Expensive teabag!!
 

A diamond cuppa




PG Tips has commissioned a diamond and gold teabag to celebrate its 75th birthday.

The innovative item brings a different meaning to having expensive tastes, with the teabag said to be the most expensive in the world.

Jewellers Boodle and Dunthorne have created the item, which is the standard pyramid shape, filled with 100 2.25-carat diamonds and fine, limited edition tea leaves.

The rest of the bag includes 100 diamonds and a white gold chain in place of the standard teabag string, which is also adorned with a further 80 diamonds

Costing £7,500 to produce, the teabag costs slightly more than the brand's typical production budget of 2.5p for each mass-produced tea bag.

"When PG Tips first asked us to make the tea bag we were a little taken aback," Maria Webster, who designed the item, admitted in the Liverpool Daily Post.

"Initially it was going to have a mesh of gold and make it a replica, but the decision was made to take a tea bag, which only costs 2.5p, and add diamonds to it. We do get some unusual requests…but this was certainly one of the strangest."

The teabag will now go on a nationwide tour to promote the brand and it will then be used as part of a prize draw to raise money for Manchester Children's Hospital.

PG Tips spokesman Pete Harbour said: "As it's our 75th birthday, we wanted to do something special to remind people just how much they love the great British cup of tea."

Over 150 million cups of tea are consumed in the UK each day and 35 million of these are PG Tips.http://directnews.dehavilland.co.uk/...itemid=7883919

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That's how i read it as well Willow, Bet it won't get thrown in compost with the other's....

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Irrespective, can we be expected to receive one in our box of PG. I we are then I need to stop buying Yorkshire tea.

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I was thinking the same Doug!!!hehehehe:rolleyes:

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I'll share it with you Slinky. If you get it first just post it too me and I'll look after it for us......

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SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA if I had a different colour of hair than brown (get my drift)

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Touchy little Slinky. :p Are you suggesting there's something wrong with our lighter haired sisters by chance. lol.

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WOULD I DOUG??:blink8:

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I'm on dodgy ground here aren’t I?

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LMAO DOUG you crack me up!!:D

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:eek: I’m not sure you can use “LMAO” and “crack me up” in the same sentence. It may be misconstrued as being rude. :o And it doesn’t have anything to do with teabags lol :rolleyes: (Get my Drift) :p

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I'm getting your drift LOUD AND CLEAR!!:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38:

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bY THE WAY ARE YOU A POET AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT??

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:o Prick more like lol. I thought I'd get that one in before anyone else :rolleyes: .

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Damn Doug you are so modest!!!

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:blush8: me, oh my.............. :rolleyes:

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THAT explains it!!!

There was a report in the national press today about Paul Thatcher, a homeless tramp who spent the night in a primary school at Henley on Thames and was arrested and charged with the theft of ONE teabag!

He has been remanded in police custody until March 11th.......and may be sent down for his crime when he reappears in court in 13 days time:mad:

His actual charge was "Stealing a beverage of value unknown." My first thought was that surely SOMEONE in the court could divide £1.65 by 160?? and besides, he didn't actually steal the teabag, he merely used it and it was left on the premises.

If he knicked the diamond and gold teabag, it would explain a lot but I have a sneaking suspicion that the police have reached a new depth in egotistical depravity by detaining this man............