Although any tea connoisseur will tell you that tea is far better when left to infuse freely (and when it's not made from the types of leaves used to fill the vast majority of GREEN TEA 9371 bags out there), tea bags are enormously popular around much of the world. Statistics on the preference/use of tea bag show that tea bags are used by as many as 98% of Americans and 96% of UK residents. Furthermore, tea bags are widely used in India, Japan and elsewhere.

Initially, tea bags were only popular in the United States, in part because they were invented in the U.S. and in part because Americans simply adore anything that saves them time and effort. (I say this as an American!) They were widely available in the U.S. by the 1920s and didn't spread to the U.K. until 1953 when Tetley Tea launched the first tea bag for the U.K. market.

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