WHAT?
If someone came over and you offered them a cup of coffee, would you really fill a mug 1/4 full and hand it to them? (our small coffee cups are 16oz., a large is 20-24oz.)
This is some craziness here. Is this some obscure Weights & Measures standard from 1844, or some weird “Our Mr.Coffee machine now brews you 12 cups of coffee!” trickery?
Our coffeemaker is supposed to make 12 cups – the top mark on the water reservoir. In order to get 12 cups of brewed coffee, the reservoir has to be overfilled by about one cup.
A traditional “coffee cup” (think Folger’s commercial: cup and saucer served to guests in the living room, set out at the “coffee table”, add sugar cube and stir in creamer) is about 5-6 fluid oz.
So many things wrong with that:
Who are you inviting over to your house? Your granny’s bridge club? Those teeny cups are over-the-top snooty, and barely a couple of sips.
Sugar cubes? Never actually seen anyone use them in real life. Do you also serve Splenda cubes, and Equal cubes… and Stevia cubes for the healthier people?
The most egregious sin here: “Creamer”? Do you know what’s in there? Why not just serve your guests a bowl of dubious chemicals? Buy some real cream, man! (And oat milk for the lactose-intolerant vegans)
Lastly…Folger’s? Really? If you don’t have real coffee in your house, you don’t deserve friends, so no need for hoity-toity “child-size cups”. Just drink your instant Folger’s with powdered Coffee-Mate in your duct-taped recliner, like the hermit you should be.
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There is a dessertspoon, but I’ve never seen it used in a recipe.
- A unit of measure, being equivalent to two teaspoons or two-thirds of a tablespoon, or approximately 10 millilitres.
That is why he never has a second cup of coffee at home!
We’ve had friends stop over with their kids to see/ride our horses. For some reason people bring sugar cubes and carrots with them. Other than that I’ve never seen sugar cubes.
Any cafe/tea room in England will have a bowl of sugar cubes and some tongs.
Actually, not always the tongs.
I’ll have you know my recliner has no duct tape.
You’re obviously one of those people who will not drink coffee whose beans didn’t pass through the alimentary canal of a malaysian tapir first.
Bowls of sugar cubes were ubiquitous, in diners at least, through midcentury, and then faded out at some point in the 1970’s I think. For awhile there they were individually wrapped. As a child I loved them. I remember in Home Ec in 7th grade, one lesson was biscuits fancied up with an orange-juice-soaked sugar cube embedded in the tops. Seriously. This was 1968.
With modern knowledge of how common insulin resistance is in older horses, sugar cubes are not a traditional horse treat any more. Carrots are still usually okay. I give my horses raw peanuts in the shell for treats.
I use sugar cubes. They’re neater and easier to measure than granulated sugar.
It’s a civet, not a tapir.
Heh. We give raw peanuts in the shell to the Bluejays and squirrels. The horses get horse treats (no idea what is in them) from Tractor Supply.
You just haven’t tasted the tapir one.
Everybody loves peanuts. The goats, the dogs, the chickens …
That was about the time that there was a huge spike in the price of sugar (I can’t remember exactly why), and people started stealing the sugar from restaurants. They switched to sugar shaker/pourers.
Still? (Honest question - you may use tea rooms more often than I do).
I remember reading some time ago that the reason you don’t see sugar cubes as often as you used to is that it’s a hell of a lot easier to fill sugar into a sachet than it is to mold, handle and pack cubes. (Not least because sachet filling technology is so ubiquitous these days.)
A brief search didn’t produce a cite to this effect, however.
I’ve certainly seen sugar sachets is National Trust tea rooms recently.
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ETA: tough to feed to a horse, though
Possibly not ! Now i think about it, it’s maybe 20+ years since i was in one !
Probably just old fashioned posh tea rooms that have cubes now.
I suspect the decline of sugar cubes in public settings may have also coincided with the Tylenol poisoning incident in 1982, and the subsequent increase in safety-sealed food products.