"Mephistopheles Jones" > wrote in message
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> I live in Los Angeles. Is there a retail store that carries the old
> school, conservative-looking tea pots. The whistling kind that is a basic
> stainless-steel cylinder, rounded at the top, with a conservative handle
> and spout. Not those quasi-futuristic thingamajigs at Target and Crate
> and Barrel, etc... I've searched high and low, and the best I found was a
> pot at Linens n Things with a copper bottom that makes water taste funny
> cuz apparently the copper soaks into the water (it's copper on the inside
> bottom as well as the outside bottom).
>
> It's so weird what happened to tea pots over the last coupla decades.
> They look like something kids would buy.
>
> Meph
>

Doesn't help you, but a local potter makes teapots that look like our dear
president Shrub - about as conservative as you can ask for. It's got 2
really big handles too.


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