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jmcquown
Nov 15, 2012, 12:59:49 PM11/15/12
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A photo of some of the tea cups I've got. I don't use these, they're a
display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father;
it was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
Quartet LOL
I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
worse, I just enjoy using them.
http://i1342.photobucket.com/albums/o776/jillmcquown/teacups.jpg
Jill
display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father;
it was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
Quartet LOL
I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
worse, I just enjoy using them.
http://i1342.photobucket.com/albums/o776/jillmcquown/teacups.jpg
Jill
MaryL
Nov 15, 2012, 1:54:26 PM11/15/12
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"jmcquown" wrote in message news:agkosp...@mid.individual.net...
What a nice collection. I like seeing beautiful cups that don't match
instead of everything matchy-matchy. It's ironic that I enjoy looking a
pretty cups so much because I don't like coffee or tea. I only drink
water--that's actually what I want, not some sort of weird diet requirement.
I did like fruit juice but gave that up when I was diagnosed with diabetes.
MaryL
Ed Pawlowski
Nov 15, 2012, 2:09:00 PM11/15/12
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"jmcquown" <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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tea drinker so we don't make a pot, just a mug.
Coffee and tea are generally served in mug, both for our use and for
company. The cup and saucer are very classy and elegant though.
Cheri
Nov 15, 2012, 2:14:29 PM11/15/12
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your picture. I love pretty tea cups, and enjoy drinking tea from them.
Cheri
Kalmia
Nov 15, 2012, 4:34:46 PM11/15/12
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On Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:59:55 PM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
> A photo of some of the tea cups I've got. I don't use these, they're a
>
> display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father;
>
> it was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
>
> Quartet LOL
>
>
>
> I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
>
> porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
>
> worse, I just enjoy using them.
Cousin had a nice collection - I recall when you could buy a bone china cup and saucer for 5 bucks. Now I think they run about 40? She had one commemorating
> A photo of some of the tea cups I've got. I don't use these, they're a
>
> display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father;
>
> it was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
>
> Quartet LOL
>
>
>
> I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
>
> porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
>
> worse, I just enjoy using them.
the ER II Coronation. Her collection was were strictly for display, but she did use them once for someone's post funeral collation - back in the days when the bereaved returned to the home of the deceased for petit fours, coffee and tea. Now, the houses are usually in disarray and the mourners and the other gawkers all pile into a resto, at great expense to the next of kin/host.
jmcquown
Nov 15, 2012, 7:46:59 PM11/15/12
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Jill
Cheryl
Nov 15, 2012, 7:52:39 PM11/15/12
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On 11/15/2012 1:54 PM, MaryL wrote:
> What a nice collection. I like seeing beautiful cups that don't match
> instead of everything matchy-matchy. It's ironic that I enjoy looking a
> pretty cups so much because I don't like coffee or tea. I only drink
> water--that's actually what I want, not some sort of weird diet
> requirement. I did like fruit juice but gave that up when I was
> diagnosed with diabetes.
Hi Mary. I'll have to get a photo of my mom's collection when I'm over
> What a nice collection. I like seeing beautiful cups that don't match
> instead of everything matchy-matchy. It's ironic that I enjoy looking a
> pretty cups so much because I don't like coffee or tea. I only drink
> water--that's actually what I want, not some sort of weird diet
> requirement. I did like fruit juice but gave that up when I was
> diagnosed with diabetes.
there on Saturday. She has two wall cabinets my dad made for her to
display them. I think they came from her mother.
Farm1
Nov 15, 2012, 11:03:10 PM11/15/12
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>A photo of some of the tea cups I've got. I don't use these, they're a
>display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father; it
>was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
>Quartet LOL
>
> I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
> porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
> worse, I just enjoy using them.
Nice collection!
>display my mom had set up. The pink & white one belonged to my father; it
>was his grandfather's mustache cup. Pink & white, think Barber Shop
>Quartet LOL
>
> I have some tea cups I do use. I like drinking hot tea from a pretty
> porcelain cup with a saucer. It doesn't make the tea taste better or
> worse, I just enjoy using them.
I'd use all of them with pleasure but that Moustache cup does looks like
it's almost too thick walled for my likes. I believe that both tea and
coffee do taste better when drunk from bone china. I don't drink tea at all
unless I can drink it from a bone china cup, not a mug wehter fine bone or
not.
I have my tea very weak and black and I like it hot. Thick walled mugs make
that sort of tea taste crappy TMWOT. And I also prefer my coffee (white
with 2) from a bone mug and that is why I have lots of them. I do drink it
in fat walled mugs if nothing better is on offer but I don't enjoy it from
such vessels - I just consider it as being warm and wet.
