Coffee for Tea?

[Garmard]

When did coffee and tea become a fashionable commodity in Britain?

[boxtops]

If you look at the tea caddies on sale on the Antiques Roadshow, tea was valuable when it first came here - rich people locked it up in the caddies so the staff couldn't steal it.

[Garmard]

Fashionable RoaldoM....I know coffee houses started springing up in London during the late 17th Century, but yes i mean fashionable.
Thanks, Garmard.

[heathfield]

Strangely, coffee and tea became popular before it became fashionable! For tea, see...

http://www.britainexp...ry/tea-in-britain.htm

and for coffee...

http://www.realcoffee...sp?Cat=history&page=3

[Garmard]

Thanks for your help.

Phil