Tea in 40k

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**CommanderRednaxela**

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I am pretty sure in the game SM someone said that Britian was the last surviving country (concidednce that most 40k players are British) and as an avid tea-drinker, and 40k (fanatic religous) nerd, I had to know, does the Imperium drink tea. Mainly curious on whether Guardsman (mainly Cadia) can drink tea. Do they still have it, Emperor forbid it's been lost in time? And would the Guard be allowed to drink it (being the cannon fodder they are). If you question why I ask, I have one thing to say: when the Imperium comes to our lost world, I must be sure that I can continue to drink tea until the last battle in which I shall serve (probably the first...)

Ok maybe I sound slightly insane, maybe I wrote this completly wrong(but yes tea in 40k is correct), and maybe I've had one too many cups of tea, but I must know.

Edit: No one in SM said Britian was the last country, I am just going mad...

**Engine of War**

Probably.

There is nothing saying they don't anywhere. For all we know there could be whole planets that drink it. As for guard. They have a coffee kind of stuff (Recaff or something) which is watered down due to its mass use but I would imagine the higher up you go the better the stuff you go. So Officers could drink tea. Its not impossible.

If you think of it. There is a chance somewhere in the galaxy its there. Its a really big galaxy after all.

**Avatar 720**

Recaf is pretty much a catch-all for tea and coffee, but official descriptions of it--crushed and brewed leaves--are closer to tea. As for actual specific teas, they might still exist, though would likely be a luxury for nobles who can afford them.

**SomeRandomEvilGuy**

Best thread ever.

But yeah there's probably still tea or at least similar alien/mutated plants.

**amazingturtles**

so it isn't the most grim dark vision of the future at all!

There's still tea. there's still tea.

Now i want art of an ork sipping his cup while fighting a space marine

**Anfauglir**

I know in Abnettverse there's tea/coffee (caffeine), smokes (Iho sticks), liquor (sacra) and even liquorice flavoured cigars!

**swcorwyn**

The Valhallans regularly drink Tanna tea. Mentioned all throughout the Commisar Cain series.

**Mudrat**

Completely unrelated, but what was that fluff about Britan being the last country? As an aussie, very curious.

**oldzoggy**

Sure they have tea, but as a rule it has to be grim dark somehow. So just don't ask what it is made of.

**CommanderRednaxela**

Mudrat wrote:
Completely unrelated, but what was that fluff about Britan being the last country? As an aussie, very curious.

Space marine, the game.

The Valhallans regularly drink Tanna tea. Mentioned all throughout the Commisar Cain series.

Well, that is a relief.

Well, thank the Emperor there is tea.

**zedmeister**

Mudrat wrote:
Completely unrelated, but what was that fluff about Britan being the last country? As an aussie, very curious.

Perhaps its from back in Rogue Trader when they refer to a place called Birmingham, a desolate backwater that nobody ever visits

**jhe90**

Tea... Theres tea I'm Cain series.

Tea survived. Humanity may yet have hope!

**Iron_Captain**

40k is British. Of course there will be tea.
In the Grim Darkness of the far future, there is only war. Except for when it is tea time.

**wuestenfux**

Beer seems to be confirmed by SW.
I'm sure that some caffeine will be served in the 40k universe.

**alanmckenzie**

CommanderRednaxela wrote:

The Valhallans regularly drink Tanna tea. Mentioned all throughout the Commisar Cain series.
Well, that is a relief.

Well, thank the Emperor there is tea.

Thank goodness.

A grim dark future where there is only war just became a little bit more survivable.

A universe without tea is a universe I want no part of.

**Galef**

wuestenfux wrote:
Beer seems to be confirmed by SW.
I'm sure that some caffeine will be served in the 40k universe.

Kinda makes you wonder if the GW writers imposed traits onto any particular SM chapter to represent their views on Americans?
If Ultramarines are rule-following "proper" British Space marines, does that mean Space Wolves are the rebellious wild spirited Americans who drink lots of beer (masked in Norse/Viking like mythos)?
Or would they be more like the Scots/Irish?

**AnomanderRake**

Galef wrote:
wuestenfux wrote:
Beer seems to be confirmed by SW.
I'm sure that some caffeine will be served in the 40k universe.

Kinda makes you wonder if the GW writers imposed traits onto any particular SM chapter to represent their views on Americans?
If Ultramarines are rule-following "proper" British Space marines, does that mean Space Wolves are the rebellious wild spirited Americans who drink lots of beer (masked in Norse/Viking like mythos)?
Or would they be more like the Scots/Irish?

Or could they just be Vikings?

(Speaking of which where are we getting 'proper British Space Marines' out of the Ultramarines? They always seemed more classical Greco-Roman to me.)

**Aben Zin**

Closest to being British are, of course, the Praetorians. And the Orks (especially at about pub closing time on match nights).

