[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Marion Thompson]

Your hand around the bowl will warm the contents, especially white wine 
which is served and generally drunk chilled to a greater or lesser 
extent depending.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 9/6/2016 11:26 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> I realized, reading this, that I never hold a wine glass by the stem, but
> always by the bowl. And I, too, was taught that you shouldn't look at the
> liquid while you're carrying it; otherwise it's more likely to slosh and
> spill.
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...and now having looked at the experiment I have to ask.... does coffee
>> have legs if it's consumed from a wine glass?
>> Lynn
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>> From: "Allan Carr" <allanc25 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 1:29 AM
>> To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses
>>
>> Thinking about it a little late, I should have titled this Coffee Mugs vs
>>> Wine Glasses.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Apropos of nothing much, I used to walk from office to office, or around a
>>>> factory floor, with a coffee cup perpetually in my hand. From time to
>>>> time,
>>>> i'd spill some of the coffee. Now it comes out that if I'd kept my coffee
>>>> in a wine glass, my tendency to spill would have been far less. It's
>>>> proved
>>>> by actual experiment by a South Korean physics student http://
>>>> tinyurl.com/jh9yr2w
>>>>
>>>> I always thought the shape of the wine glass had more to do with sniffing
>>>> the wine, but maybe stability is more important to people somewhat under
>>>> the influence.
>>>>
>>>> However, it looks to me that both the cup and the glass are half full in
>>>> the experiment. My coffee cup is usually full (it generally gets cold
>>>> before I drink much of it) and my wine glass (at least with red wine) is
>>>> less than half full. I think that's why I spilled far more coffee in my
>>>> lifetime than wine, although if you add in all the wine glasses I knocked
>>>> over on the table, maybe it comes out about even.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, how many of you (like me) would have picked the wine glass as
>>>> having less stable liquid, because of the way it sloshes around in the
>>>> round container?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Allan Carr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Allan Carr
>>>
>>
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