>What plant has been consumed since 2737 BC and is still popular
>in most of the world, can be grown in most of the US but few people
>grow it? This plant motivated England to go to war and is now gaining
>popularity as a healing herb.
>
>Many plants contain tanic acid, is this the same as tannins?
I'd have guessed that you were suggesting the opium poppy, since
(1) everybody grows it
(2) USA magazines often refer to its illegality in that country
(3) Britain waged the Opium Wars against China.
But then the next paragraph...
Tannin is what is in tea and grapes, and gives these a bitter taste, and
yet not in poppies I think, so perhaps it is one of the former two you are
thinking of. Britain and France have been at war for most of their
existence, so grapes would be my second guess, except I cannot think of any
references to grape leaves as a healing herb, just an edible. I think herbs
are always leaves and/or flowers, eh? (So grapes as such would not count.)
Tea is the third possible answer to your question that I have come up with.
The only reason for tea to even be a candidate for answering such a
question is the way ihat references to 'tea' are embedded in the mythology
surrounding the founding of the USA. Tea is such an ordinary beverage for
the rest of us, that I suspect this may be what you sought as an answer,
and that you are trying to illustrate your theory concerning
emotionally-charged words.
Terry J. Klokeid, Ph.D.
Amblewood Organic Farm
Fulford Harbour BC
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