Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmy.ca garfaagel @sh.itjust.works 10mo ago

TIL that teabags were invented by accident. In 1908, a New York tea merchant sent tea samples to customers in small silk bags. The customers put the bags directly in hot water, and the teabag was born

www.tea.co.uk UK Tea & Infusions Association - The Humble Tea Bag

The invention of the tea bag in the twentieth century was a development that would radically change our tea-drinking habits forever.

Bonus: The Britons were reluctant to the new American invention for a long time. In the early 1960s tea bags only made up 3% of the market, but in 2007 it had risen to 96%.

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reminder that users will do whatever they like with the product you give them, intended or not
- cries in back massager
  
  Back massagers, electric toothbrushes, and shower heads with a "pulse" setting are the trinity of body discovery.
  
  They know exactly what they're doing, they just don't want to call them pussy sticks.
  
  it's called marketing opportunity, leave that to bean counters
- No one will stop me from eating silica gel.
  
  It says "eat" right there on the package!
- Exhibit 1: tide pods
Still an inferior way of brewing tea. You are supposed to throw it directly into the (ideally harbor) water, let it steep for a brisk 150 years and then add a shitload of molasses. The superior "Boston Method"
American laziness, creating growth since 1776.
so thats why tea made from teabags tastes like an accident.
And now they are commonly made from nylon, which doesn’t easily biodegrade.
- Most are still paper
- At least it doesn’t exploit living beings.

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