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