Ed Pawlowski
Nov 15, 2012, 11:28:39 PM11/15/12
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:10 +1100, "Farm1" <He...@there.sometimes>
wrote:
>I'd use all of them with pleasure but that Moustache cup does looks like
>it's almost too thick walled for my likes. I believe that both tea and
>coffee do taste better when drunk from bone china. I don't drink tea at all
>unless I can drink it from a bone china cup, not a mug wehter fine bone or
>not.
>
>I have my tea very weak and black and I like it hot. Thick walled mugs make
>that sort of tea taste crappy TMWOT. And I also prefer my coffee (white
>with 2) from a bone mug and that is why I have lots of them. I do drink it
>in fat walled mugs if nothing better is on offer but I don't enjoy it from
>such vessels - I just consider it as being warm and wet.
>
Use the thick walled mug, but pre-heat it first. Then it helps to
keep the beverage hot longer, rather than suck the heat from it. Fill
it with hot water for a few seconds to heat, dump and pour your coffee
or tea.
wrote:
>I'd use all of them with pleasure but that Moustache cup does looks like
>it's almost too thick walled for my likes. I believe that both tea and
>coffee do taste better when drunk from bone china. I don't drink tea at all
>unless I can drink it from a bone china cup, not a mug wehter fine bone or
>not.
>
>I have my tea very weak and black and I like it hot. Thick walled mugs make
>that sort of tea taste crappy TMWOT. And I also prefer my coffee (white
>with 2) from a bone mug and that is why I have lots of them. I do drink it
>in fat walled mugs if nothing better is on offer but I don't enjoy it from
>such vessels - I just consider it as being warm and wet.
>
keep the beverage hot longer, rather than suck the heat from it. Fill
it with hot water for a few seconds to heat, dump and pour your coffee
or tea.
MaryL
Nov 15, 2012, 11:29:17 PM11/15/12
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"Cheryl" wrote in message
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I would like to see that. I have a few very old pieces from my family, but
nothing that would form a collection. Some of them have a lot of
sentimental value--my great-grandfather's shaving mug, the baby dish of the
child who would have been my mother's oldest sister (she died at the age of
6, before my mother was born), a tiny porcelain cat that was my mother's
when she was a child, the kerosene lamp that my grandparents used for
several years after they were first married in the early 1900s, etc.
MaryL
pltrgyst
Nov 16, 2012, 9:30:56 AM11/16/12
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As counterpoint, we agree with a preference for nice, delicate vessels,
but we prefer mugs to thimbles. 8;) In fact, even when buying decent
china, we won't buy small, rounded cups, ever.
A few of the china and Scottish stoneware types we prefer:
http://www.xhost.org/images/Mugs1.jpg
-- Larry
but we prefer mugs to thimbles. 8;) In fact, even when buying decent
china, we won't buy small, rounded cups, ever.
A few of the china and Scottish stoneware types we prefer:
http://www.xhost.org/images/Mugs1.jpg
-- Larry
Gary
Nov 16, 2012, 4:56:04 PM11/16/12
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pltrgyst wrote:
>
> A few of the china and Scottish stoneware types we prefer:
> http://www.xhost.org/images/Mugs1.jpg
Just teasing here but also semi-serious, Larry... That cup on the far right
>
> A few of the china and Scottish stoneware types we prefer:
> http://www.xhost.org/images/Mugs1.jpg
looks kind of like a 16-oz 7-ll coffee cup to me. ;)
Gary
pltrgyst
Nov 16, 2012, 9:01:34 PM11/16/12
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in Scotland. 8;)
-- Larry
Farm1
Nov 17, 2012, 12:07:24 AM11/17/12
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"Ed Pawlowski" <e...@snet.net> wrote in message
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:10 +1100, "Farm1" <He...@there.sometimes>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'd use all of them with pleasure but that Moustache cup does looks like
>>it's almost too thick walled for my likes. I believe that both tea and
>>coffee do taste better when drunk from bone china. I don't drink tea at
>>all
>>unless I can drink it from a bone china cup, not a mug wehter fine bone or
>>not.
>>
>>I have my tea very weak and black and I like it hot. Thick walled mugs
>>make
>>that sort of tea taste crappy TMWOT. And I also prefer my coffee (white
>>with 2) from a bone mug and that is why I have lots of them. I do drink
>>it
>>in fat walled mugs if nothing better is on offer but I don't enjoy it from
>>such vessels - I just consider it as being warm and wet.
