A question about mugs

[tygryph]

I was talking with Brenda this morning; random tangents off of random tangents, and then we were talking about mugs. I have a tendency to collect oversized ones -- 12 oz or larger. One of my favorites is 16 or 20oz -- it can hold a can of soda and ice and still have space left -- with gold swirls on a red background. And it occurs to me as Brenda

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[aedifica]

I don't drink much soda at all, but I do drink cold drinks from a mug. Why not? Having my hands chilled holding a glass isn't much preferable to having them burned.

(Also, the drinking vessel I keep at work is a mug because I want it for tea, and so I also use it for water.)

[verymelm]

I drink soda and beer from mugs at events all the time. I have a wooden mug that is more or less all-purpose - coffee in the morning, water throughout the day, maybe a soda here or there, beer or mixed drinks (or hell, even wine) in the evening, etc. I love my wooden mug - it's lighter and far less breakable than ceramic and doesn't conduct heat or cold like metal.

I don't drink much soda or other flavored beverages throughout the day, so I tend to just drink water out of a 32-ounce Nalgene. If I drink soda at work during the day, it's straight from the bottle because I can reseal it and pretty rarely drink a whole bottle at once. At home, coffee or tea is in mugs in morning; in the evening, I drink milk out of a glass pint glass or tea from a mug. Beer is most often consumed out of the bottle, wine from wine glasses, scotch from rocks glasses.

[robocoon]

When I used to do SCA stuff with an old friend many moons ago, it was always mugs. They were really hardcore, though! At home I tend to stick to either resealable bottles to keep the fizz in, or for non fizzy things, plastic cups. I hate glassware.

[tygryph]

What if the drinks were served in lab glassware? Beakers and test tubes and flasks...

[robocoon]

Ohhh... ooh. Hmm....

I don't think I'd be able to say no to that. I have a collection of erlenmeyer flasks in my mom's house...

[tygryph]

yay erlenmeyer flasks!

I was given some actual lab glass specifically for such use. I need a few more pieces to be more scientific in my mixing. Graduated cylinder, a couple larger beakers... of course, I also need a lab coat and goggles. *insert maniacal laughter here*

And my mom got me a pair of these - http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/96c6/ - which are also fun.

[abasourdi]

Generally speaking I tend to drink cool liquids from see-through cups and warm/hot from opaque. This would likely be true also in the case of a glass mug (although I don't own one).

[readmore]

I used to drink Coke in a coffee mug often, so my kids didn't know I had Coke. Once they figured it out, they drank the Coke and all was lost....

and it didn't work on the grandkid. :)