There was nothing new about tea bags, it was in a coffee shop where Ben came up with an idea that would change his families lives, to put sugar in little bags and sell them individually. Ben took his invention, unpatented, to a sugar company, which apparently stole it, rendering him forever suspicious. The company actually took off when Ben and Uncle Marvelous came up with the idea for Sweet'N Low. They positioned it first as an aid to diabetics, but dieters began swiping it from hospitals and restaurants, and soon the little pink packets had largely replaced not only the sugar dispenser but sugar
There was nothing new about tea bags, it was in a coffee shop where Ben came up with an idea that would change his families lives, to put sugar in little bags and sell them individually. Ben took his invention, unpatented, to a sugar company, which apparently stole it, rendering him forever suspicious. The company actually took off when Ben and Uncle Marvelous came up with the idea for Sweet'N Low. They positioned it first as an aid to diabetics, but dieters began swiping it from hospitals and restaurants, and soon the little pink packets had largely replaced not only the sugar dispenser but sugar