Earl Grey.. Tea bags??

To each his own I say. If Picard likes teabagging, who am I to criticize?

Tea bags are common in the USA. The pouring of hot water over tea leaves is just too 'danty' for us Americans to handle, and writers would think (correctly) that it would make Picard look too effeminate.

I love Earl grey tea..but get my balls busted regularly for drinking it..for some reason black coffee is the man's choice (which I drink also).

Bigelow tea (big in USA) is aware if this and it's ad campaign is TEA PROUDLY!

Which I think makes it worse.

Don't expect American mainstreamers to know how to make tea. They're all hopped up on coffee all the time.

I remember going to a tea tasting once and them describing that the tea in bags comes from the part that falls through the gaps of the conveyor belt onto the floor.

I remember in early internet days ST:TNG fans would argue that it was bad writing for Picard to order "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot" from the replicator. They said nobody would make iced tea from Earl Grey that a Frenchman like Picard wouldn't have ice tea, and you'd think he would program his replicator to make his tea the easy he liked on response to the simple command, "Tea".

Then in "All Good Things...", the writers spoofed those online arguments. When Picard asks Data's maid for, "Earl Grey. Hot.", Jessel tries, "Of course you want it hot, how else would you drink Earl Grey."