A nice big breakfast sounds good! Especially since it's 4:30 PM. And now, after all that coffee glugging, to give tea some equal time:

Tea was first described to Europeans by sixteenth-century Venetian traders. Portuguese merchants and Jesuit priests shipped tea from China along their newly charted sea routes.

Dutch seafarers were the first to take on the Portuguese for the tea trade, but eventually the British East India Company dominated tea importation to Europe. Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese Infanta and wife of Charles II of England, is credited with hooking the British on tea with the leaves she brought in her dowry. She is also credited with initiating the ritual of the tea party.

Hooked doesn't begin to describe the habits of Samuel Johnson, who daily downed thirty to forty cups, calling himself "a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning."

Elmer