They were also very pissed off when China started making Matcha green tea in large volumes and very cheap which had until then been sold very expensively by the Japanese because they managed to market it in the West as a fancy luxury product for bougie types.
The irony of that was that Matcha didn’t even originate in Japan but in China hundreds of years before Japan adopted it. Lol.
The even crazier thing is if you even know a little bit about tea history you would have known that matcha is basically the low quality product made for export because people can’t reserve tea leaves back then. Nobody who have accessed to full tea leaves would want to drink the grounded up mixed powder that’s just the instant coffee version of tea that is matcha (grounded tea) until people got brainwashed into thinking that’s the only type of tea you can have.
They were also very pissed off when China started making Matcha green tea in large volumes and very cheap which had until then been sold very expensively by the Japanese because they managed to market it in the West as a fancy luxury product for bougie types.
The irony of that was that Matcha didn’t even originate in Japan but in China hundreds of years before Japan adopted it. Lol.
The even crazier thing is if you even know a little bit about tea history you would have known that matcha is basically the low quality product made for export because people can’t reserve tea leaves back then. Nobody who have accessed to full tea leaves would want to drink the grounded up mixed powder that’s just the instant coffee version of tea that is matcha (grounded tea) until people got brainwashed into thinking that’s the only type of tea you can have.
It is also good as hell in a way instant coffee is not though