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Ten thousand years
Ten thousand years (万岁, wansui; Japanese banzai; Korean manse; Vietnamese vạn tuế) is an East Asian blessing of longevity that became the emperor's exclusive acclamation in Song China and a modern celebratory shout.
Tencha (碾茶)
Tencha (碾茶) is shade-grown Japanese tea leaf, steamed, dried without rolling, and destemmed; ground in a stone mill it becomes matcha. Key regions: Uji, Nishio, Kagoshima; 5,336 t produced in 2024.
Tenmei riots
The Tenmei riots (天明の騒動) were the wave of food riots and peasant uprisings that shook Japan during the Tenmei famine, peaking in the great urban riots of 1787.
Tenmoku
Tenmoku (天目) is the Japanese term for the black-glazed tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony, named after Mount Tianmu in China and called kensan (jianzhan) there.
Tennent Caledonian
Tennent Caledonian, also Tennent Caledonian Breweries, is the Glasgow brewing business behind Tennent's lager at Wellpark Brewery, formed in 1966 and owned by C&C Group since its £180 million purchase from AB InBev in 2009.
Tennessee whiskey
Tennessee whiskey: corn-based whiskey made in Tennessee to bourbon standards plus maple-charcoal filtering before aging (the Lincoln County process), mandated by a 2013 state law with one grandfathered exemption for Prichard's; Jack Daniel's is the largest producer.
Teochew cuisine (潮州菜)
Teochew cuisine (潮州菜, Chaozhou/Chiu Chow) is the cooking tradition of the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong, China, marked by light flavors, seafood, master-stock braising, and gongfu tea, protected as national intangible cultural heritage since 2021.
Tepache
Tepache (Nahuatl tepiatl, corn drink) is a Mexican fermented beverage now made from pineapple peel, piloncillo, cinnamon, and clove, fermented 2-3 days with about 1-3% alcohol, sold as a street drink and studied for probiotic strains.
Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き)
Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) is Japanese grilling on a flat iron plate, from postwar okonomiyaki stalls to the Misono steakhouse style founded in Kobe in 1945, later spread abroad by Benihana in 1964 and often mislabeled "hibachi" in America.
Tequila
Tequila: Mexican distilled spirit from blue agave (Agave tequilana Weber azul) under NOM-006-SCFI-2012, 35–55% ABV, appellation since 1974, classes blanco to extra añejo, regulated by the CRT.
Teriyaki (照り焼き)
Teriyaki (照り焼き) is a Japanese cooking method glazing fish or meat with a sweet soy, mirin, sake, and sugar tare for a glossy finish; Edo-period origin, distinct from American bottled-sauce teriyaki.
Terrible Towel
The Terrible Towel is the black-and-gold rally towel of the Pittsburgh Steelers, created by broadcaster Myron Cope in 1975 for a playoff game against the Baltimore Colts; trademarked, with royalties benefiting Merakey Allegheny Valley School.
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Terry's Chocolate Orange: British segmented orange-flavored chocolate ball, launched early 1930s by Terry's of York; predecessor Chocolate Apple 1926; York factory closed 2005; now made in Strasbourg, France by Carambar & Co.
Terrycloth
Terrycloth (terry cloth, terry towelling) is a cotton pile fabric with uncut loops fed from a second slack warp beam, highly absorbent; standard for towels and robes, distinct from sheared velour and one-sided French terry knit.
Tesco
Tesco PLC, British multinational grocery retailer founded by Jack Cohen in 1919 as an East London market stall; name from T.E. Stockwell plus Cohen. Largest UK grocer at 28.2% market share, 3,724 stores, FY25/26 sales £66.6bn, headquartered in Welwyn Garden City.
Tesco Clubcard
Tesco Clubcard is Tesco's UK supermarket loyalty scheme, launched in 1995 as the UK's first supermarket loyalty card. Members earn one point per £1, redeem vouchers at double or triple value with partners, and get member-only Clubcard Prices.
Tess Holliday
Tess Holliday (Ryann Maegen Hoven), American plus-size model and body positivity activist from Mississippi; first US size 22, 5'5" model signed by a major agency (MiLK, 2015); founder of #EffYourBeautyStandards.
Tết
Tết (Tết Nguyên Đán) is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Vietnam's most important festival, held between late January and mid-February; marked by bánh chưng, lì xì envelopes, ancestor altars, and a measurable Lunar New Year stock-market effect.
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak (founded 1951, Sweden, by Ruben Rausing as a subsidiary of Åkerlund & Rausing) is a food packaging company known for tetrahedron and brick beverage cartons and aseptic packaging, sold in over 160 countries.
Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也)
Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born 1970) is a Japanese video game character designer and director at Square Enix who designed Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Yuna, and Sora.
Tex-Mex
Tex-Mex is a Texas-born regional cuisine blending Mexican, Native American, Spanish, and Anglo traditions; known for chili con carne, nachos, fajitas, yellow cheese, cumin, and flour tortillas, distinct from Mexican food.
Texas Roadhouse
Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) is a Louisville, Kentucky-based casual dining steakhouse chain founded by Kent Taylor in 1993 in Clarksville, Indiana, operating Texas Roadhouse, Bubba's 33, and Jaggers, with 832 restaurants and about $5.9 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue.
Texas toast
Texas toast is thick-sliced white bread, about twice normal thickness, buttered and grilled; invented in 1941 at the Pig Stand in Beaumont, Texas, by Royce Hailey and cook Wiley W. W. Cross, now served nationwide.
Textile
Textile: any flexible material of interlaced natural or artificial fibers, also called cloth or fabric. Spun into yarn, formed by weaving, knitting, braiding, or nonwoven bonding; polyester overtook cotton as the leading fiber in the late 1990s.
Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand
Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand organized garment workers from the 1880s, ending in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, formed in 1992.
Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong
Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong are dominated by the state-run ACFTU on the mainland, while Hong Kong unions have narrowed sharply since the 2020 National Security Law.
Textile and garment unions in Japan and Korea
Textile and garment unions in Japan and South Korea represent spinning, weaving, and apparel workers; Japanese unionism is company-based, while Korean unionism drove the militant democratic labor movement.
Textile design
Textile design creates designs and products for woven, knitted, stitched, printed, or decorative textiles, spanning surface pattern and fabric structure. Key facts: AQA definition, Jacquard punch-card looms, women's entry into design, AI and e-textile frontiers.
Textile documentation and digitization projects
Textile documentation and digitization projects are systematic efforts to record and digitize textile heritage, combining object metadata, technical analysis, and imagery, from EU programs to community projects.
Textile industry
Textile industry: production of yarns and fabrics from natural and synthetic fibers. Also called the 'first industry'; spans spinning, weaving, wet processing, technical textiles; led the Industrial Revolution; employs over 75 million people globally.