There is No Escape From Bubble Tea

Is nowhere safe from globalization?

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When you go to France, you expect croissants and baguettes. Germany, schnitzel. Italy, oodles of pasta. In England, you will drink tea of course. Proper British tea. Black with milk, no sugar, the way the Queen and God intended.

We were in the depths of rural Cornwall when we entered a traditional 17th-century pub…