 What does an angry pepper do, Corbin? What? Gets halla pain in your face! Josh! Hey, welcome back to our YouTube Directs with Corbin. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Thanks for watching, follow us through the comments because I have the like button. Today we have a video that's from a channel called... Nimar Belay, and if that's mispronounced, my apologies. It's, why do Indians drink so much chai? That's a good question. My wife drinks it twice a day, minimum. Twice a day, I make her chai. That's probably much less than she drank in India. Yeah, but it's different, though, because when you get it, as you know, from a chai stall, you're getting it in a little cup. And so I make her about twice that. It's one of my favorite things to do, is to make her chai in the morning. And then afternoon, she's always mid-afternoon. She's always wanting another cup of chai. Or cha, as it's lovingly referred to in Bengal. My thought is... Blame the British. That's my thought, too. My suspicion is their tea time became India's tea time. Yup, here we go. A land of culture, a land of 1.8 billion people, or a land of 1.8 billion... Chai drink. It's a drugs, man. Nice joke. This is something far more dangerous. Far more important, and far more... Addictive. Oh, yes. Because this man who hasn't gotten this drink yet, so attached that he will remain in that same place until the moment that he gets his first hit. My day can't start without it, can it? At least three times. What is this wonder drug? How did it ever come to us? How did it grip an entire nation that don't hear us? Everybody's mouth at 4 p.m. in the evening are without a doubt, always. Dude, two tea. That's funny. Like the intro. Good animation. Einstein and Hitler bopping together. It's no secret that we Indians really love tea. I mean, we even named one of our most famous monuments after tea. There are more tea stalls per unit area than unit areas. Every time a new street is built, a new tea store is already there. It's like when you buy a new android phone and MX Takata guy has already pre-installed on it. You didn't ask for it, but it's there. Samsung, connecting people. Do what you say. I'm loving this. In fact, scientists at Israel have actually said the real reason that India has not yet gone to the moon is because there's no gravity, so you can't do the water. That's funny. Sure. And sometimes people ask this stupid question. Are you like a tea person or a coffee person? And that is stupid. Because once you date someone, you drink coffee. Because where do you go? You go to a coffee shop. But once you break up, you are at a tea stall drinking tea and crying to your homies. Did he leave you? Like cricket. First we added milk. Then we added masala. Then we made it kadak even though it's liquid because fuck physics. Fuck principles of fluid mechanics. Let's see what am I crying there. So we don't even know how this beverage comes into our masala-infested stomachs. It's a story involving the Chinese Empire, the East India Company, and a shrewd bartender who in that world, who in that in an inadvertently became a secret agent. Can I just say became Tom Cruise is that okay? Ooh, don't do that. This party started. I like it. I did. We are not making any of this up. India has the largest tea drinking population in the world. Not a shock. I can largest tea grower in the world. Second only to China. But you know it's quality. Guys clearly that's a joke. India does not endorse defaming a country, especially sovereign ones. The patterns about tea drinkers which was found by the Tea Board of India which I assume looks like this. No, not this. No, not this. No, none of these. Anyway, we are going to present this in the format of Quick Facts. What happened? Too quick for you? I'll ask this in some of these tests. You see the story of how we got to the stage in advanced tea consumption is a story that begins like most stories with us. with the British. Hey! He was honest and tea was being grown in China. In England it was this very exclusive high class commodity. They got addicted. Nice. Tea was considered so much that in 1662 when King Charles II married the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, this person, it's accurate guess. He heard doubt, he consisted of a chest of tea and the island of Bombay for an annual lease of 10 pounds. Equivalent then to the cost of one pound of tea in England. Let me put that in perspective for you. The city of Mumbai where I can't afford a one BHK for myself was considered equal to this. The fuck! Can you imagine if this went down in India today? On the news channel. On the news channel. On the news channel. On the news channel. On the news channel. Chennai. Bangalore. Bangalore is hot. Let's have a cup of tea. I was told because of Oh! 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Over 2,000 plus job opportunities in 300 plus recruiting companies including Hyundai, Capgemini and HCL. That's actually pretty cool. I know and you should check out our website. Use the link in the description so that you can get a 15% off on all the courses and a free career counseling session. By the 18th century, there was a war between the English and the Dutch and England's resources were really getting depleted. So the English were unable to afford the silver that they were trading with China to get the tea. And apart from that, China was uninterested in anything that Britain was offering. I think we should just be friends. She rejected me, man. Until they discovered something that China did want. Drugs. You see this? Britain started growing opium in India and smuggled it to China and returned for tea. For tea. But China literally had a war and an opioid epidemic because of this. And who sold them the opium? The British literally grew drugs in our backyard because they wanted some chai-tang. I don't know why though. Worth it. Guys, he's clearly joking again. That's the better cost. All backgrounds of India. Hey, can I use your backpack for a while? Why would I let you do that? How long have you been friends? This is how you treat me. Okay, okay, fine. I mean, okay, I mean you could although you really work on it now, like slaves, please. But you need it. It's your back, so you only have to work on it now. Silly fellow. Hey, come on, work on it. This is classic culture. Hey, after the charter act of 1833, you don't need to know what that is. All you need to know is that the East India Company lost its trade monopoly to China, so they stopped it. That means they weren't the only ones exclusively trading and their trade relations basically failed. To deal with this, the tea committee was established. Yes, another government institution for tea was established a year later to extract tea seeds, techniques and resources from the Chinese. The mission though was not quite successful. Basically, this is an example in British desperation. They will do anything for tea at this point. Invade continents, grow drugs, all for Chai Chai. How was that? Now the famous quote, fortune favors white people. At the end, the British got their way. And how they did it is actually the story of Doom. In 1843, Robert Fortune, a Scottish horticulturalist, yes, that is also a profession that you can pursue after BTEC. He went on, as we call it, Solotip. To China to study its tea plantations. Three years later, he returned and consequently published the book on the same. And we have a manuscript of it in our office. Let me show it to you. Now to get a job with the East India Company is very difficult. Why do you think that you are the perfect man for this job? I killed in all this robbery, thievery. Since childhood, I was one of the KD fellows. Please take this. They actually hired him on the spot, gave the amazed man 500 pounds per annum. He was set to perform the great British tea heist. From the British at this point, I found that Vigilante. Vigilante. Yes! