On: On Having Enough Socks (2019)

[throwaheyy]

They might not drink tea much for having dumped all their kettles into the Boston Harbor back in 1773 or something.

[yamtaddle → throwaheyy]

What's funny is the people who were mad about it were tea importers, not tea drinkers. British policy on tea in the US [EDIT, er, the American colonies, that is] lowered prices, a lot, which ruined the profit margins of importers/smugglers.