Cup & Saucer?

[Theland]

We have not used cups and saucers for years.
Anybody getting a brew in our house gets a mug with a picture or a logo on it.
What about you?

[tiggerblue10]

My mum has her China tea set in the display cabinet. We use mugs.

[dannyk13]

I still use a cup but no saucer.

[Theland]

Several houses ago we had dust collecting display cabinets with two fine China tea sets. We gave them all away.

[youngmafbog]

We use mugs, got loads of the ruddy things on, usually 'Daddy' or Grandad related.

we do keep one cup and saucer for my mum(when Boris deems fit to allow her over). At 91 she finds a mug a bit heavy and feels in control with a cup and saucer.

[hellywelly4]

No cups and saucers and no teapots. Just a mug and a teabag. More tea in a mug and less washing up.

[Prudie]

We use mugs but I will only drink mine (tea) from my personal fine bone china one. I can't use a thick pot one like everyone else has.

[burlyshirley]

Mugs for me too, but whenever I visited my Mum and Dad, lovely Mum always served me tea in a cup and saucer.

[Barmaid]

I've got bone china cups and saucers for when my parents/grandmother visit.

The rest of the time it is random assortment of mugs.

[eve1974]

Thelands question got me wondering why saucers were used in the first place?

Do u think they were to prevent tea spilling on the posh folks clothing back in ye ol’ days?

[burlyshirley]

For spillage when transporting the cup and saucer to the recipient, I think !

[DTCwordfan]

Mugs here - the one Lady J gave me (made by her fair hands) sacrosanct.....others can't use it.

[calmck]

Mugs with cups for posh events

[DTCwordfan]

eve - they used to drink tea out of saucers....

when you chucked one across the room at your partner and it became a 'frisbee,, then you had a flying saucer....

[DTCwordfan]

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-history-and-origin-of-the-cup-and-saucer

[aelmpvw]

//eve - they used to drink tea out of saucers....//
i can still remember the slurping noises

[barry1010]

Bone china cups and saucers here, they are big cups though.

[Jackdaw33]

Indeed. If one was in a hurry and the tea was too hot to drink people (mainly men) would decant it from the cup in the saucer to cool it down, often helping the process by fanning it with their flat cap.

[New Judge]

//Thelands question got me wondering why saucers were used in the first place?//

They are for putting your biscuits on before dunking and for putting the uneaten half on when you've dunked and ate the first half. I thought everybody knew that.

[Theland]

Don't dunk a Hobnob! They suck up all the tea before commiting suicide into the mug!

[choux]

Always drink out of bone china, tea in a cup and saucer,coffee in a mug. Tea is always made in a tea pot, have various sizes for a single cup or larger ones when having company. Standards are maintained in the house ;)