Tea in 40k

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**Sgt_Smudge**

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.

Yeah, I've not seen this? Could you provide a little more evidence, I'm not sure if I've missed something.

**General Annoyance**

Sgt_Smudge wrote:
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.

Yeah, I've not seen this? Could you provide a little more evidence, I'm not sure if I've missed something.

I can assure you that it doesn't exist at all in that game, if anywhere; I do happen to be able to recite practically every piece of dialogue that happens in the story, because of multiple playthroughs and photographic memory.

The only thing I can think of is the audio logs. I found all of them but 3, and I doubt those 3 would really contain such a blatant real life reference in them.

If they do, it's time for playthrough no.6

**CommanderRednaxela**

General Annoyance wrote:
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.

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Perhaps I am mistaken then.

As a Canadian (who lives in America) I know tea is isn't just the British (though Canada still does recognize the Queen...)

**nareik**

On Catachan Death World the tea drinks you!

**JamesY**

Baldeagle91 wrote:

But yes Albyon (british isles) is one of the warring states during the unification wars.

Indeed, and from those isles the first warriors for the dusk raiders where recruited, who went on to become the death guard. And you know what the first thing we English do when feeling a bit peeky? Get the kettle on...

Mortarion has the tea, those aren't incense censers hanging from his belt

**Raven911**

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

Which begs the question, do the liquorice flavored cigars really exist? I've search everywhere and can't find any...

**Anfauglir**

Raven911 wrote:
Anfauglir wrote:
I know in Abnettverse there's tea/coffee (caffeine), smokes (Iho sticks), liquor (sacra) and even liquorice flavoured cigars!

Which begs the question, do the liquorice flavored cigars really exist? I've search everywhere and can't find any...

I faintly remember Rizler doing liquorice rolling paper, but that would have been for cigarettes. I may be wrong as I'm not a smoker and have never smoked, but I think liquorice extract (a root extract, I think?) can be used as an addative for cigars, but not for any flavouring properties. Perhaps Dan heard of this and thought it made them liquorice-flavoured? Or maybe he knows they don't but made his fictional ones flavoured anyway, I don't know.

Any connoisseur of the ol' blunts around here? I'm sure they could shed some proper light on this for you.

**Jehan-reznor**

Not a Tea drinker but a can of custodian coffee* gets me going during the day!

*Only marines survive more than 3 cans a day!

**Spetulhu**

Anfauglir wrote:
I faintly remember Rizler doing liquorice rolling paper, but that would have been for cigarettes. I may be wrong as I'm not a smoker and have never smoked, but I think liquorice extract (a root extract, I think?) can be used as an addative for cigars, but not for any flavouring properties.

Not raw liquorice directly but you can use liquors or spirits like anisette or ouzo to flavor a cigar. I'm sure "real" cigar aficionados are greatly offended at such a barbaric practice if you do this to anything worth more than a couple of bucks. :-)

Another way of flavoring (maybe not real cigars but at least smaller cigarillos) would also be using a wooden tube as a cigar holder. Infuse that one with some taste and see what happens.

**Gulgog TufToof**

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is no time for tea, there is only eternal war!

**Elbows**

Even dirty space elves have tea. Thirianna is mentioned drinking some Eldar type of tea (forget the name of the plant/tree mentioned) in her apartment in Path of the Seer.

**Anfauglir**

Gulgog TufToof wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is no time for tea, there is only eternal war!

Why do you think the Imperium was founded and set out to conquer the galaxy and cause eternal war in the first place? Terra ran out of teabags. War amongst the stars was the only choice.

The drinker must awaken! The tea must flow!

**General Annoyance**

Anfauglir wrote:
The drinker must awaken! The tea must flow!

Khorne will be very unimpressed when he realises a whole load of the "blood" that the galaxy has spilled has actually been accidents involving strawberry infusions at afternoon meetings

**AndrewC**

Ketara wrote:

Sorry to be picky, but no that button doesn't start the kettle. It's an Apache. It's American and it doesn't have a BV.

Cheers

Andrew

**General Annoyance**

AndrewC wrote:
Ketara wrote:

Sorry to be picky, but no that button doesn't start the kettle. It's an Apache. It's American and it doesn't have a BV.

