https://helloteacup.com A Tea Blog, Expert Tea Guides Tue, 14 May 2019 08:53:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/helloteacup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/helloteacup.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://helloteacup.com 32 32 125389065 https://helloteacup.com/2013/08/09/the-tea-bag-was-invented-accidentally/ https://helloteacup.com/2013/08/09/the-tea-bag-was-invented-accidentally/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2013 05:46:20 +0000 http://teasenz.wordpress.com/?p=1038 Despite general assumptions that drinking tea from a tea bag would be more prominent in the UK, it was in America, that tea bags were first developed. It was around 1908 when Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea merchant, started to send samples of tea to his customers in small silken bags. Some assumed that these were supposed to be used in the same way as the metal infusers, by putting the entire bag into the pot, rather than emptying out the contents. And lo and behold the tea bag was born. Soon the silken fabric was adjusted to a more gauzy fabric and people were getting ready made tea gags. During the 1920s these were developed for commercial production, and the bags grew in popularity in the USA. Made first of all from gauze and […]

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