1975: One LONG TEA BREAK in LONDON | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 

6:22 lol at that trophy. A tinfoil trophy on an old tobacco tin 🙃

This truly takes a long time, because to every food there is a taste and an after-taste, which literally takes a lot of time to do altogether.

Reminds me very much of what we actually do in the coffee business when tasting -- or 'cupping,' as we call it -- coffee. The attention to detail concerning the quality of the water, the weighing of the beans, and even having a good 'slurp' to aerate the liquor so that it evenly covers one's palate -- these things are all the same.

The spittoons used by Ridgeways London and seen in this film were made by Garrods of Barking, in east London. Using a unique combination of standard dustbin components, the body was made in the smallest diameter of 14” (35cm), normally used for the smallest ‘ash can’ (cinders), but at the tallest height of 30” (75cm) - the maximum of the longest ‘corrugator’, normally used for the largest 18” x 30” (45cm dia x 75cm high, 120 litre) dustbin - currently used on the London West End stage by STOMP...! Modifications included, handmade and soldered copper ‘cone’ to catch the ‘spit’ and soldered copper liner to contain the ‘spit’. The spittoon was made stable by mounting the 4 castors on legs made from half a mop-bucket cone welded upside-down on the side of the spittoon at the bottom. Garrods 18” and 16” dustbin lids were corrugated but the 14” lids were plain. Even though the plain 14” lid supplied with the Ridgeway spittoon was quite shallow, the slim, tall, corrugated body with sloping castor ‘wings’ at the base gave the overall appearance of a small space rocket...!

As long as it's wet n' warm...

Bailed after the 1st slurp !

This wins the prize for the most British thing ever!

1:20 A tea leaf I imagine.

The curly haired bloke reminds me of Alan Sugar. Amstrad Tea!

0.22 nice to see a young Emo Philips get his start.

This guy the taste tester must have ( of ) been the inspiration for Frank Spencer …😂❤

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If this was from 1975, why is it in black and white? BBC One was surely in full colour service by 1975.

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how advice out-dates......we now know boiling water in copper vessels toxifies it, terrible price that man who thought he knew it all was unknowingly paying

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What a boring job! Thanks God I love tea all types and not looking for any fine undefinable differences

Black and white in 1975?? C'mon!!!

How does water get "over boiled"?

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1975? why B&W? more like 1957 maybe

2:32 this is an April Fools or the guy is a charlatan, a tea taster will know the difference 'an over boiled kettle'. So when it gets to 100 degrees Celsius the boiling kettle water is ruined ??!?.