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?

[Redhelen72]

I use cups and saucers on a regular basis for tea and coffee

[Jackdaw33]

Dunking biscuits was something you only ever did at home, never in public or at someone else's house as it was considered extremely bad manners. The same went for breaking bread into your soup bowl.

[choux]

redhelen has standards too ;)

[gness]

Tea has to be in a fine china cup. I like cups and saucers. Coffee I can take in a small mug if it's not too chunky.
Dave had quite a few thick, chunky mugs when we got together. They kept getting lost...one by one.
I blame the dishwasher. ;-)

[New Judge]

//Standards are maintained in the house ;)//

Quite right. Teapot (three sizes available) and loose tea in this house. I have to say we do use mugs though. I find tea gets cold far too quickly in small cups.

[diddlydo]

Tea and coffee in plain white bone china mugs - always. Tea in teapot with proper loose tea leaves - always.

[Jackdaw33]

I find the opposite. By the time I get to the bottom of the mug the tea is stone cold.

[Theland]

My one pint mug is emblazoned with the Union Flag.
My reserve 3/4 pint mug is Star Trek, emblazoned with Kirk and Spock, and the logo, ''Its life Jim, but not as we know it.''

[webbo3]

Mug of builders tea.

[Prudie]

Gness that made me laugh as I have done similar. when I got together with current husband he had inherited his family's love of Denby ware. I have gradually managed to accidentally break all the mugs, side plates and dinner plates he brought to the home, hate the stuff :-)

[Canary42]

Teapot and cup - no saucer.

[Redhelen72]

I always warm my cup up too with boiled water

[davebro]

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

For drinking the tea out of silly. Pour it from the cup into the saucer & slurp it up!

[gness]

And I thought I was the only one who heated up the cup too.... :-)

[Jackdaw33]

I use a mug, simply because I'm only brewing for one, yet I still put the mug on a saucer to avoid drips.

[eleanor2]

I have a bit of a cup fetish Theland, i like my cups. But no cups & saucers no.

[Redhelen72]

Lol not at all gness especially if using coffee cups as filter coffee is never really hot

[pastafreak]

I don't drink tea, but when I did, it was from a mug. Same with coffee. I have a collection of mugs, some look handmade or are hand painted. None have slogans on them or are twee. I can't remember when I last owned cups and saucers.

[EdmundD]

The saucer is a versatile piece of crockery - as pointed out earlier it is somewhere to put your undunked biscuit. Also your teaspoon and teabag (if using one). Possibly also sachets of sugar.

[gness]

It is a versatile piece, Edmund. If you're reading tealeaves a mug is useless.
You need the shape of a cup and a saucer on which to invert and turn the cup for a good reading.