These monolithic bamboo cups are currently for sale on Etsy. They come to you live from about 45 or more years ago.
My question of the day is: What makes you a cup? Well, I would normally call these glasses, because of the taller, more serious shape, but they are not made out of glass. So, they are cups, right? Well, I picture a cup as sort of shorter and squattier. I don’t imagine a tall porcelain pilsner, if there is such a thing, would be called a “cup.”
According to Websters:
cup
–noun
1.a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable** from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
Technically, a GLASS can be a cup, but can a cup be a glass?
Let’s see. Under the definition for GLASS, we find:
4.a tumbler or other comparatively tall, handleless drinking container.
In otherwords, if I called these glasses, even though they are not glass, I would be completely correct as well.
Don’t worry about anyone chopping down bamboo and taking it away from pandas. As I have stated before, these are vintage. The tree might have croaked 50 years ago. Also, do you know how fast bamboo shoots up? It is invasive and you can never get rid of it if you tried.
There are six of these babies…plus a bonus cup (or glass or drinking receptacle) just in case you have a freeloader crash your dinner party. They are priced at $16.00 for the entire set!
Find them right here. Now that you found them, you just MIGHT want to buy them. They are really that cool.
** Yes, I copied this from Dictionary.com, and that is a typo. IN the dictionary!
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