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Tea is back on the menu at the Guardian

Last week the Guardian‘s food police turned their attention to tea. After the publication declared war on HP sauce in January, they have now vetoed tea. The writer Joel Golby claims that liking tea is ‘the worst possible English trait, up there with colonialism and the class system’.

All very… Guardian. Only the tea memo has yet to reach the Guardian shop, which is selling t-shirts for any of their readers who still love tea:

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Be wary before purchasing though. Mr S suspects it could be an elaborate trick to whittle out ‘undesirables’ from their readership.

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