Tea-bags ???

[DulwichFox]

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

[malumbu]

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!

[Doffman]

Passed on by my grandma, I swear by a fusion teapot. Two breakfast teabags to one earl grey. You wont go back

[DulwichFox]

Doffman Wrote:

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> Passed on by my grandma, I swear by a fusion

> teapot.

Two breakfast teabags to one earl grey.

You wont go back

That's interesting. lot of Tea for just me..

Foxy

[TheArtfulDogger]

Foxy

Is this your way of saying you are into "tea bagging" now 😳

[Lowlander]

Very common in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Tea leaves do produce a nicer, more flavourful tea especially if you don't take milk.

Very much a British/Irish thing (did you know the Irish drink more tea per head than the UK?).

[DulwichFox]

TheArtfulDogger Wrote:

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> Foxy

>

> Is this your way of saying you are into "tea

> bagging" now 😳

NO mate. but if you keep searching .. I'm sure you will soon find someone that can help you out. ;-)

Foxy

[JohnL]

70s and 80s my mother definitely used loose tea in a teapot

You'd have to watch out you didn't get a load of tea at the bottom of the pot (not filtered either)

teabags late 80s ?

[uncleglen]

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

[Jah Lush]

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.!.

[Jeremy]

I don't drink tea every day, but I had some on Saturday.

True story.

[sjsl]

Agree, late 80s they were becoming commonplace. Agree with Doffman re fusion tea, we use a breakfast teabag with a pinch of loose Earl Grey though. Tea leaves in the sink a small (but slightly annoying) price to pay.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

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.

[Jeremy]

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.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

OMG Jezz, that sounds Ghastly. Who are these savages that you work for. I can only assume HR has been informed. Unacceptable.

#FreeTheTea

[red devil]

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.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I.WANT.MY.TEA.BACK.

[JohnL]

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/

[Jah Lush]

Let's make tea great again.

[Alan Medic]

When is tea time in this country? It used to be when I now have my dinner, which used to be when I now have my lunch. Has the government got rid of it?

[KidKruger]

Yorkshire tea is ace.

I didn't know it's grown under ground though, especially under Dewsbury. Halifax I could believe (with Calder river water perhaps), but not blerdy Dewsbury.

[uncleglen]

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....

[Help-Ma-Boab]

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:

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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....

[Jah Lush]

Isn't it just.

[DulwichFox]

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.