Everybody is probably at the top of a leaderboard for some very niche thing.
Considering how much tea some people drink, the person who’s actually #1 probably knows they’re in the top 10, surely.
How do we define it? The volume of liquid, or the weight of tea used for brewing?
I’ve seen to many people drinking what’s closer to milky brackish water than a tea
That’s true, and people steep it for varying lengths of time. Can such a thing be measured?
I’d argue yes. What people care about more is minimum steep time and minimum leaves by weight per mL water. You can use the brew ratio for this to actually define your tea to a standard like black tea. Though you’d have to define brew ratio which I trust the British to do.
After you define those things though, you’d probably measure the amount of liquid and kind of ignore the weight of the tea and steep time, so long as they go over the minimum per serving. Unless you want to argue that adding more leaves/steep time means that you’re consuming more tea, which seems wrong.
Can confirm. I drank basically nothing but sweet tea from the ages of like 10 until I was in my mid twenties, only supplementing with mountain dew.
Yes, I am diabetic, and my teeth have suffered. I drink almost exclusively water now. But Jesus, if you grew up in the south in the 90s and 00s, I don’t remember anyone but my mom ever drinking water, and even she drank almost exclusively coke.
The teaderboard
The world leader is probably a 700 pound woman in Alabama drinking sweet tea. You can get type 2 just by being in a room with her.
