Tuesday 10 June 2014

Saucers


Intergalactic hollandaise
Just one of those very simple ones I'd never noticed: saucers were originally meant to contain sauce. It's so obvious once you see it, but I had never seen it before.

They've been used to support cups only since the early eighteenth century.

This also means that flying saucers are for huge, alien foodstuffs to be dipped into.

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  2. And for a saucer to be a 'proper' saucer it should hold the entire contents of the cup.

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