Maybe drinking cups should be sized like bras, the A cup
would be like those little cups they use at the dentist or
in your bathroom, the B cup would be a small cup of tea, the
C cup would be the standard 8 oz., and then the FFF would be
for beer at the ball game.



"Grumman-581" wrote
in message
news | On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:41:57 +0000, in
,
| Alan Gerber wrote:
| Well, espresso is served in those tiny little "cups",
right? That's
| probably what they meant.
|
| OK, this got me a bit curious, so I did a bit of
measuring... My normal
| coffee "cup" is basically cylinder shaped with
approximately a 2-7/8"
| inside diameter and a 3-7/8" height... Leaving about 3/4"
from being full
| so that I have room to add sugar and cream to it in
addition to not
| spilling it while walking, I get 10 oz of coffee in it...
The little wimpy
| "cup" that Grace uses turns out to give exactly 8 oz with
the same basic
| space left at the top... Of course, if I'm seriously
caffeine deprived, I
| have mugs that are considerably larger... They'll probably
take the entire
| expresso pot and have quite a bit of room left over...
|
| I've got a four-cup coffee pot that makes two mugs of
coffee. It's
| theoretically four six-ounce cups, but it's actually
closer to five
| ounces each. I tried pouring water in from a measuring
cup instead of
| using the pot one time, and it went all over the
counter.
|
| Been there, done that... These damn companies need to
learn that if they
| are going to use the word "cup", it means 8 oz... These
little 2-3 oz
| espresso containers are not "cups"...