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.
The tax on tea even started a war between England and America . America was then part of the British Empire and ruled by England . The Americans did not like the tax they had to pay on tea coming from England and in 1773 threw 340 chests of tea overboard in Boston – the famous Boston Tea Party. This was one of the causes of the American War of Independence.