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Old 09-02-2013, 02:38
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ISTR my parents having one but can't for the life of me remember what the hell it was for.
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Old 09-02-2013, 03:18
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tea leaves or coffee bean dispencer
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Old 09-02-2013, 03:25
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Wouldn't a jar/tin be better?

I dunno, these modern people are soooo lazy.
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Old 09-02-2013, 03:26
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Soap dispenser?
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Old 09-02-2013, 03:27
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
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Old 09-02-2013, 03:46
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Wouldn't a jar/tin be better?

I dunno, these modern people are soooo lazy.
remember this was in the 70 jars and that was not so well used.


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Old 09-02-2013, 04:05
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
Correct.

I searched one out a few years ago and it is still on my kitchen wall and used when I make tea in a teapot, not very often these days though - tend to use bags.

They are called 'tea misers' and dispense one teaspoon of tea every time you push the button.
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Old 09-02-2013, 07:04
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Blimey, that takes me back, we had one of those!
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Old 09-02-2013, 09:08
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
It was, I remember we had one on door on the inside of out pantry when I was a child.

Teabags went in to the top and you put the teapot underneath and press the lever in.

i know someone who still got one and uses it every day, no tea bags for her
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Old 09-02-2013, 09:42
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It was, I remember we had one on door on the inside of out pantry when I was a child.

Teabags went in to the top and you put the teapot underneath and press the lever in.

i know someone who still got one and uses it every day, no tea bags for her
My Gran still has hers on the side of her cupboard and uses it everyday
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Old 09-02-2013, 09:43
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We had one of those too!.
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Old 09-02-2013, 10:12
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My Gran still has hers on the side of her cupboard and uses it everyday
I can understand a older person keeping one, but this person I know is late 40s, The one she have got used to be her parents.

Mind you she is like that, don't seem to got for a lot of modern food stuff, sticks with leaf tea, always fresh coffee, not a jar of instant in her house. buy all her fruit and veg from our local market and her meat from the Butchers. She grows as much as she can. gets her cheese and butter also from the market.

she goes into a supermarket only when she needs to and that is normally the Co-op, she thinks supermarkets are evil.

But technology wise it is a different thing, she got apple Macs, a pretty pricey music system, but she do tend to listen to Vinyl's most of the time.

Very strange person.
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Old 09-02-2013, 12:34
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Mind you she is like that, don't seem to got for a lot of modern food stuff, sticks with leaf tea, always fresh coffee, not a jar of instant in her house. buy all her fruit and veg from our local market and her meat from the Butchers. She grows as much as she can. gets her cheese and butter also from the market.

she goes into a supermarket only when she needs to and that is normally the Co-op, she thinks supermarkets are evil.

But technology wise it is a different thing, she got apple Macs, a pretty pricey music system, but she do tend to listen to Vinyl's most of the time.

Very strange person.
Sounds like an ideal person to me
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Old 09-02-2013, 12:39
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Sounds quite sensible to me
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Old 09-02-2013, 12:56
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Sounds like an ideal person to me
Sounds quite sensible to me
And me!
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Old 09-02-2013, 13:22
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It's a tea leaf dispenser.
Push the button and you get enough tea leaves for one cup of tea.
My nan used to have one in the 60's and 70's
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Old 09-02-2013, 16:22
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
Yup, we had a blue but always wanted the red one my Aunt had.
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Old 09-02-2013, 16:23
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Sounds like an ideal person to me
Me too.
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Old 09-02-2013, 17:40
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yes ~each push of the button on the front
~dispenses a tea spoon of tea leaves~into your tea pot
The tea leaf holding canister part ~was usually see through red perspex ~and the other parts were in white plastic and the device was on a bracket which was screwed securely onto the wall~or side of a cupboard
Many people had these years ago~
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Old 09-02-2013, 17:48
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Yup, we had a blue but always wanted the red one my Aunt had.
Ours was a sort of burgundy red one
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Old 09-02-2013, 18:57
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My auntie Irene had a red one, my auntie Peg a blue one.
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Old 10-02-2013, 01:50
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ISTR my parents having one but can't for the life of me remember what the hell it was for.
Its another piece of kitchinalia plastic junk that all us females have fell for....no matter what year we live in.
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Old 10-02-2013, 09:12
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http://www.yourvintagelifeblog.com/tag/tea-dispenser/

Ah, happy memories!
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Old 10-02-2013, 22:58
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I think it is just used to dispense loose tea, in the days before tea bags.
Yep - one press of the button equated to one spoon of tea.
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