waider | a short comment on tea delivery systems

Open note to tea distributors in Ireland: Square tea bags are great. The small amount of air inevitably trapped inside them keeps a corner of the bag near enough to the surface that it's possible to whip the bag out of the mug without scalding yourself or requiring a spoon. Round tea bags that sit in the bottom of the cup do not have this feature. Pyramidal, dear god, PYRAMIDAL tea bags that, per advertising, encourage the swirling of ... I'm sorry, does anyone actually believe that advertising? Anyway. Whatever the dynamics, the little beggars ALSO cling to the bottom of the mug, or at least far enough down that it's a spoon operation to get 'em out. Forthwith, I expect all my tea to be delivered in square tea bags with sufficient buoyancy that the sound of me swearing at my burnt fingers OR that of a teaspoon clanging into the sink are not heard in my kitchen.

Seriously, I am busy. This damned hardware refuses to conform to the timeouts in the specs. I just need to take a break now and again.

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Don't teabags in Ireland come with little strings attached to pull them out of the mug?

Sure, if you're only drinking single cups in hotels and the like. I'm talking mass consumption of tea from a box here.

They make the big ones with strings on them here too, but in the south we just use them for "ice tea".

Mostly though we just have single-cup serving teabags with strings. :)

Your cunning American technology has defeated me! Aie!

Wuss! You just need to grow a set of Asbestos Fingers(tm).

(I'm going to regret this comment tomorrow, but i'm currently brain dead, as demonstrated by the above.)

a short comment on tea delivery systems

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