I’m a Canuck, but my sister lives in the states. She started in Kentucky in the late ‘70s, and she said you guys didn’t have electric kettles back then. Is that true?
"electric kettles"?
Hmmm, maybe not in Kentucky (depends on the part of Kentucky, there have been a lot of National Geographic articles about some of those parts).
One of the two real old log cabins I have lived in was outside of a place called Isom, KY, back around 1962.
The house did not have electricity or indoor plumbing when we first got there, so an electric kettle would have been difficult to use.
Now, we were up in a holler 'bout a mile er so, but even in town most people didn't have indoor plumbing. I guess it wasn't a priority to anyone except my mom, who saw to it the place got electrified and plumbed without delay.
Because she had already been there and done that, the place we lived when us kids were born was off the grid, another real old log cabin in Oregon - but we did have running water there, through the magic of gravity and a convenient spring up the hill. Hot and cold, even.
But there, as in Kentucky, we didn't have any electric kettles.