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97.5% of tea purchased in the UK comes in tea bags.
Tea firstly appeared in Europe thanks to Portuguese Jesuit Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560.
The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D
By the mid 18th c. tea replaced ale & gin as the drink of the masses to become Britain's most popular beverage.
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