For many years the scramble for refreshments at railway stations was one of the central rituals of New Zealand life. In 1946 the Refreshment Branch served more than nine million travellers. It was hard work for the staff, who had to deal with a huge rush of customers in a matter of minutes.
New Zealand has turned from a primarily tea-drinking country to a mainly coffee-drinking country, although tea still remains popular. It was around the 1980s that coffee and tea consumption was about even at 2 kilograms per person. Since then coffee has overtaken tea – partly due to the growth of a café culture over the 1990s.
Source: Ray Bailey and Mary Earle, Home cooking to takeaways: changes in food consumption in New Zealand during 1880–1990. Palmerston North: Massey University, 1993. p. 250
Personally, the smell of tea brings me back memories of the first time I tasted it. It's extremely vivid.
A thing that has been reoccuring is the importance of tea in NZ history.
- Edmund Hillary had tea in his pack whilst climbing Everest (amongst other things)
- Walter Bolton (the last person to be executed in NZ) was convicted for supposedly poisoning his wife's tea over time. There is still doubt on his guilt.
- Labour day and the fight for a tea break.
- Importance of tea during war rations.
New Zealand has turned from a primarily tea-drinking country to a mainly coffee-drinking country, although tea still remains popular. It was around the 1980s that coffee and tea consumption was about even at 2 kilograms per person. Since then coffee has overtaken tea – partly due to the growth of a café culture over the 1990s.
Source: Ray Bailey and Mary Earle, Home cooking to takeaways: changes in food consumption in New Zealand during 1880–1990. Palmerston North: Massey University, 1993. p. 250
Personally, the smell of tea brings me back memories of the first time I tasted it. It's extremely vivid.
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