Once upon a time, Americans threw "British Tea" into Boston harbor as a form of protest.
However, to British people's horror, the affinity for "British Tea" may have resurfaced in the form of a cringey TikTok video.
The TikTok in question opens to two American women, who are about to share their method for making "hot tea, or 'British Tea,'" which left several Brits shaking their heads in complete and utter disgust.
Revoke the US Declaration of Independence immediately pic.twitter.com/17ZH55ZTNd
— Owen Jones says join a union🌹 (@OwenJones84) June 8, 2020
A woman microwaves a mug filled with tap water, whereas British people normally use a kettle to heat their water.
She then pours the milk into the hot water before adding the teabag, which turns the tea grey, and then adds more sugar than Mrs. Brady likes in her coffee.
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British people were immediately more horrified than they were over the Boston Tea Party.
How America makes *checks notes* 'British Tea'.
Warning: distressing scenes. pic.twitter.com/QlPrR5BSjv
— Mersey Mounty (@MerseyMounty) June 9, 2020
I am British and this is most definitely NOT how you make tea.
— Samantha Malin #FBPE (@SamanthaMalin) June 8, 2020
The Tea Butcher is back...and this time she's making 'British Tea.'
I aspire to have this level of confidence while getting absolutely everything wrong 😅
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— Camp Counselors USA (@CCUSAUK) June 8, 2020
A superb and very informative video of precisely how NOT to make tea.
— Richard Jackson (@rdjackson87) June 8, 2020
Badly made Tea.
The only thing with the power to unite British Twitter.pic.twitter.com/VKsGaESCaF
— Geoff Norcott (@GeoffNorcott) June 8, 2020
British people are so passionate about their tea that the BBC once ran a special entitled How You've Been Making Your Tea Wrong Your Entire Life.
How you've been making tea WRONG your entire life - BBCwww.youtube.com
And British Twitter is more angry than King George III was over cries of "taxation without representation."
If that is British tea I'm Donald Duck.
— Henrietta W M (@henrietta_22) June 9, 2020
the moment she put water in the mug like that i face palmed, that's not british tea pic.twitter.com/fJmkLmydMn
— 𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑒⁷ 🏳️🌈☁️♡ 𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 😡🔪 (@wangxianmoon) June 9, 2020
This is an act of war pic.twitter.com/DLsHoZVX0G
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 8, 2020
Don't they have a kettle... too much sugar... argh too much milk. What no this is not British tea!!
— Clare Mullin (@ClareM_HoP) June 9, 2020
OMG -
1. Microwaved water?
2. Milk in before the t-bag?
3. No steeping of t-bag?
You need to take that Union Jack off the Tweet.
— Toni Hargis (@ToniHargis) June 8, 2020
As the protagonist (or antagonist?) of the TikTok tea video is—according to her profile—an "American living in the UK," we think she best keep an eye on her doorstep to make sure an angry British mob has not formed.
