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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-15T08:31:52.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I'm not sure you've sent this to the right blog but this is true. You can still get tea in these bricks (I've got one of pu-erh) - Paper",
  "title": "I remember learning about how tea during the colonization of the Americas was sold in these flat bricks of compressed leaves. It makes me imagine the colonists behind the Boston Tea Party chucking them like Frisbees into the harbor. If you’re wondering how people used these tea bricks, they’d just shave some off when they wanted to make tea."
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