Cheers

Andrew

It might be - the British army do have their own modified version of the Longbow, after all

**TheLumberJack**

Elbows wrote:
Even dirty space elves have tea. Thirianna is mentioned drinking some Eldar type of tea (forget the name of the plant/tree mentioned) in her apartment in Path of the Seer.

Eldar have apartments?

**DeffDred**

amazingturtles wrote:
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

I'll get right on that!

**Elbows**

TheLumberJack wrote:
Elbows wrote:
Even dirty space elves have tea. Thirianna is mentioned drinking some Eldar type of tea (forget the name of the plant/tree mentioned) in her apartment in Path of the Seer.

Eldar have apartments?

Yep. Lofted ceiling, garden tub, full walk-in closets. Only 865 square feet though (doesn't include the balcony).

**TheLumberJack**

Elbows wrote:
TheLumberJack wrote:
Elbows wrote:
Even dirty space elves have tea. Thirianna is mentioned drinking some Eldar type of tea (forget the name of the plant/tree mentioned) in her apartment in Path of the Seer.

Eldar have apartments?

Yep. Lofted ceiling, garden tub, full walk-in closets. Only 865 square feet though (doesn't include the balcony).

Wonder what rent is?

**nareik**

TheLumberJack wrote:
Elbows wrote:
TheLumberJack wrote:
Elbows wrote:
Even dirty space elves have tea. Thirianna is mentioned drinking some Eldar type of tea (forget the name of the plant/tree mentioned) in her apartment in Path of the Seer.

Eldar have apartments?

Yep. Lofted ceiling, garden tub, full walk-in closets. Only 865 square feet though (doesn't include the balcony).

Wonder what rent is?

The rent is long overdue and is to be paid to She Who Thirsts (for tea apparently).

**amazingturtles**

I'm learning so much and i love it

this is all canon in my head. all of it

**RaiGreySteel**

Does that mean a lot of British traditions is implemented throughout the Imperium or the 40k universe? Also assuming that Humanity during the Millenniums probably before the fall and the decay of the Imperium has probably mixed culturally given the fact that the world in the 21st Century is already embracing other cultures. Would other traditions from other Country also exist?

**nareik**

The Imperium is post Brexit. It is all Whippets and Gold Blend now.

**Ynneadwraith**

nareik wrote:
The Imperium is post Brexit. It is all Whippets and Gold Blend now.

I cannot exalt this enough!

**oldzoggy**

Does anyone know more of "Solian Tea"

**Snake Tortoise**

Let the galaxy burn! *sips tea*

I'm curious about eating and drinking in 40k. Most of what I've read is HH and the only parts I remember with food/drink were primarchs drinking fine wines/spirits, and Space Wolves drinking beer

**nareik**

There was a Space Marine chapter that specialised in wine. I think it might have been in the omnibus.

**TheLumberJack**

Snake Tortoise wrote:
Let the galaxy burn! *sips tea*

I'm curious about eating and drinking in 40k. Most of what I've read is HH and the only parts I remember with food/drink were primarchs drinking fine wines/spirits, and Space Wolves drinking beer

I've always wondered this, what do people in this universe eat?

**Ynneadwraith**

Apparently the Grox (a sort of semi-reptilian cow-like creature) is common as a beast of burden and source of food, so probably Grox steaks and burgers would be common.

Other than that, probably various different types of staple food crop that can be grown en-masse: grains, rice etc.

They'd likely be heavily genetically altered from the crops we'd recognise today. We've already started genetically altering food crops in M3. I'd expect it would be commonplace in M41.

Saying that, there's a whole galaxy full of different worlds with alien life. What people eat probably varies massively between continents on a world, let alone between worlds themselves.

**TheLumberJack**

Ynneadwraith wrote:
Apparently the Grox (a sort of semi-reptilian cow-like creature) is common as a beast of burden and source of food, so probably Grox steaks and burgers would be common.

Other than that, probably various different types of staple food crop that can be grown en-masse: grains, rice etc.

They'd likely be heavily genetically altered from the crops we'd recognise today. We've already started genetically altering food crops in M3. I'd expect it would be commonplace in M41.

Saying that, there's a whole galaxy full of different worlds with alien life. What people eat probably varies massively between continents on a world, let alone between worlds themselves.

Yeah I've read about Grox. Orks eat squigs. I imagine humans eat very basic diets. Marines eat whatever. Eldar probably eat fancy food. Tau no clue. Nids eat everything