"Many years later Sir Winston Churchill - Prime Minister and Historian - commented on the act of Parliament that had given the East India Company a monopoly on tea. Mr. Churchill called it "a stupid blunder."
Americans have been drinking coffee ever since. The English said that the reason the Americans lost their taste for tea was that they had a peculiar way of mixing it in the salt water.
It started in the Green Dragon Tavern. If a man ordered tea, he was a Tory. If he ordered coffee, he was a Patriot."
