To think all makers of joined up teabags should be arrested

[LaBelleSauvage]

So I've just made a cup of tea using a teabag from a certain yorkshire based tea company. They sell their teabags in pairs that must be separated by before use.

The joy of the tea-making process is violated by a crushing panic that one or both of the teabags will tear.

Am I being unreasonable to think the designers, and company directors, should be immediately arrested for gross indecency?

Having just hoovered up a small mountain of tea leaves from a torn teabag of said Yorkshire variety, I am 100% with you.

I get a handful and separate them, seems to stop the bags tearing

YANBU
Yorkshire tea for me too.
Have often ripped a bag open then spent the day with scratchy tea leaves in shoes, socks or wherever they end up. Even worse when it's lurking in the bottom of the cup
Should be a maximum sentence imposed for crimes against humani-tea.
Sorry, sorry, sorry

Completely agree. I use Twinings for a posh/treat cuppa sometimes, and abhor the fact that I have to engage in menial labour first.
If I wanted to do manual labour I'd be a road worker or something

i get this with the tesco teabags....Earl Grey, but it is a GOOD GOOD day when I get them all out of the packet and separated in one go!

Joined teabags are the best for a nice big Thermos though - you only have to root around for one bigger, soggier lump when you're ready to fish them out!

Lovely!

Like BuggerOff I open up the box, take a whole stack, tear them all in one go. Almost never have a tear, and if you do you can sort it out straight away rather than while faffing around making tea.

OMG

YADNBU

I use scissors to separate mine to avoid the risk of leakage.

I’ve drunk Yorkshire tea all me pigging life and I can count on one hand the number of bag rippage incidents I’ve had to contend with. Get a bloody grip woman.

YANBU OP - maximum sentences for all concerned

YANBU! And correct that there's a bad batch around, I never used to have this problem, now it's a daily dose of mild terror that, quite frankly, I could do without.

The bad batch were because they were experimenting with trying to be plastic free. It didn't work, but at least they tried.

YABVU if you are drinking the normal ones and not the Bedtime or Biscuit Brew versions which are highly superior (but also come in pairs).

Crimebustersofthesea I once emailed the British Cheese Board to settle a work argument about whether or not Dairy Lea counts as cheese. It took them 3 days to send a very polite non committal response simply listing the ingredients. So we emailed a chef instead who said those who thought it not to be cheese were elitist snobs and those who thought it was should have their taste buds examined.

This bad batch of Yorkshire tea doing the rounds sounds dangerous....

YANBU. I hate it when coffee shop baristas tie the teabag to the handle so you can't get it undone, so it ends up to strong.

I got round teabags from Tesco - I wouldn't have even thought you could get conjoined-twin round teabags, but you can. It's like they've gone out of their way to achieve it.

Yes! Met my people! Just Why?
Mind you, I also think this of joined up sausages in a pack. All wrong and just done to wind me up!

Every single time I separate the blasted bags I have visions of a tea cloud covering my kitchen but it has never actually happened. so far

I can get behind the plastic free change though, even though it means living dangerously.

Make it in a pot? Disclaimer I only drink coffee

I separate them and a few have split.
It's an art form getting them to become one bag..

A lot of their teabags though are hardly joined up at all so they rip apart very easily and you can split them a handful at a time. It's always a frisson to open a box like that, it's like finding that your Club biscuit is solid chocolate.

On the other hand the last two boxes we've had (bought at the same time, so same batch) quite a few of the separated bags have split in the teapot and you find you've got a mouthful of tea leaves. That never used to happen.

We've started using a teapot at home which takes four tea bags, thus eliminating the need.
Great idea all round, highly recommend.

If I start faffing around with a teapot I might as well use loose leaf.

Yy, for crimes against people trying to make a cup of tea one handed. Such as most parents of little children.

I agree with the other sensible people here. Open new box, grab bags and separate en masse put into tin/jar. Or use a tea pot and chuck the two in attached to eachother.