Rambold also designed a viable teabag-packing machine to produce these bags, a significant engineering marvel that led to his machines sold throughout the world. What follows has been a variety of innovative fibers for the pyramid bags, especially PLA (polylactic acid) a woven yarn made from the fermentation of sugar, milled from either GMO or non-GMO corn sources.

Osborn’s innovation eliminated the glitches found in hand-made papers and his process made the material consistent, a must when producing in great quantities. By this time, Indian and Chinese markets for tea had opened up considerably, access to incredibly fine estate teas was made possible, and consumers were ready to ditch the generally poor quality of fannings and dust prevalent in teabags.Round shape or square shape may be great for diamonds, but the best shape for a teabag is pyramid to allow the full unfurling of exceptional tea leaves. The bag could be removed to be filled with tea and an elongated handle was attached to the float to carry it from kitchen to table. I use a 90p strainer from Wilko, Liz, but if you don’t mind the fluff sticking in your teeth, crack on.

The huge teabag contraption brewed tea “sweetened or milked or both” and well received: “Capital tea was made at the last festival by this plan,” one member wrote.These bags allow a variety of quantities in the sac, so one can brew by the cup or the pot with as much or as little tea as desired instead of the pre-measured amount in commercial teabags. Ms Truss’s pronunciation of the word has been widely mocked online, with one video of the moment viewed almost one million times so far.

Sir Thomas Lipton, surely the finest advertising proponent of his era, fulfilled two goals with one clever idea: he added a tag to his paper teabags, then had his company name and tea brewing instructions printed on the tag.

Soilon™, a bio-based, non-petroleum-based biodegradable PLA from plants, developed by Yamanaka Industry of Japan, is a silky food-grade plastic used in many teabags. Usually rectangular in shape, they have a fold-over flap on top which is opened to put leaves into the bag. He kept refining his invention up until his last patent application, filed when he was 87-years-old. No useful purpose of any kind can be served by compelling us, when speaking English, to refer to An Taoiseach rather than to the Prime Minister. Two women got into the invention game in 1903 with the “Tea Leaf Holder,” that had a pocket of open mesh fabric with one open end for the tea leaves to be added and a flap closed to secure the leaves with a piece of wire.

Lipton’s “flow-thru” teabag, thanks to his extensive advertising, captured the American public’s attention and is still available. The words Taoiseach and Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) are both from the Irish language and of ancient origin. The Irish word taoiseach means “chief” or “leader”, and was adopted in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland as the title of the “head of the Government or Prime Minister”. Yesterday, Ms Truss set out plans to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which has been heavily criticised by Irish and EU political figures.Cock-ups happen to the best of us, as Sky News’s Sophy Ridge discovered this month when she mispronounced Jeremy Hunt’s surname as that bad word for a woman’s front pantry, as many have done before.