We Brits can take any amount of radioactive fallout – just as long as we’ve still got the cup that cheers but does not inebriate:
Nuclear threat sparked tea worry
The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal.
Government officials planning food supplies said the tea situation would be “very serious” after a nuclear war.
Indeed it would be serious. All that heat’d sour the milk.