>>
>
> Use the thick walled mug, but pre-heat it first.
I don't like thick walled mugs even for Cup-a-soup.
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'd use all of them with pleasure but that Moustache cup does looks like
>>it's almost too thick walled for my likes. I believe that both tea and
>>coffee do taste better when drunk from bone china. I don't drink tea at
>>all
>>unless I can drink it from a bone china cup, not a mug wehter fine bone or
>>not.
>>
>>I have my tea very weak and black and I like it hot. Thick walled mugs
>>make
>>that sort of tea taste crappy TMWOT. And I also prefer my coffee (white
>>with 2) from a bone mug and that is why I have lots of them. I do drink
>>it
>>in fat walled mugs if nothing better is on offer but I don't enjoy it from
>>such vessels - I just consider it as being warm and wet.
>>
>
> Use the thick walled mug, but pre-heat it first.
jmcquown
Nov 17, 2012, 12:30:11 AM11/17/12
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I don't even know if my great grandfather used that mustache cup. I
just remember my dad saying it belonged to his grandfather. It was
probably just some collectible cup and saucer his grandmother acquired.
I think it's cute, but I don't have a mustache :) Didn't say I'd
attempt to drink out of it.
Jill
sf
Nov 17, 2012, 2:48:09 AM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:30:11 -0500, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> I don't even know if my great grandfather used that mustache cup. I
> just remember my dad saying it belonged to his grandfather. It was
> probably just some collectible cup and saucer his grandmother acquired.
> I think it's cute, but I don't have a mustache :) Didn't say I'd
> attempt to drink out of it.
>
I don't see why you couldn't! It would be like a grownup "sippy cup".
--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
wrote:
>
> I don't even know if my great grandfather used that mustache cup. I
> just remember my dad saying it belonged to his grandfather. It was
> probably just some collectible cup and saucer his grandmother acquired.
> I think it's cute, but I don't have a mustache :) Didn't say I'd
> attempt to drink out of it.
>
--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
jmcquown
Nov 17, 2012, 10:56:09 AM11/17/12
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Jill
S Viemeister
Nov 17, 2012, 11:22:49 AM11/17/12
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Ophelia
Nov 17, 2012, 11:24:56 AM11/17/12
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sf
Nov 17, 2012, 11:55:47 AM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:56:09 -0500, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:
I vote for hot chocolate, but you could always make a hot toddy - that
would be good too. :)
wrote:
would be good too. :)
jmcquown
Nov 17, 2012, 2:29:23 PM11/17/12
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cocoa powder, no added sweetener) in the pantry. I've got milk and
sugar. I could make a small pot of hot cocoa and drink it from the
mustache cup ;)
Jill
jmcquown
Nov 17, 2012, 8:12:11 PM11/17/12
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but we weren't wasn't raised that way. When my father died the funeral
director asked if we wanted a funeral wreath for the front door. I
gather this is a southern thing. No, thank you. What's the point?
Jill
Earl
Nov 17, 2012, 9:05:31 PM11/17/12
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Nov 17, 2012, 9:42:13 PM11/17/12
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Ed Pawlowski
Nov 17, 2012, 10:39:28 PM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:05:31 -0500, Earl <earl...@hotmail.com>
>> When my father died the
>> funeral director asked if we wanted a funeral wreath for the front
>> door. I gather this is a southern thing. No, thank you. What's the
>> point?
>>
>> Jill
>You're broke, eh?
I don't see that money has anything to do with it. It was a tradition
about 5 decades ago, but I would not want something like that.
My instructions to the family are very simple. Cremate me and spread
the ashes. No viewing. If you want to see me and you want to send me
flowers, do it now while I can appreciate your company and the
flowers.
>> When my father died the
>> funeral director asked if we wanted a funeral wreath for the front
>> door. I gather this is a southern thing. No, thank you. What's the
>> point?
>>
>> Jill
>You're broke, eh?
about 5 decades ago, but I would not want something like that.
My instructions to the family are very simple. Cremate me and spread
the ashes. No viewing. If you want to see me and you want to send me
flowers, do it now while I can appreciate your company and the
flowers.
Cheri
Nov 18, 2012, 1:33:37 AM11/18/12
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> My instructions to the family are very simple. Cremate me and spread
> the ashes. No viewing. If you want to see me and you want to send me
> flowers, do it now while I can appreciate your company and the
> flowers.
Cheri
jmcquown
Nov 18, 2012, 9:22:32 AM11/18/12
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saucers. Mom gave me half the collection 30 years ago. When I moved
here I didn't bother to unpack them.
Jill
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