Whats in the bag?....I know!

Tea bags are the grocery equivalent of a structured financial product

So what exactly is in that teabag you used this morning for a nice "cuppa" tea?

Well cut it open and you will find that it probably resembles mildly tea flavoured sawdust.

I only recently discovered this when buying a "premium" supermarket brand of loose tea. I thought they had real cheek calling it premium "leaf" tea rather than "value sawdust with a mild hint of tea".

But then I checked out the supermarket's tea bags under the same "premium" branding. Well hardly surprising it is the same "sawdust tea". I shudder to think what their "value" range is like. But hats off to them as when I complained about the quality of their "premium" tea they promptly refunded me the cost of the "tea" and put the range on special offer within a week. So they know how to react.

Tea bags were invented on the grounds that customers would find it easier to prepare tea with the tea enclosed in the bags rather than have to deal with messy leaves.

Not only does this generate wasteful bags but it is uncertain how much real tea there is in the teabags. Open a tea bag and see for yourself.

A teabag is the grocery equivalent of a structured financial product.

Only when you cut one open you will find that it is filled with sawdust and not real leaf tea.


.......... Warren EDWARDES ............ http://wineforspicewarrenedwardes.blogspot.com/