[at-l] why...

[jplynch at crosslink.net (Jim)]

hmm.  maybe, but after-dinner coffee is still served in a cup and saucer 
in restaurants.  As another thought, I remember that my grandparents 
would drink coffee in a cup and saucer and pour the coffee in the saucer 
to cool it.  (Probably dating myself :) ).  Mugs, styrofoam cups and 
travel cups are a fairly recent 'invention'. 

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>>I think its a "cup and saucer"  "cup".  Sort of anachronistic is this 
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>That's for tea...nobody can finish 8 oz. of tea to begin with...and, nobody 
>who drinx coffee uses a 'saucer'. The only thing you use a saucer for is if 
>you're only eating one hotdog at a time. 
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>>>Why do coffee-maker companies think that people drink 5 oz. 'cups' of
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>>>I don't know if I've ever even seen a '5 oz. cup'. I'm just sayin'..
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