{"id":70,"date":"2011-11-02T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/ephemera\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:24:31","slug":"the-tea-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/the-tea-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"The tea bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two for tea and tea for two, la-di-da and da-di-la<\/em>. This little pack of tea bags appeared in our street a while back. I didn\u2019t get one but there were heaps piled up outside the block of flats down the road so I took one of those \u2013 sorry if you missed out on your English Breakfast.<\/p>\n

Tea is such a prosaic, everyday item and yet, here, Twinings is casting it as an up-market product, that little bit of exclusive pleasure wrapped in a red ribbon, a special gift for you. There\u2019s quite a deal of print involved in this freebie too and they\u2019ve gone to a lot of trouble with it.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s the box itself, printed full colour inside and out with a varnish. Open the flap and, inside, all the tea bags are lined up, printed really rather finely; even on the smallest bag, the text is still legible. The yellow background is not just a flat solid but has a very subtle gradation, barely perceptible.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/a><\/p>\n

Then there is the sachet containing the tea bag, printed on a flexible film. I like the little cartoon of instructions on the reverse side, the kettle pouring in the liquid gold and the gold vapours rising from the cup.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/a><\/p>\n

And then there is the tea bag tag, measuring no more than 3x2cm and yet the minute type of LONDON is still legible \u2013 it must be about 2 point size, at the limits of what is readable. Ultra-fine printing on a mass scale on a tag attached to a tea bag – who said tea was prosaic?<\/p>\n

Brewed some Earl Grey for breakfast this morning and it was lovely.<\/p>\n

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Two for tea and tea for two, la-di-da and da-di-la. This little pack of tea bags appeared in our street a while back. I didn\u2019t get one but there were heaps piled up outside the block of flats down the road so I took one of those \u2013 sorry if you missed out on your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}