Tea bag

And then-

Teabag?

Teabag, when you put a teabag in the tea and then it goes brown.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

[whistling]

Come on, Teabag.

[laughs] Teabag.

[laughs] I'm going with shotty [whistling] and a fourth down conversion in the first quarter.

Reason being, [sighs] 100 yards is gonna be tough against this outfit.

The mug is waiting.

Teabag already in.

For a moment, before you reach for it, everything inside goes quiet.

The commentary pauses.

Pasta, okay.

I put teabag.

Teabag, okay.

Good guesses.

I'm tempted to give you half a point.

This all changed in 1901.

Now, contrary to popular belief and what every single tea manufacturer I could find said on their websites and many a tea history book and paper consulted also stated, it was not merchant Thomas Sullivan who invented the tea bag in 1908.

While he did invent a tea bag that year, he was beat out by seven years by Roberta C. Lawson and Mary Millaren of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

On August 26, 1901, the two intrepid women filed a patent for a rather unique tea leaf holder that is remarkably similar to the modern tea bag.

They had identified an issue with the way that tea had been commonly brewed for thousands of years.

In their own words, the traditional method of having to brew a whole pot at a time involves the use of a considerable quantity of tea leaves to prepare the desired supply of tea, and the tea, if not used directly, soon becomes stale or wanting in freshness, and therefore unsatisfactory, and frequently a large portion of the tea thus prepared and not used directly has to be thrown away, thus involving much waste and corresponding expense.

However, seemingly they were unsuccessful at bringing this to market, at least on any widespread scale that would have registered in documented history.

Now, this brings us to Thomas Sullivan.

We will do that when we come back.

We are the Morning Animals in Zynga, Spinozzi, Curtis, Cary, and Teabag.

Spinozzi, real quick before we get to our locks, our weather check right now.

Triple digits today and tomorrow, and then dropping off to 90s on Sunday, maybe a little rain, and then nothing but 80s sailing ahead.

Now, your tailgating's going to be toasty.

Yeah, that trailer's going to be really fun.

Teabag will have a fun time with that, but...

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

A teabag.

Okay, I like that.

Teabag.

Always have a couple of spare teabags.

Yeah.

A lot of them produce the teas that go into that form of tea bag that you buy in the supermarket.

And they're a blend, a blend of a lot of different teas and teas Sometimes there's stalk in there.

I mean, we're just doing tea mastery at the moment, classes where we tear open the tea bags to actually see what's in them.

But, yeah, it's quite interesting.

It's a bulk blend.

And he basically, well, he's kind of, in a way, the precursor, the father of modern commercial tea, isn't he, in a way? Yeah.

Yeah, because he branded it and packaged it up and created that whole marketing against loose leaf and then had the packages at reasonable sorts of prices and became quite famous.

He didn't invent the tea bags, but he made tea a really modern branded product.

Oh, I love a teabag.

So, Andy, have you ever-

... teabagged a woman? It doesn't seem that fun to me.

I have.

Yeah, not me.

Anyways, what were we talking about? We started a story.

Teabag.