In 1838 one English ship transported boxes with tea and bergamot oil (extracted from a particular kind of lemon which had been cultivated in the South-East Asia)from India to Great Britain. The ship got in storm and the boxes broke and the tea mixed with the oil. However the owner of the ship didn`t want to loose his money and the spoiled tea appeared in the English market. The English people pretty liked the tea and then it was called Earl Grey in honour of the Indian earl who owned the tea-plantation.
It turns out, that the English people are not inventors of the famous Earl Grey Tea, but they are real experts of the sophisticated tastes of tea!
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Thanks for sharing such nice bit of information. Sometimes most famous invention were discovered from mistakes such as chewing gum and post-it notes.