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Originally Posted by llcj
I doubt that it's a tea thing. Tea was never popular where and when I grew up yet electric kettles were ubiquitous.
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Assuming you're right, that might suggest it wasn't a tea thing where and when you grew up, but perhaps not in all of Canada, which does look to lean more than the US toward tea
on the tea/coffee scale.
The 'multiple factors' I mention might also include how people prefer to make their coffee. Maybe people in places where they tend to like French presses and poor-over buy more kettles than those that skew toward automatic drip and percolators, which have been the dominant methods in most of the US. I have no idea how Canadians make their coffee.
By the way, what were the kettles mostly used for where and when you grew up?