On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:07:32 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:

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> Nancy2 > wrote:
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>> I always buy loose tea and use one of those little perforated ball
>> diffusers - because it's better than teabags, not for any other
>> reason.
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>I'm not currently a tea drinker, but I got really turned off by cheap
>tea bags. They turn the hot water brown really quickly, but there's no
>flavor. If you let them steep, they get more flavor. How does that
>work? I read that they put food coloring in those really cheap tea bags!

All nonsense. There's plenty of quality tea sold in teabags and
plenty of lousy tea sold loose. Nowadays much of what's marketed
loose and in bags isn't even tea, it's a lot of herbal concoctions.