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I was making some Tea this morning with Loose Tea


It occurred to me that as a kid my mum always used Loose Tea and wondered when Tea-bags became generally available.


A little research says that the first Tea-bags in the Western World were around 1903/4.

Evidently originally the first Tea-bags were designed for the Tea to be emptied from the bag and used like Loose Tea.


I am trying to recollect when we (my family) started to use Tea-bags.. Would it of been the 60's..??


Any thoughts on subject.. Do you use loose tea. Tea pot.. ??


Foxy

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I once went for an interview for the paper mill that produced tea bag paper on the Scottish borders. Wonder if it is still there.


Switched to tea bags probably around 1971, the same time we changed from cups and saucers to mugs. You'll also find that men stopped wearing hats and more women wanted meaningful careers leading to the collapse of civilisation. I digress.


The caddy was still on the wall (think we all had a plastic one with a push button on it) when my mother moved out of the family house ten years ago, with tea in it from the 70s.


We kept using tea pots (although I rarely do nowadays - but the sign of a good cafe is a big aluminium tea pot).


As a young child I couldn't understand how tea bags got into the cups (from the pot?) at the local Chinese restaurant. We were really cosmopolitan/progressive in my upbringing!

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uncleglen Wrote:

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> Some tea bags are flimsy and I have accidentally

> burst them before and not noticed until I get a

> mouthful of loose tea....I always leave the bag

> in. And what is it with these companies that

> market their tea using unbleached paper for the

> bag?

> Loose jasmine tea is lovely



Quite possibly the most boring post in the entire universe, ever.!.

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As horrific as that sounds, HMB, can you imagine the scenes in my office when the powers-that-be decided that they would no longer provide green tea or oolong tea in the kitchenette? Surely in a modern, cosmopolitan, professional environment, expecting everyone to drink PG Tips is tantamount to forced cultural assimilation.


True. Story.

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red devil Wrote:

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> Get used to it guys, welcome to Brexit Britain.

> None of your foreign muck anymore, it's Tetley's,

> PG Tips and Yorkshire tea all the way now, 100%

> British tea...as long you ignore the fact where

> tea actually comes from.



Somebody on Twitter recently had an argument with

Yorkshire Tea about where in Yorkshire they grew

their tea.


http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/12/06/man-gets-schooled-yorkshire-tea-complaining-twitter/

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Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Astonishing scenes at my home just last week. The

> Earl Grey got mixed up with the Normal Breakfast

> Tea in the jar. I don't drink Early Grey and the

> tea bags are the same shape and size.

>

> It was tea roulette until all the tea bags had

> been finished.

>

> True story.

Can't you smell bergamot Boab?.....

Jah- my really boring post is quite at home in this extremely boring thread....

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I couldn't discern a difference by a sniff of the bag. However, I think the contents of and Early Grey Bag were slightly less then the Traditional Breakfast, this I noticed while holding them up to the light.


I have now put in place measures and protocols to ensure an incident like this doesn't happen again. It took over a week to cleanse the system so to speak, and to be confident what I was brewing.


uncleglen Wrote:

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> Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Astonishing scenes at my home just last week.

> The

> > Earl Grey got mixed up with the Normal

> Breakfast

> > Tea in the jar. I don't drink Early Grey and

> the

> > tea bags are the same shape and size.

> >

> > It was tea roulette until all the tea bags had

> > been finished.

> >

> > True story.

> Can't you smell bergamot Boab?.....

> Jah- my really boring post is quite at home in

> this extremely boring thread....

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My earliest recollection of drinking Tea was when I was about 3-4 Y.O.


I can remember clear as day saying ' Tea and toast Mum ? ' That would be Loose Leaf Tea made in the Pot.

.. and if it was winter, Toast made on the fire.. with black bits..


and then sit there watching Bill & Ben, The Wooden Tops, Twizzle, Andy Pandy.

I always thought Andy Pandy was a girl..


Foxy.

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