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catwoman73

Farway wrote: »

Oh yes, those were the days, boiling up the nappies in the Baby Burco

And agree, why was hubby using tea bags? No such things then, except maybe in US

I thought they should have had a teapot rather than individual cups - I'm still surprised at people that don't use them now if they drink tea regularly.

Didn't pick up on the teabags, the 1960s is before my time. I think they have always been more or less mainstream within my living memory (I'm 41).

Callie22

JackieO wrote: »

Very true I went to Switzerland in August 1961 and saw my first tea bag and also a very bluey/green colour TV.When I came home and told my Mum about this sticking a small envelope with tea into a glass of hot water (thats how it was dished up then ) she almost fell over laughing 'No one will ever be daft enough to do that ,what a waste,' she said. Two spoons and one for the pot made a large pot of tea far more economically,plus if you had Brooke Bond tea you saved the stamps off the front of the packet and when your card was filled up you sent it off and got a 5/- postal order back :):)

I was born in the late 70s and I have to admit that as a child I'd never seen loose leaf tea and didn't know what to do with it. I was given a packet when I was about seven and made my grandad a pot of tea with it. I thought that the leaves dissolved in the tea pot so I just poured the tea and grandad ended up with a very chewy cup of tea!

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My late Mum had a very large brown tea pot for years, and it was always one spoon from the tea caddy for each person plus one for the pot which once made, everyone had a cuppa out of it, and refilled with boiling water and left to brew you got a second cup as well :):),any dregs were saved and used in the garden round the base of flowers to hold water in or dug in as a fertiliser .nowt got wasted in our house back then.The reason dust-bins were so called was that is what they were full of dust from the Ewbank carpet sweeper, and maybe the ashes grilled from the bottom of the kitchen range.very few tins as were didn't eat a lot of tinned stuff and the bottles were usually used for something else jam jars were either reused for HM jam in the summer or taken with my brothers soap-box trolley to Robertsons Jam factory in Catford where if they were their brand the warehouse chap would give you a penny each for them Highly prized, and often children would knock on the door and ask for any old jam jars to supplement their pocket money.
Enterprising lot back in the 1950s we all knew the value of a shilling lemonade bottle of Tizer bottles you got 3d on when returned to the pop-shop or if you were lucky and found beer bottles you got cash on those as well.

6d was enough to get you into the cinema so most London children I knew had eagle eyes always on the look out for empty bottles.

You never walked past a phone box without checking to see if there was any cash to come back from pressing button 'B' or looking to see if any had been dropped or left in the little cash holder at the front of the phone box :):)
we were all canny little devils in those days

7roland8

Gosh we never saw teabags in 60s.


Our 'innovation' was a red clear plastic caddy on the wall and you could press a button to get one spoon full out at a time - now that was modern!!

From Tea Infusion Association:
It was Tetley in 1953 that drove the introduction of tea bags in Britain, but other companies soon caught up.
In the early 1960s, tea bags made up less than 3 per cent of the British market, but this has been growing steadily ever since.
By 2007 tea bags made up a phenomenal 96 per cent of the British market.

Gigervamp

My nan had one of those!

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Gigervamp wrote: »

My nan had one of those!

I had one of those as well :):)

thriftwizard

My Mum would have no truck with teabags until very recently; she & Dad lived in Sri Lanka for most of the 1950s, and she "knew" that teabags were made with the sweepings from the tea factory floor!

Must admit we've been re-thinking them since we discovered that most of them are made with plastic, so they can just be heat-sealed shut...

There's a wonderful story about a certain Archbishop, back in the 60s; one morning the cook went into the kitchen & found him laboriously snipping open teabags and pouring the contents into the teapot, one by one. "I do wish they wouldn't put tea in such tiny packets nowadays!" he complained...

7roland8

Thriftwizard - never thought of that. Just found info here - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/02/teabags-biodegradeable makes me want to go back to packet tea - or else open the bags!

Liz3yy

I'm looking forward to the 80's week. I was born in 78 and remember the tail end of the 80's fondly. Every Saturday without fail Mum would feed us pot noodles as a "treat" for tea. We had a Bernard Matthews Turkey roast joint thing for Sunday lunch followed by Angel Delight too, those were the days.....

moneyistooshorttomention

thriftwizard wrote: »

My Mum would have no truck with teabags until very recently; she & Dad lived in Sri Lanka for most of the 1950s, and she "knew" that teabags were made with the sweepings from the tea factory floor!

Must admit we've been re-thinking them since we discovered that most of them are made with plastic, so they can just be heat-sealed shut...

There's a wonderful story about a certain Archbishop, back in the 60s; one morning the cook went into the kitchen & found him laboriously snipping open teabags and pouring the contents into the teapot, one by one. "I do wish they wouldn't put tea in such tiny packets nowadays!" he complained...

Ooooh.....are they? Errrm....I don't drink standard tea...but I do drink herbal teabags....and always assumed they were made of paper.

Do you know if this is the case with herbal teabags too? Have you got any links about this please?

(I do like my Twin*ngs Lemon and Ginger Tea...but have several others at intervals).