i drink a lot of tea.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the \"Camellia sinensis\", an evergreen shrub (bush) native to Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral or grassy notes. Tea originated in Southwest China, where it was used as a medicinal drink. It was popularized as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among Britons, who started large-scale production and commercialization of the plant in India to bypass the Chinese monopoly. The term herbal tea refers to drinks not made from \"Camellia sinensis\": infusions of fruit, leaves, or other parts of the plant, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. These are sometimes called \"tisanes\" or \"herbal infusions\" to prevent confusion with tea made from the tea plant.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really love iced tea and hot tea, after water it's the most consumed drink in the world.  Do you like tea?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I like iced \"sweet\" tea with added sugar. It is very common here in the south."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, I grew up on sweet iced tea but trying to cut down on my sugar intake these days.  I've heard good things about Darjeeling and Chinese green tea also"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am also a fan of ginseng green tea. I think it has certain health benefits."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think there are probably a lot of health benefits - in fact it was used as a medicinal drink for a long time."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Back before we had drugs for everything tea was used for all kinds of ailments."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Chinese actually had a monopoly on it until those in Britain started drinking it and then decided to commercialize it in India."}, {"role": "user", "content": "When the British king wanted to impose a tax on tea destined for the USA the colonists dumped it in the Boston Tea Party."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty and happened on December 16, 1773"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That was one of the first skirmishes that led to the Revolutionary War."}]