
According to legend—which means I don’t want to go look up the year and stuff—teabags were invented when a tea company sent out samples in pretty little scrap-silk bags, and the Americans were too stupid to know that was just packaging. They dropped the whole thing into the pot. Didn’t sell a lot of the tea blends, but they wrote back and absolutely raved about the wonderful little packets, could they get more of those? Not being utter fools, the company’s response was a solid “Oh? You w...
Published on January 27, 2022 09:50