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Britain Confronts Fears of a (Gasp!) Tea Shortage (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave to c/world

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Shipping issues in the Red Sea have led to delays in tea deliveries, but British retailers assured consumers that any shortages would be a “blip.”

For a country of morning-and-night tea drinkers, even the suggestion of a shortage of the household staple can elicit a nervous gulp.

So there might have been more than a few people spooked when signs in some Sainsbury’s grocery stores this week warned customers that supply issues had affected the “nationwide” availability of black tea, as Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea caused shipping delays.

Yorkshire Tea and Tetley Tea, two of the most popular tea companies in Britain, said in statements that they were monitoring the situation to ensure they could maintain supplies of black tea, but that orders were being fulfilled.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Skydaddy group attacks ships, ships have to avoid area, cargo arrives late. 21st century news.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit more complicated than that, the skydaddy group is attacking ships because another skydaddy group is massacring people because another skydaddy group killed another bunch of people because another skydaddy group took their land because...

[–] afraid_of_zombies 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Weren't the skydaddy daddy group attacking ships prior to the other skydaddy groups murdering each other over a hunk of fucking desert?

[–] SinningStromgald 5 points 9 months ago

You will have to be more specific on what year this skydaddy fighting happened but probably, certainly, yes.

Deserts and that one place everyone's skydaddy did something awesome so they all say they should own it and absolutely can not share it, like reasonable adults should be able to, are favorite things to fight over in the name of skydaddy.