TEA IN BAGS
Popularity Growing (By ZALIA THOMAS) LONDON. The tea bag first came Into being in 1904 when a New York tea merchant Thomas Sullivan, sent out samples of his tea in little silk bags instead of the usual tin boxes. His customers found them so convenient for making tea that they began to order their tea parcelled in that way. After the first hand-sewn silk packets, tea bags were made of gauze. Today they are made of a special filter tissue. Modern machinery is used to fill the bags at the rate of 300 a minute, with exactly the right amount of tea needed. In Britain today tea bags contain 3} grams of skilfullyblended tea. Those who have tried tea made this way when on holidays in Europe may have found it lacking in strength and flavour because the Con tinental bags may contain substantially less tea than bags in the United Kingdom. One of the main advantages of tea bags is that they dispense with the tiresome chore of disposing of used tealeaves. Bags are, therefore, becoming increasingly popular in hospitals, hotels and restaurants.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31547, 8 December 1967, Page 2
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187TEA IN BAGS Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31547, 8 December 1967, Page 2
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