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Breaking news: white man discovers tea.

Best part: the snarky editor notes.

(Editor’s note: It should be noted somewhere that high-quality bagged and loose-leaf teas are readily available to Americans in supermarkets all over the country.)

(A spokesperson said Segal was leaving to “dedicate more of his time to exploring other entrepreneurial interests,” though it was reportedly related to “infighting.”)

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My eyes about rolled out of my head and landed in my afternoon mug of tea, but the editor's snark is truly glorious!

There's a place for a company that aims to make tea a more popular choice with the workaday crowd, and I agree that most tea-drinkers of the sort I run into around here* drink terrible tea, but I don't think this guy is going to do it. XD

(I did check to see if the company was registered in/near Silicon Valley or Seattle, for the ultimate white-dude-discovers, but it's Canadian.)

*I emailed the person in our building who's in charge of arranging water deliveries, before the water service was cancelled because the shareholders were afraid they might make a few dollars less if they kept the employees happy and slashed budgets, and mentioned that the water here gave me tea with an obviously different flavor and color, but I don't think they really grokked the ABSOLUTEL UNACCEPTABILITY of that. I now own a thermal jug of some ilk and bring water in from home for drinking and tea-making and have discovered that it's so well insulated that if I put ice in the water in the morning and don't drink it all, there's still some ice left over 12 hours alter!

His previous company - still around - is called David's Tea, and Anna's all "Guess I'm gonna have to call it Cassidy's Tea now" and the intersection of people who will get both parts of this is miniscule but I lulzed pretty hard xD

And if you eat cheesecake everyday, at some point you grow apart from it

Clearly, his ignorance knows no bounds.

Truly!

Tea obviously needs a white, tech start-up man to disrupt its business.

So decades of tea drinking go down the drain... because clearly I WASN'T DOING IT RIGHT. (And I have had some pretty specialized tea at several points.)

I will let my family (which has consumed lots of tea over time, as well) know that, then! Thanks, tech-adjacent bro, for setting me straight.

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"“Crafted from 100% real ingredients, we are here to make tea the official drink of the 21st century,” the company states on its website. "

I should hope the tea is made from real ingredients as opposed to imaginary ones.

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