“Tea is just leaf soup”

Tea has sometimes been called “leaf soup.” “Came to the stunning realization that tea is leaf soup” was posted on Twitter on February 2, 2009. “Tea is just leaf soup” was posted on Twitter on January 3, 2012, and on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on June 18, 2015.
 
“Tea is just hot leaf juice” is a similar tea saying.
 
     
Twitter
brutusfly‏
@brutusfly
Came to the stunning realization that tea is leaf soup.
9:12 AM - 2 Feb 2009
 
Twitter
eugene‏
@ryujean
techinically tea is leaf soup #youjeandiscoveries
9:59 AM - 28 Apr 2011
 
Twitter
Courbs‏
@Courbs
If you think about it, tea is really just leaf soup. And for @gamoid, soup is really just chicken tea.
5:48 PM - 21 Aug 2011
 
Twitter
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@w4ner
Tea is just leaf soup.
4:50 AM - 3 Jan 2012
   
Twitter
bill peduto‏
@billpeduto
Tea is actually “leaf soup”. #speakingtruthtotealeaves
10:57 AM - 12 Mar 2012
 
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Tea is just leaf soup
submitted June 18, 2015 by rcgy
     
Twitter
Abby Burke‏
@abbsofsteel30
“Sometimes life is hard because you remember that coffee is just bean water…And tea is just leaf soup” -Sadie Taylor
8:59 AM - 16 Sep 2017
 
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Tea is just dried leaf soup.
submitted October 12, 2017 by orthoros
 
Twitter
Jesse Bolding‏
@BoldGoob
Tea is dried leaf soup and coffee is bean water
10:36 AM - 12 Oct 2017