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Our grandparents used to drink coffee from cups roughly 2dl in size, i.e. 6 oz -- which still is the official coffee cup definition. Nowadays, typical coffee cu
by darthrupert 3y ago
Our grandparents used to drink coffee from cups roughly 2dl in size, i.e. 6 oz -- which still is the official coffee cup definition. Nowadays, typical coffee cups are double that, and some people use triple-sized or even larger.
I guess the lesson is that we overindulge on everything we can unless we have considerable self-discipline. Bad thing about coffee is that we don't often recognize this habit as needing to be disciplined.
- quantified 3y agoDrink a 7-11 Big Gulp of coffee every day, and yeah it'll hurt you. But an 8-10oz mug a day isn't too bad. I'm sure many coffee addicts wish they weren't addicts (not most, just any group of 1,000 or more people could count as "many"). But it's not something that needs quitting or we wouldn't be happy and healthy into our 80's.
- WorldMaker 3y agoMy grandparents had smaller mugs, sure, but they also each had "six cup a day" habits, where cup is the badly named and confusing Imperial measurement we like in the US. That's still more than my "four and a half cups a day" habit currently, even though I often drink it all in a larger sized mug. Really the biggest difference the mug sizes lead to is number of trips to/from the coffee machine and how much of the coffee I drink colder from it sitting in the same mug for longer with larger surface area to cool it.