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Re:The Invention of the AeroPress by cmelbye on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:08PM (#7619372)
Electric kettles are not very common, which is probably easy to believe considering the higher popularity of coffee than tea here.
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Re:The Invention of the AeroPress by protomyth on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:42PM (#7619481)
Yep, the stats in the US heavily favor coffee since around the time of the revolution. In certain places, it was unpatriotic to drink hot tea. About 85% of tea is iced in the US[1].

1) http://www.teausa.com/14655/tea-fact-sheet

ps: the fact sheet in 1 seems to be the basis of a whole lot of magazine articles. It seems like "tea facts" is quite the fill-in article.

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