Flapjacks and Tea
Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break? Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.
At first tea was very expensive – as much as £26 for a pound of tea, when wages were as little as £6 per year.
It was expensive because it took so long to arrive by sea from China or India and because the government put a high tax on it.