Tea drinking becoming a mug's game
Retailers have warned that the cornerstone of British social manners, the teapot, is dying out.
Sales have plummeted as people opt to make tea in their mugs – to the horror of polite society.
Debenhams, which is launching a campaign for "civilised" tea-drinking, said teapot sales had halved in the past five years, while demand for mugs had trebled. Tea served in a teapot and poured into China cups is the traditionally British way, but modern drinkers prefer what the retailer called a "lazier method".
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