Friday, March 18, 2011

Love Rant: Coffee Cups With Saucers




I have no reasonable explanation as to why this makes me so so happy...but it does. I'm slightly embarrassed to say that when my coffee comes on a saucer at a restaurant, I get a little giddy.
I don't know if it's the "tidiness" of the whole thing.
Or that if it's just elegant and classy.
(Really, what it probably is, is that, if a coffee cup on a saucer my brain is instantly like, "OMG! ROOM FOR A COOKIE!!")

Sometimes, I forget to be civilized.
Not that I'm a Barbarian, but I am always on the run and coffee, as much as I love it, is also my morning fuel. It's either thrown into a mug and guzzled in the morning a la Popeye downing a can of spinach or I run through a drive-though and get it in a disposable cup that's disposable because I didn't have time before I left the house to MAKE and SIT DOWN with an ACTUAL cup.
When presented with a coffee cup on a saucer, I'm reminded to slow down. I think, "Wow. This must be a damn good cup of coffee. I mean...its got its own chair and everything. I should sit in my own chair and enjoy it."
Coffee cups on saucers make me feel civilized. It's like permission to chill out for a sec, sit at a cafe with a book (and a cookie) and watch the world go by (with a cookie). I mean, think about it...if you're carrying a coffee cup on a saucer you have to walk slowly AND when you drink you can't just slam it back down on the table. You have to dantily return it to it's little place in the middle of the plate.
Also, as we've covered...saucer=built in cookie tray.

...this is as close as I am ever going to get (and have ever gotten) to having a tea party.
No thank you tea, just strong black coffee.
No thank you crumpets, just cookies.
No thank you proper posture and polite conversation, just a comfortable chair and an engaging discussion or a good book.
But yet yes yes please to my coffee on a saucer.

AND DON'T FORGET THE COOKIE.


...I suppose eating a cookie like cookie monster total defeats my whole argument that coffee cups on saucers make me slow down. Honestly though, it only slows me down when it comes to drinking and enjoying my coffee. Personally, I don't know any other way to eat cookies.





Also, when I image-searched "coffee saucers cookies" to find the above image I also found this...

I can't decide if it's a miracle or the worst thing ever because it pretty much make a saucer mostly moot.

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