I am sure if you checked at the Bucket residence you would find two things…
First that saucers are still very much in vogue and second that it is pronounced BOO-KAY
There was an article in the NYT today about how no one sees UFOs anymore - so the title of this thread was timely, if misleading to me.
We haven’t used the saucers we own for decades.
They all flew away.
I find that if you get a bit of the shell in the egg, it is easier to remove from a saucer.
Years and years ago, you tipped ones tea out of the cup into the saucer, held the teacup up, and sipped your tea from the saucer. The cup was just for mixing the milk and sugar.
Because the alternative is having all that leftover liquid spilling all over the table, or the placemats, or clothing, or the floor? It’s not rocket science.
If you use the rest of the shell, it’s not that hard to get that bit of shell. Plus, how do you get more than one egg in the saucer?
Heck, how do you get even ONE egg into a saucer, let alone beat it?
I don’t beat anything in a saucer. The egg is cracked into that and then placed in a mixing bowl (to ensure you aren’t adding a crook egg into other good ingredients.
Twickster, even with a piece of the shell it is easier to get it out of a saucer. You have more room to operate.
Maybe it’s getting harder to find saucers in the US because very few people have formal tea parties? I’m curious if in other countries (like the UK), cup-and-saucer sets are also difficult to find.
I remember that there was a thread asking why there are no more stories about alien anal probes. Aliens have stopped abducting humans and are now abducting saucers! :eek:
These are just pure speculation on my part and I might be wrong: Saucers might have served the same purpose as coasters (did I spell “coasters” correctly?). Also, I think it was considered ill-mannered to drink from your cup with the teaspoon still in the cup hence you place the teaspoon on the saucer before taking a sip.
Hmmm. I seem to remember someone doing that (crack open egg into saucer and then placing egg into a bowl) but I don’t remember if it was my mom (Ook! Cicero: Mom, is that you? 
) or if I saw it on TV.
Surely if you are an adult, you should know how far to fill a cup so you don’t accidentally spill anything. I mean, I don’t see any adults wearing bibs anymore or anything.
The coaster explanation is the only one I’ve heard that makes sense.
And I likewise use my saucers for smaller plates, like for salad or desert. They’re just the perfect size for that. It would never dawn on me to even need to have a saucer drinking any hot beverage*. I have coasters, and I don’t spill.
*Or cold, but surely you don’t use them with glasses.
Ah. So you’ve got two dirty dishes instead of one. No wonder I don’t do this. 
My dad likes lighthouses, so my mom bought him this set of dishes to amuse him. It comes with all the completely useless saucers you could ever want. The set comes in several other patterns too.
No, I am quite capable of that. The saucer is for the teaspoon to go onto, so instead of setting the wet teaspoon down on the table or the placemats, it goes onto something easier to clean. The teabag goes onto the saucer as well. I don’t want to stand over the sink fixing myself a cup of tea–I’d rather pour my hot water, then let it steep for a few minutes–I take my cup, with its saucer, to wherever I am sitting, and then I have a nice easy place to put my spoon and teabag.
This is exactly why I like saucers, except I’d have to change tea to coffee in most occasions.
I have an old, old cup that I use for egg checking. Its saucer was broken and tossed long ago. And even though I now have two dirty dishes instead of one, I only have to pitch out ONE rotten egg, instead of half a dozen if I crack a bad egg into the five good ones already in the mixing bowl.
All of my old saucers without matching cups do duty as cat dishes. The cats don’t care about whether they have matching cups and saucers. In fact, if there is tuna or chicken to be eaten, they don’t care about ANYTHING else.
Personally I can’t stand the cup & saucer combo. For me it’s an invitation to spill something. I also just can’t stand little delicate things of that nature. I like a reasonable coffee mug with a nice heft to it.
As something specifically designed to go with a specific cup, saucers aren’t normally sold by themselves, I would think. Would they sell you replacement cups and saucers together?
But dammit, I don’t want to keep pushing the spoon out of the way every time I take a sip. Or I wouldn’t, if I didn’t take my coffee black anyway.
Apart from any practical considerations, a saucer with a tea or coffee cup does have a traditionalist appeal, particularly ones that aren’t delicate porcelain heirlooms from Grandma, but plain old workaday affairs such as used prevail in cafes and diners until about fifty years ago. Non-dainty matching cups and saucers are still common in better restaurants whose owners want crockery in keeping with a traditionalist image but still sturdy enough to hold up to repeated use and machine washing. My wife and I were happy to find a few of this type recently at a thrift store, and will be looking for more.