I said that about tbags to hubby !
The tea canister if you saw ( and I know
. ) Had a sliding thingy to pour tea,sugar,coffee out ! We definitely didn't ha 've tea bags ,my father would of had forty types of fits !
We had a dispenser on wall for tea leaves too,a bit like soap dispensers now.
My dad was very old fashioned
the only spice allowed in our house was all spice for the Christmas cake !
" none of that foreign stuff in here ! " meaning rice ( other than for puddings ),pasta anything that wasn't grown in Britain basically ! I was 19 before I had pasta and in my own flat