Tea Once Called "Uncontrollable Drug That Destroys Families" in Ireland

In the 19 century the Irish ruling classes fretted over the prospect of working class women making cups of tea for themselves.

It seems laughable now but housewives were once frowned upon for making too much of it, a Durham University academic discovered whilst researching the tea drinking habits of the Irish poor over a hundred years ago.

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