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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

I think he'd be right if that's what he's suggesting. Consider what a
bad reputation they had to start with: people very often used teabags
for the family and loose tea for visitors. There must have been a
considerable advantage to overcome that. The advantage is simplicity
of preparation and cleaning up: I use only leaf tea, but even with
that early example my children have preferred bags ever since they
started making their own tea. The supermarket shelves tell their own
tale, too: people are clearly buying more of the bags even when it's
the same tea -- my own favourite brand, for example, is now
available, if at all, in my local supermarkets _only_ in bag form,
and I have to remember to get it when I'm in London.

Come to Sunny Norwich where we have two specialist tea shops. I believe
both do mail order, if you want their addresses.

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