CUP AND MUG Today afternoon my wife gave me a few ripen mango cutpieces to eat after meals. This was in a plastic cup, use and throw type, and washaving a handle to holdat the top.
This attracted me very much. If in the trains, servingcoffee, tea, function halls giving coffee, tea, cool drinks etc. were of thistype, holding the paper cup would have been easier. I have thought mugs also come in this manner in PVC to useand throw manner. Our workmen require mugs, after their works, if at all washedand given, still some adherence could be there of the item used in it. I havekept a separate mug on this account, exclusively for work men. An interesting look in to cups and mugs. This posting is for a casual reading. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 3-7-2021. 1 Mug Mugs were there even from my school days when plasticstarted appearing. Mugs were commonly used to bath infants and kids. Some kidsused to pour water by themselves during bath using mug. When kids were taken to river/ponds, they were bathed by parents and were asked to sit on a top bathing ghatstep. Mugs were used to take water and bathe them keeping them in the riverghat step near to water . During washing of clothes, water was used to take in mugand pour on the cloth as required whileapplying soap on the clothes. It was the period, washing machine was not heardof. Mugs were convenient to keep soap dish, toothbrush,tongue cleaner, washing soap etc. in the plastic bucket with cloths for washing.At one time in villages we could never see a person without a bucket and muggoing to bathing Ghats. Mugs have handle, often by taking heavier item in amug, it was common, a handle break at the neck. Normally they never break. Whatever the quality of pvc/plastic mug, their shining disappear after certaintime. However mug is an essential itemin bath rooms, for shaving, to keep water, and in kitchen for miscellaneous works. There is a taboo for the mug. A person may drink water from aplastic glass, but not from a mug made of plastic, whatever is the cleanliness.Only exemption is a person is very thirsty and water is given in a mug. His place is near wash basins, bath room, kitchen etc.In the kitchen many times mug is used to transfer water from main cane to other vessels . The handle strength depend on the size of mug eitherhalf liter water or 3/4th liter of water it can take. For children’splay there are toy mugs also. If at all handle was broken, mug was used for differentworks. Now mostpurchase a new mug. In fact most homes may have 2-3 mugs in store. When guests come, new mugs and new buckets areprovided in bath rooms. 2.PVC/Plastic/Paper cups In higher classes of trains, tea and coffee wereserved in flask along with cup and saucer . In railway stations stainless glasswas used to give coffee and tea. How vendors supplied them, I am not able torecollect. Now mostly PVC coated paper cups are used to servecoffee and tea even in 3rd AC coaches. Unless the PVC coating is notthere, coffee might not hold. So present day’s paper cups are actually notpaper alone. If coffee is too hot a second cup is attached to first and servedby some caterers. The water cups to serve hot water in indigo flights are really good. Though use and throw type, Iwas using it as ball point pen holder without throwing it out. Now it is kept inside a regular pensholder For serving ice cream etc. quality plastic cups are used. Though use andthrow type, many keep quality ice creamcup with good lids for miscellaneous storage. Water, buttermilk, apple juice etc. can be given topassengers in plastic cups use and throw cups. PVC is slightly more costly. Nowcool drink shops also have only PVC coated large glasses to serve them. Plasticglasses have disappeared. Now our caterers use the PVC coated cups to servecurd, payasam etc. during dinner. Water is served in water bottle. With the principle of use and throw , still metalglass and dabara in brass is used to serve Kumbakonam filter coffee in thestalls along NH. Of course after each use they wash with care. In restaurantsalso tumbler and dabara is used. Ceramic ware is used in Iranian restaurants to servecoffee, tea. Indian coffee houses serve in ceramic ware most of the fooditems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1510611908.521130.1625330615251%40mail.yahoo.com.