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And to remind you guys, his name was literally Rob Fortune. Like, speechless. Talk about being born for a role. He was Rob people's fortune. And if he was going to sneak into China, he needed it. So what did he do? He went to Tirupati. No, but actually, he shaved his head in order to blend in with the other Chinese monks. Am I fitting in? After an exhausting three month expedition, Rob returned to Shanghai from the estates and he wrote to his employers informing them of the following. Machan, I got the greens. Okay, that may be a little alter. The actual message reads as, I have much pleasure in informing your hero that I have procured a large supply of seeds and young plants which I trust will get safely to India. And with all this stolen tea, they came back and started planting it in India. And over the years, Indian tea quickly topped the market in Britain as the best because, well, circuit jerking. So much because it was on their home turf. They started dissing Chinese tea on saying things like, My tea as in like chi, your tea is on a chi. So stupid. But the truth is not far from fiction. Just look at this advertisement that they published. Indian teas are pure. Indian teas are more aromatic. Indian teas are stronger. Indian teas are cheaper. Indian teas are more wholesome and are better in every respect than Chinese teas. Subtle. They're talking like they got out of a toxic relationship with China and got into a healthier one in India while forgetting that they were the toxic ones all along. But now this actually answers how it became popular in India and the answer lies in in I don't know. You see back in India, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway which opened in 1878 was symbiotically rooted to the growth of Indian tea. The first major experiment of the Indian tea association. Yes, another government body. Why do you guys make guys fix corruption? You can deal with tea later. Their experiment to globalize Indian tea began on Indian Railways. Basically it answers to IRCT. It was after World War 1 that Indian and Eurasian vendors started coming to railway stations with kettles and with stoves and everything had started making tea on the platforms. They began selling tea at the historic railway stations of Bengal, Punjab and the frontier provinces. The tea association prided itself that a better cup of tea could be in general had at the platform tea stores than at the first class restaurant cars on the trains. So I just have one question at this point. What happened to our railway chai? It's not like water but it's brown colour. Guys, this is the opposite of starting from the bottom now we are here. But this is the story of how fortune stolen gift to the British empire. Eventually it became into this hybrid drink in India where first we started adding a little bit of sugar then we started adding milk and then it became chai as we know it. And over time from small town railway stations to first class tea compartments, tea became the iconic symbol of a typical Indian train journey and this transformed a nation of previously tea totaless into a gigantic mass of three drinking Indians whose primary problem in life now is losing their partly genes. That's exactly right. Very funny. Fantastic. Great video. Very funny and engaging editing. Fantastic. Just keeps you engaged the whole time and really funny. Yeah and obviously talking about you know an actual subject which is we've seen it. Yeah it was. It had a lot of info in there too. We've seen a lot of a couple videos now about the history of tea in India. Yep. But you know he's put in a fun little format for people to watch. Yeah it was great. And just the British. That was very funny. I did too. Good job hats off to you man. And it's true Andrani is amazed no matter where we go everywhere everywhere we go. If they had a chai stall right here she's contemplated the idea of having a yeah everywhere we go Griffith Observatory, Dodger Stadium, the beach into West Hollywood just outside of a movie theater. If they had a chai stall right here she's not wrong. She's not wrong. She is because that's a lot of people regular Americans not that white people are regular Americans that's not what I'm saying please don't confuse it what I just said. They don't like that won't they'll see a woman standing on the side of the road making a drink and their first inclination is that's probably dirty. It's not it's just not our culture here. Well it is when you include the Mexican Americans because they're very accustomed to street food. You still have to like have health food like the ones the Mexican restaurants that set up on the sidewalks. There's delicious food. Yeah but there's places that every time you leave the Hollywood Bowl there's always somebody out there with a cart and has a grill on it and they're making stuff and I've always joked about the fact that you don't know what that meat is on that thing because they don't have a license they just showed up and did it and that's not in India that's something that is a common thing that they let the people do and Drani remarks about that all the time when she mentioned why don't you guys have more street people street vending and I said because the cities don't let you do that without a permit she said they specifically let you do that in places because it gives you an opportunity to make a living where you may not be able to otherwise do it so but yeah she that's one of the biggest things that she misses thankfully I can make it for her but when we're out and about she gets Starbucks but it's not chai Starbucks street chai she'll get something to get the caffeine and get something approximating that kind of a taste but nothing can replace nothing compares to you but depending on how much of that you drink that can be a lot of cream and sugar man if you're drinking a lot of chai all day long that's a lot of cream and sugar they do but they drink it in little increments they don't drink it in American size no that's very true so they're like and in addition to the fact that that's just an enjoyable thing it's a social point of contact for everybody to show up and have a chai and have a cigarette and just talk about the day it's a social thing no you shouldn't but it kills yourself and more importantly it kills other people kill yourself when you want I'm kidding don't kill yourself lawyer very funny video let us know if he has other videos we can react to or other videos we can react to by other people down below