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What does a typical British "Tall, mug-shaped teacup" look like? Genuinely curious, since I can only think about tea party with the Queen with some delicate ch

What does a typical British "Tall, mug-shaped teacup" look like? Genuinely curious, since I can only think about tea party with the Queen with some delicate china when I think of brits drinking tea. And I don't like small/wide teacups. I would love to get a genuine British cup/mug.

n4r9 2y ago
I don't think we have particularly different mugs to what you'd drink coffee or herbal teas out of in the US. This is probably the most common shape you'd expect to see in someone's house: https://i.etsystatic.com/7320577/r/il/c46fa1/1742208467/il_fullxfull.1742208467_pwww.jpg https://i.etsystatic.com/7320577/r/il/c46fa1/1742208467/il_f... A more stylish approach would be like this: https://teaunboxed.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tea-mugs.jpg https://teaunboxed.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tea-... This is what you'd probably get in a standard cafe: https://1975.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Great-British-Mug-of-Tea.jpg https://1975.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Great-British-... This is what I think of when someone says "tall" mug: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/269441990179867455/ https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/269441990179867455/
- nimonian 2y ago
  Thicker walked ceramic mugs are definitely common in the UK, and probably more common now than anything else, but me and my gran both agree that a proper cup of tea needs serving in a thin-walled, fine-china cup, like this: https://fegghayespottery.co.uk/product/plain-270ml-bone-china-tea-coffee-cup-saucer/ https://fegghayespottery.co.uk/product/plain-270ml-bone-chin...
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
  In the States indeed these mostly look like bog standard coffee mugs. The tall one exists as a design but it’s rarer. I can’t speak for the OP but my experience is that media about Great Britain in America often depicts tea mugs as different (I’ve seen many shorter, smaller and flatter variants) than those mugs. Perhaps it is to highlight that the beverage is tea and not something else like coffee to the viewer.
- fifilura 2y ago
  Ok, thanks! That was a wide variety, and what you'd probably call a regular coffee mug here in Sweden. But that is information too, that there is no true tall British tea mug.
  - n4r9 2y ago
    Orwell's original essay says: > one should drink out of a good breakfast cup—that is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind one’s tea is always half cold—before one has well started on it. So I suspect that "tall" is a byword for "not shallow".

n4r9 2y ago

I don't think we have particularly different mugs to what you'd drink coffee or herbal teas out of in the US. This is probably the most common shape you'd expect to see in someone's house: https://i.etsystatic.com/7320577/r/il/c46fa1/1742208467/il_fullxfull.1742208467_pwww.jpg https://i.etsystatic.com/7320577/r/il/c46fa1/1742208467/il_f... A more stylish approach would be like this: https://teaunboxed.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tea-mugs.jpg https://teaunboxed.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tea-... This is what you'd probably get in a standard cafe: https://1975.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Great-British-Mug-of-Tea.jpg https://1975.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Great-British-... This is what I think of when someone says "tall" mug: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/269441990179867455/ https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/269441990179867455/

nimonian 2y ago
Thicker walked ceramic mugs are definitely common in the UK, and probably more common now than anything else, but me and my gran both agree that a proper cup of tea needs serving in a thin-walled, fine-china cup, like this: https://fegghayespottery.co.uk/product/plain-270ml-bone-china-tea-coffee-cup-saucer/ https://fegghayespottery.co.uk/product/plain-270ml-bone-chin...
SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
In the States indeed these mostly look like bog standard coffee mugs. The tall one exists as a design but it’s rarer. I can’t speak for the OP but my experience is that media about Great Britain in America often depicts tea mugs as different (I’ve seen many shorter, smaller and flatter variants) than those mugs. Perhaps it is to highlight that the beverage is tea and not something else like coffee to the viewer.
fifilura 2y ago
Ok, thanks! That was a wide variety, and what you'd probably call a regular coffee mug here in Sweden. But that is information too, that there is no true tall British tea mug.
- n4r9 2y ago
  Orwell's original essay says: > one should drink out of a good breakfast cup—that is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind one’s tea is always half cold—before one has well started on it. So I suspect that "tall" is a byword for "not shallow".