Re:Mystery of the ketchup cups
by romwell on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:47PM
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Great investigation!
However, the inventor of tea bags never intended them to be used for brewing tea either[1]:
>First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed about 1908 by the tea and coffee importer Thomas Sullivan from New York, who shipped his silk tea bags around the world. The loose tea was intended to be removed from the bags by customers, but they found it easier to brew the tea with the tea still enclosed in the porous bags.
That is, the "correct" usage of tea bags came from the customers misusing the product a century ago.
Who can say that unfolding a ketchup cup doesn't follow the same pattern?
Re:Mystery of the ketchup cups
by liberte82 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:38PM
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Unless the story that tea bags was originally meant to be removed from the bags, is itself a myth based on one person's personal theory that slowly morphed into fact. :)
However, the inventor of tea bags never intended them to be used for brewing tea either[1]:
>First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed about 1908 by the tea and coffee importer Thomas Sullivan from New York, who shipped his silk tea bags around the world. The loose tea was intended to be removed from the bags by customers, but they found it easier to brew the tea with the tea still enclosed in the porous bags.
That is, the "correct" usage of tea bags came from the customers misusing the product a century ago.
Who can say that unfolding a ketchup cup doesn't follow the same pattern?
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag#History