That a beverage best enjoyed cold has enjoyed such widespread popularity in a country with such a temperate climate is curious enough.

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They are a temperate-climate crop, sensitive to temperature changes and requiring four distinct seasons.

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This was less of a problem in the temperate climate of England, but in the U.S. it was a fatal flaw.

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