**Baldeagle91**

CommanderRednaxela wrote:
Space marine, the game.

Really?

when do they mention it?

Even then the Kingdom of Urartu was the last to fall to the emperor. But yes Albyon (british isles) is one of the warring states during the unification wars.

**TheLumberJack**

I imagine things like tea and coffee still exist. I'm sure all races have something like it as well, except nids

**CommanderRednaxela**

And the Orks (especially at about pub closing time on match nights).

HERESY!!

**RandyMcStab**

This is why I like forums

**Ynneadwraith**

Galef wrote:
wuestenfux wrote:
Beer seems to be confirmed by SW.
I'm sure that some caffeine will be served in the 40k universe.

Kinda makes you wonder if the GW writers imposed traits onto any particular SM chapter to represent their views on Americans?
If Ultramarines are rule-following "proper" British Space marines, does that mean Space Wolves are the rebellious wild spirited Americans who drink lots of beer (masked in Norse/Viking like mythos)?
Or would they be more like the Scots/Irish?

Seems more Scots/Irish to me...

I'm not certain they'd sell many models basing a faction on the stereotype of Americans we have. I'm fairly certain it's not particularly flattering*...

*not meaning anything by that, just that stereotypes are stereotypes. Apparently we have bad teeth or something

**Aben Zin**

Ynneadwraith wrote:

*not meaning anything by that, just that stereotypes are stereotypes. Apparently we have bad teeth or something

See? Orks!
The closest America gets are Deathwing Terminators (and I guess Ratskins in Necromunda). Native Americans though, rather than ...uh, not native Americans?

**amazingturtles**

oldzoggy wrote:
Sure they have tea, but as a rule it has to be grim dark somehow. So just don't ask what it is made of.

oh, i got it! They have tea, but it's like... that really cheap off-brand kind that they sell in american gas stations. that's the only kind you can get.

GRIMDARK

**Arktyranus**

There's still tea, mostly for the officers, just look at White Dwarf (Tea and Crumpets for me!) Also, the future is nice. Except they'll make sure it's grim dark. I guess no Earl Gray.

**Captain Joystick**

CommanderRednaxela wrote:
Mudrat wrote:
Completely unrelated, but what was that fluff about Britan being the last country? As an aussie, very curious.
Space marine, the game.

Not calling you out or anything, but I've played that game pretty intensely on PS3 and PC... and don't recall anything of the sort.

**Ketara**

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tanna

Tanna is a leafy plant native to the underground ice caverns of Valhalla. The planet's native inhabitants use the leaves to brew a tea[1], which is traditionally served in bowls[2].

Commissar Ciaphas Cain, who spent most of his active service career assigned to Valhallan Imperial Guard Regiments, developed a liking for the beverage, describing it as fragant, and with a "faintly bitter aftertaste" that he enjoyed[3].

Valhallan Guard regiments enjoy tanna so much that their Chimera troop transports are traditionally modified to carry a samovar to brew and dispense the beverage, even en route to a battle zone.[5]

Few non-Valhallans seemed able to tolerate the beverage, as Cain conceded to fellow Commissar Tomas Beije that it was "a bit of an acquired taste."[4] Inquisitor Amberley Vail, after sampling it for the first and only time in her long association with Cain, euphemistically described its flavour as "distinctive."[1] Likewise, when Cain described its flavour as "delicate" in his memoirs, Vail sardonically compared the use of the adjective to describing a Baneblade tank as "dainty."[6]

Copied from real life, funnily enough. Every British tank since the Centurion in 1945 carries a kettle.

**General Annoyance**

CommanderRednaxela wrote:
Mudrat wrote:
Completely unrelated, but what was that fluff about Britan being the last country? As an aussie, very curious.
Space marine, the game.

Absolute nonsense; as a Brit I'm sure I would've noticed that in the 5 times I played through the Space Marine campaign.

However, I would say that absolutely tea will exist in 40k - it's just various herbs and plant matter mixed with hot water. It certainly won't taste like a good ol' English Breakfast brew, but I'd put money on almost every world in the Imperium having some kind of botanical they'd make tea with.

Also you guys know tea isn't just a British thing, right? Pretty much every country outside of the Americas consumes or grows more tea than coffee - hell tea was never a thing in Britain until the colonials started importing it from Ceylon, and we still get most of our tea from Sri Lanka to this day.

**Ynneadwraith**

amazingturtles wrote:
oldzoggy wrote:
Sure they have tea, but as a rule it has to be grim dark somehow. So just don't ask what it is made of.

oh, i got it! They have tea, but it's like... that really cheap off-brand kind that they sell in american gas stations. that's the only kind you can get.

GRIMDARK

Oh God! it's worse than I expected.

It's tea, but the stuff they sell from machines in polystyrene cups that's either 50% milk or inexplicable dark and bitter.

I don't know why humanity fights anymore...