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by darrensharm 544 days ago
That's why most tea bags in Germany are made from starch. Land of high tech engineering, I guess.
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morsch 544 days ago
Most tea bags in Germany aren't made from starch. Am I missing something?

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teebeutel

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leobg 544 days ago
It’s just one of those areas where we weren’t quite fast enough to catch up with the U.S. in copying their mistakes. Though I think it is true that the tea bag used to be a German idea.
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