Source: Neatorama
When Tunisians started to become obsessed with drinking tea in the 1920s and 1930s, some French doctors had become alarmed that it might cause the collapse of Tunisian society. Today, the drink is still quite popular and locals often drink it many times a day. This was the reason why the French feared the tea craze back then:
French publications named this phenomenon “teaism,” a medical diagnosis that had already been established in the 19th century, and ascribed it, somewhat bizarrely, both to an…
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