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Tea might become your favorite hot beverage, if you ditch the little bags

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/tea-might-become-your-favorite-hot-beverage-if-you-ditch-the-little-bags/2014/10/20/426d03c4-4ff3-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html?utm_term=.6ba3b8f1c834 Coffee or tea? A splosh of cultural baggage comes with that choice, offered by banquet servers who tote a carafe of “caf” in one hand and “decaf” in the other. The tea might arrive later, or it might not. If it does, chances are good that a) it was brewed through the machine used for coffee, or b) it comes with a tea bag afloat in tepid water. Weak. Tea is the second-most consumed beverage in the world, after water. But it is a second-class citizen in our nation of hot-liquid drinkers, no matter how much the tea numbers are trending upward . That’s surprising, considering that tea — green as well as black — was the go-to refreshment in America long before colonists dumped 340 chests of it into Boston Harbor . Contrary to popular opinion about a patriotic grudge that se