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PHOTOS: Tea Bagging Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Tea bags were first introduced in China as a method for preserving the flavor of tea during the Tang Dynasty in 618-907 A.D. But it wasn’t until the early 20th century that they were distributed commercially and used in place of traditional metal tea infusers.
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Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea merchant who may or may not have been homosexual, began sending samples of his loose leaf teas in silk sachets. Customers mistakenly thought the sachets were supposed to be used in the same way as metal tea infusers, by dropping the entire bag into a cup of boiling water.
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Realizing the genius in his customers’ mistake, Sullivan quickly patented the idea and, thus, it was by sheer happenstance that the modern tea bad came to be.
Scroll down for pictures of tea bagging like you’ve never seen before…
The Traditional Teabag
Photo credit: Anders Adermark
The Dainty Tea Bag
Photo credit: Olivia Townsend
The Prophetic Teabag
Photo credit: MissMessie
The Passive Aggressive Teabag
Photo credit: Matt Stocker
That Poor Teabag
Photo credit: Simon Brass
The Pro-Choice Teabag
Photo credit: Tweetspeak Poetry
The Tag Team Teabag
Photo credit: JimmyMac210
The Broken-Hearted Teabag
Photo credit: Peter Roberts
The That-Was-Fun-We-Should-Do-It-Again-Sometime Teabag
Photo credit: Toshiyuki IMAI
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