Drinking a herbal tea in many parts of the world is a crime considered next to treason. So Why Are Herbal Teas So Popular?

Why Are Herbal Teas So Popular?

Drinking a herbal tea in many parts of the world is a crime considered next to treason. I have unending arguments with a friend in the UK who thinks anything but a black tea should be sunk in Boston Harbor. And really, in most places of the world, herbal teas are more a less a "non-entity," if they even exist at all.
Yet, here in the USA, herbal teas rule. Why is that? I have no clue. But I can take a few guesses.
First, tea is a rather "late-comer" to the USA. While it's been the worldwide drink for centuries, coffee and "other things" tend to be the beverage of choice in the USA. Tea is fast gaining popularity, but it has a very long way to go before overcoming the popularity of coffee and such.
Perhaps because of this, herbal teas caught on in the US long before traditional green tea or traditional black tea did. Many American's view traditional teas as a "coffee replacement," something that a coffee addicted America was slow to embrace. By contrast, herbal teas have long been considered something to "try" for one reason or another, and NOT as a beverage of choice.
In other words...coffee in the USA is the main beverage of choice. And herbal teas sort of fill in the "void" for new, unique, different, wild and exotic tastes.
And this last sentence brings us back to the second reason herbal teas are so popular in the USA...they can taste however you like them to be. You see...most Americans tend to have a sweet-tooth and/or like what most of the world would consider "odd and wild things." Let's face it...no matter how hard you try, there is only so much you can do with a green, black or oolong tea to make them taste "sweet" or to have a "wild and exotic taste," especially if the tea itself is a loose-leaf tea, not a bagged one.
This problem is neatly avoided, of course, by ditching the tea leaves altogether. Thus...instead of adding in peppermint leaves to a black tea (a REAL nasty combination by the way) to create a "flavored peppermint black tea," you can create a super-sweet tea that tastes like a peppermint lifesaver simply by adding in peppermint leaves and leaving the black tea leaves out. Oh yeah...by ditching the black tea leaves altogether, the tea is easier and less expesnsive to make too...another trademark American tradition.

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