How many hours per day was spent on securing and preparing the days meal in Colony America? What was their diet like?

Heio, I was hoping you could help me with something google can not.

So, a couple months back I went on a tour to London. Being Portuguese, we got a Portuguese guide, and he told us a neat little story regarding the name of Tea, but I am skeptical, and I was hoping you could help me judge it.

So, In Portugal, we call tea "Chá", which is similar to the spelling that most Asian cultures (where tea largely originates from) "Chay". But I always found it odd that most European countries called it a variation of "Tea".

So, the explanation provided to us was that, during the Discoveries, Portugal established the first commercial shipping lanes between Europe and India, bringing many goods that were either rare or unknown to Europe, including Tea. Hearing it being referred to as "Chay", the Portuguese adapted the name to "Chá", not a very radical change.

As the Tea arrived in Lisbon, which became a massive trading hub, it would be split. Some would go into bags to be distributed across the country, while a lot more would be placed into crates marked with the word "Transport" (transporte in Portuguese) to ship to Europe. However, since most sailors were illiterate, they started marking the crates with the first letter of the word, a common practice since it would be an easy symbol to memorize. And so the crates were labelled "T".

And so, European merchants received crates of "T", which would explain why in most European languages the plant "Tea" is spelled exactly like the letter "T". Tea in english, Té in Spanish etc.

I cannot find anything online to confirm this. Is it bullshit, a legend, or true?

Thanks!

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