FOR SCIENCE!

[wanttobeatree]

and also because I have like six different kinds of tea right now and none of them are the right shape gdit

Poll

(Do triangular teabags even exist? I'm not sure.)

Comments

[13chapters]

My PG Tipps are sort of pyramidical, so I am pretty sure that is the correct shape.

eta: because hello I actually have a tea icon!

[wanttobeatree]

But teabags chugged along for so long before PG Tips (SINGLE P IF YOU PLEASE) whipped out the pyramid! How can it be the correct shape when it's still so new they're bragging about it??

(possibly they weren't actually the first to do pyramids, but they're the first I remember, so.)

[13chapters]

Oh, do they brag about it? I've never actually seen them advertised. They're not hard to find here, but they're also not a very mainstream product.

[elizardbits]

It depends on the sort of tea, I think. Regular black tea seems right in square bags, while herbals and frooty teas seem more at home in circular ones. Earl Grey teabags are most importantly kept in the bin for they are vile rubbish.

*awaits internets fisticuffs*

[wanttobeatree]

I HAVE NEVER HAD A FROOTY TEA FROM CIRCULAR TEABAG. They have been 99% square and 1% pyramid in my herbal tea experience.

I AM NOT HUGELY FOND OF EARL GREY BUT I HAD SOME REALLY NICE STUFF THE OTHER WEEK THAT WAS ACTUALLY GROWN IN CORNWALL SO UM. FISTICUFF FOR YOU SIR.

[elizardbits]

Wait, the tea itself was grown in Cornwall? Or the vile monstrous bergamot oranges were?

[wanttobeatree]

The teeeeaaa. From REAL TEA PLANTS whatever those plants are called.

[laulan]

Mine are usually square OR rectangular, though I'm actually not to picky about the shape. Circular and pyramidal can be fun too. ALL TEA IS CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION~

[wanttobeatree]

YOU ARE CORRECT, ALL THE TEAS ARE GOOD TEAS

[laulan]

I just noticed your new LJ title. "Don't make people into horses, John."

[wanttobeatree]

Horses don't exist and if they did I wouldn't be one of them >:[[[[

[theoret]

Square and Circular are both correct, but I picked Square, because it is more classic.

(Also, by 'square' I actually mean 'very slightly off square but not enough to be very rectangle-y'. You know. The shape tea bags are supposed to be. Genuinely square tea bags may be a little odd.)

[wanttobeatree]

I swear I have/have had genuinely square teabags...! Haven't I? Now I am going to end up really thoroughly examining every quadrilateral teabag I come across.

[theoret]

I feel like I haven't used a square tea bag, but maybe I have and if I saw one again I'd just go "Oh, right, of course, that is a perfectly cromulent tea bag". But I can't shake the feeling that a perfect square would look odd.

[wanttobeatree]

Perhaps you just haven't seen one in a while and so you've forgotten about them? Like how you forget about being cold >:|

/friendsfriends

[boosette]

Ideally tea comes loose-leaf for me (& I tend do dump a couple heavy pinches in the bottom of a cup, pour hot water over the top and refresh the water until the tea taste disappears).

Otherwise, rectangular or trapezoidal for lower-end bagged teas, round for higher-end ones.

Re: /friendsfriends

[authorial]

you have a shark in your icon. i like you.

Re: /friendsfriends

[boosette]

:D

My life's aspiration for which I am going to learn Spanish is swimming with whale sharks an Honduras, and also swimming with great whites in Mexico, and maybe also reef sharks in the Caribbean. But the reef sharks can be swum with without learning Spanish. (I've been watching Shark Week since before I was born (mom caught Shark Week 1986 while I was in utero, if the stories are correct) and they are my favorite-favorite <3)