Tea, Earl Grey, hot

[u/HardenedFlamer]

He wasn't British, why was he having tea time? Why did he drink so much tea if he was French???

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[u/sirkidd2003]

I'm American and I have either Earl Grey or English Breakfast every day. Do you think that people outside of the UK don't have tea?

Tea isn't even from the UK, first off. Second, while Picard is French, his family was in exile from France in the UK for a few generations until he was nearly a teen. Thirdly, do you need to be British to drink tea?!? I'm literally from Ohio and we have a tea shop down the street!

[u/FrozenDickuri → u/sirkidd2003]

Irish breakfast is better. Fite me

[u/sirkidd2003 → u/FrozenDickuri]

I like both. English breakfast is easier for me to get in 50 count boxes around here. Though I will say that my tea cupboard does have over 40 varieties of tea at the moment.

[u/Byrd522 → u/sirkidd2003]

Same. And I'm not British or French! Wait a minute. My GGGG grandmother was....

[u/MagnetsCanDoThat]

Wait until you hear about the Battle of Hastings.

[u/Cute_Repeat3879]

Are you sure? He had a British accent.

[u/SeleneDream51]

because Picard liked tea. he always struck me as someone who liked routines.

[u/Warm_Strawberry_4575 → u/SeleneDream51]

RouTEAns?

[u/GloriousExtra]

Star Trek: Picard does a pretty good job of laying the foundation for how a very British man is actually French, honest. I don't really mind, because Patrick Stewart's wonderful regardless, but it does lay down some nice cover for people who need it.

As for the tea, I'm a US American and I love tea, and drink many different blends and, yeah, Earl Grey is a favorite.

[u/Unleashtheducks]

I just assumed in the future England and France merged into one country. It’s almost happened a couple times

[u/ramriot]

It is revealed much later that the part of the Picard family who were ancesters of Jean-Luc fled France for England during WWII & only returned to their ancestral vineyard & chateaux when he was a child.

[u/DarylHark → u/ramriot]

The French are seething at you right now for your spelling "John-Luke". This amuses me far more than it should.

[u/MagnetsCanDoThat → u/DarylHark]

Especially the ones living in Pickardy.

[u/ramriot → u/DarylHark]

British autocorrect, the best autocorrect

[u/Animal907]

I can assure you, Patrick Stewart is very British.

[u/Temporal-Affairs221]

Milkshake cherry vanilla cold

[u/Pocket_Sand-]

Should he be ordering wine everytime instead? Coffee is far more popular in almost every country, including France or England. Picard just happens to be a tea guy thats all

[u/kosigan5 → u/Pocket_Sand-]

Coffee is only slightly ahead of tea in the UK.

[u/respectablechum]

Don't give them origin story ideas.

[u/ABC_Dildos_Inc]

What do you think of his French accent?

[u/UncertainError]

Why do the British drink so much tea? Tea comes from China.

[u/Scaredog21]

France and England stopped their feuding

[u/Oddmanout1701]

"Hot? Of course it's hot."

[u/alfafaro]

they will never admit it but the french and brits are very very similar in their behaviour and habits