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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2010 21:02:57 GMT
I never thought about how certain flavors leak out through transparent glass (it happens with soup, too).
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Post by Jazz on Apr 6, 2010 22:07:35 GMT
I hate drinking anything from a plastic, paper or styrofoam cup. Coffee and tea are fine in glass or ceramic etc, for me. This is one design I love,
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Post by gertie on Apr 11, 2010 10:05:12 GMT
Looses flavor through glass? Perhaps as I never use it for coffee and soups, I've just never experienced this. Hate styro and those horrid plastic party drinking cups. Jazz, those do look smart! I've never seen the ketchup thing, but I have seen someone apply a thick cover of mayonnaise over the top of their salad. -*bleh*-
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Post by Kimby on Apr 12, 2010 14:50:15 GMT
Wondering how the heck you are supposed to use this one? With a straw? If you picked it up (assuming you COULD pick it up) wouldn't the "swoop" poke you in the ear? Or the collarbone? The second one was nice, though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 20:57:00 GMT
Jazz = odd table behaviour
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Post by Jazz on Apr 12, 2010 21:45:46 GMT
hmmm...Kimby and Kerouac...The use is an obscure and ancient tradition. You pick the cup up from the saucer (the wavy base) and drink. The cup is not attached to the saucer.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 13, 2010 2:07:35 GMT
I had an Eli Lily Seconal™ coffee mug that a friends dad got as doctor shwag that I loved but it eventually got dropped. Never failed to amuse me.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 13, 2010 3:45:29 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2010 16:22:49 GMT
thanks Jazz, those pictures are much more helpful.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2010 16:24:40 GMT
I don't know if it qualifies as odd behavior, but I have my morning coffee every day in the same mug I've been using since I was 16 years old. Which makes it about 40 years old. I have yet to drop it, though I did knock it over once on the marble-tiled hearth and made little crackles in the glaze which don't affect its ability to hold coffee.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2010 16:38:56 GMT
Well, you probably have little crackles on your own glaze by now, too, don't you?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2010 16:42:33 GMT
Good one, K (kicks his shins under table!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2010 21:38:48 GMT
I think it's detention time for the pair of you!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 15, 2010 13:19:03 GMT
Putting one's feet up on the table is a no-no, no matter how pretty.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 16:59:02 GMT
I think it's detention time for the pair of you! So, do you rub your face with ghee every day?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2010 18:54:54 GMT
and do you rub your hands with glee, K2, as you sit at your keyboard?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 19:54:32 GMT
Kimby, I have some plates,glasses,that I am very partial to as well. I can be very picky about what I eat off of when given a choice of what plates I have available to do so. It makes my husband a little bit crazy I'm afraid... (although,his mother was the same way...) I also have a coffee mug that a potter made expressly for me,it is for a left handed person,and no one 'gets' to use it but me. I know,strange,but 'tis true. Jazz,I love your mug and plate design.Wonderful lines. I wonder about storage of though,more than one,how do they go in a cupboard?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2010 20:26:10 GMT
Kimby, I have some plates,glasses,that I am very partial to as well...I also have a coffee mug that a potter made expressly for me, it is for a left handed person, and no one 'gets' to use it but me. MY mug - keep your mitts off! The errant houseguest who accidentally takes this mug from the cupboard can quickly recognize her error by the stricken look on my face. (I'm still working on mastering the focus trick bixa taught me!)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 20:35:24 GMT
I use mismatched crap with no sentimental value. It's better that way.
I have seen too many family members cry over such things the day they are broken.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 21:20:00 GMT
Putting one's feet up on the table is a no-no, no matter how pretty. What if I say pretty please?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 21:21:57 GMT
I think it's detention time for the pair of you! So, do you rub your face with ghee every day? Of course, well more with glee and an evil smirk. ;D Kimby: and do you rub your hands with glee, K2, as you sit at your keyboard?hahaha.....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 23:30:06 GMT
MY mug : note thumb rest on the LEFT,designed for left hand. I have lots of mix matched china and a good set of bone china. I am more particular about the mix matched stuff because it is stuff I picked out. The 'good' stuff was passed down to me and although, I do use it when entertaining,I'm not mad about it. It breaks,it breaks... I do get irked when my husband puts something in the microwave that's not microwave safe and it smashes all over. I am irked more by his carelessness than the loss of a dish.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 5:59:43 GMT
I am more fragile at breakfast than at other meals, so I had to avert my eyes from the old man in pyjamas. This in itself is sufficient to create nightmares for many people ("I dreamed that I was in the meal room and everybody else was fully dressed except me in my pyjamas."). His pyjamas were blue with teddy bears floating around. He made himself a big cup of tea, and then he added a package of hot cocoa mix to the tea. But this was not enough, because he poured cereal on top at the end. It must have been good, because went back to the buffet for a refill later.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 18, 2010 14:30:42 GMT
Was this where your mum lives, or at a hotel?
That is a frightening image.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 16:59:33 GMT
This is in my Avignon suburban motel.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 24, 2010 13:21:37 GMT
Not putting one's chair back under the table after a meal is starting to drive me bonkers! But I recently noticed that I'm doing it too.
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Post by joanne28 on Aug 23, 2010 15:16:31 GMT
Don, have you started putting other people's chairs back under the table? That's a sign you're on the slippery edge of the slope.
For years I used to stir my coffee before drinking, even though I drink it black and always have. I guess it was a "Monkey see, monkey do" thing.
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Post by gertie on Aug 29, 2010 4:18:40 GMT
I thought I would drop in a perhaps interesting bit I recently learned that sort of pertains to the original post about not wanting bones on your plate. A friend inherited the family china and silver, which dates back to at least the Victorian period. Someone, she thought an old aunt, had helpfully added papers in each of the neat little form-fitting bags holding the items in a charming antique script listing what each item was, along with where it should be set on the table and how used. Those Victorians seemed to have thought of everything. Special spoons for grapefruit, tongs for eating asparagus, special server for celery. Among the salad plates, dessert plates, bread plates, etc. was a packet of small, sort of oblong plates labeled as being bone plates, to be used to set aside the bones and other inedible parts of certain meats.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 13, 2010 13:46:06 GMT
Though my parents eat on plastic dishes, they always set a communal bone plate or bowl in the center of the table for everyone to put their inedibles in. Perhaps we feel more "civilized" when we don't have bones, skin and gristle on our plates.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 15:02:52 GMT
I regularly add grenadine or another syrup to diet soda. That makes a lot of sense.
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