bagging, right?

I present you with the following quote from this morning's teabag wrapper:

"As long as it's hot and wet and
goes down the right way,
that's all that matters."

The Dutchess [sic] of York on tea-

Note the hyphen after "tea." I suspect they left a word out there. Or maybe "tea" just means something different in England — which, now that I think about it, would sure explain why they're so batty about it.