It all started with a video of an American woman in the UK demonstrating to users on social media platform TikTok how to make “hot tea”.
“Michelle from North Carolina” mixes a third of a cup of milk with orange Tang, powdered lemonade, cinnamon and cloves before adding copious amounts of sugar, explaining that is how “this American girl likes it”. She then dunks in a Lipton teabag and puts the mixture in the microwave.
The video quickly went viral as shocked Britons expressed their horror, both at the bizarre recipe and her use of a microwave. Davina McCall went so far as to brand it “a call to war.”
On Monday, the Transatlantic tiff escalated to diplomatic level, after Karen Pierce, the UK’s ambassador to the US, stepped in to explain how to make an “authentic brew”.
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