"Melinda" > wrote in message
...
> I have heard (but have not confirmed this myself) that British tea bags
and
> some Canadian ones have a little more tea in them becuase the taste for a
> stronger cuppa is more popular there. I wish I had a sensitive gram scale,

I called the local gourmet shop last week only to be told that a digital
scale runs in the neighborhood of $70+ . Thinking of all the tea I could
buy with that amount of money, I decided to stick with my measuring spoon.

> I'd do some experiments, though that would entail buying a box of Lipton
and
> other assorted tea bags...

And, you're not a masochist, right?

> Oh, speaking of LIpton...regardless of what you think of their teas...

It's just the regular stuff that I don't like. Their flavored, greens, and
herbals are okay IMO.

> the
> history of the company and the founder is fascinating. I read about it in
a
> book called The Tea Book (no author...it was one of those full of
pictures)
> and it was very interesting. I guess the original founder was quite the
> marketing genius, but it seems that the tea they sold was better then...
>
>
> (Trying to remember...seems to me one of the incidents where they showed
his
> marketing genius was thus: He was on a ship and for some reason they had
to
> throw the entire cargo of tea chests overboard (or cargo of some sort of
> luggage, can't remember exactly) ..weight problem or something...anyway,
he
> made sure Drink Lipton Tea was stamped on the side of each so that
wherever
> they landed it would bring his company name. I never would've thought of
> that...)

Kewl story - thanks for posting it .

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