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Ceramic Greek Coffee Cup
Back before there was a Starbucks on every corner, practically every diner in Manhattan served coffee in small blue-and-white paper cups decorated with the legend “We Are Happy to Serve You.” (Really? Somebody should tell the guy behind the cash register that.) Now that everyone buys gigantor $7 cups of caramel crappucino with sissy jackets and sippy cup lids, the little cups aren’t quite so ubiquitous. Except at my house, where I drink my drip coffee from the Ceramic Greek Coffee Cup, a fancy breakable version of the classic.
The Ceramic Greek Coffee Cup is pleasantly heavy in the hand and sized just right if you want a cup of coffee, that is, an 8-ounce serving with maybe a little bit of cream. No room for steamed milk or caramel syrup, sorry. If you wanted a cup of cream and sugar, why’dja ask for coffee?
Ceramic Greek Coffee Cup, $12.
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I have this, and it's cute but gets REALLY hot. Watch your hands!
What leek said.
DCI makes "I am not a paper cup..." which has a lid and is double walled ceramic, so your hands don't get too hot and the contents stay hot longer:
http://www.dcigift.com/product.cfm?pr...
Can somebody tell me where I can order the real thing? (I mean: paper cups and lids!) I would love to have these in L.A.
Since they're ubiquitous in NYC, why not call up an NYC paper goods supplier? They should have thousands of them.
Can't say I have fond memories of the COFFEE in those cups (I'm old enough to remember when a person would ask "Starbucks who?" here in NY). I roast my own coffee these days, but this sounds at least like an amusing item to have. But I wish it was at least 12-16 ounces--I take it black/unflavored/no sugar, but 8 oz isn't enough!
+1 on what leek said.
We got ours from Perpetual Kid. www.perpetualkid.com
Those have been around for a while, but they are still just as amusing!
Still, I remember the coffee in those things as anything but. Alas.
Cheers!
As far as I can tell, if you want the paper version it's called the Anthora cup, available from Sherri Cup Inc, in Kensington Connecticut.
There's a history from '98 here about the cups and variations:
http://www.nytrash.com/cups/
If you want to pay a lot for a paper cup, you can order them locally (NYC locally, that is) from New York First Company:
http://www.newyorkfirst.com/gifts/707...
I wish the ceramic version was double-walled, but it seem the designers are done with the project.