When pitching stores, hotels and restaurants, their demonstration often includes cutting open a paper tea bag, containing only broken leaves and tea dust, from a mass-market brand.

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In the "plaintiffs efforts to extricate the tea bag from its position of being wedged between the tilted paper 'hot cup' of extremely hot water and the shorter clear plastic soft drink cup, the extremely hot water spilled into her lap at her groin area, " the suit said.

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