Fact!
Higgins & Burke get the artwork for their tea packaging from rejected Harlequin Romance book covers. The girl on the Green Tea box was supposed to be used for the jacket of “Orient Espresso” — an erotic tale of steamy love and steamier beverages in the far east where hot romance only comes in venti size.

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