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There are competing theories for the origin of the name "Toby Jug". [4] Although it has been suggested that the pot is named after Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the most widely accepted theory is that the original was a Yorkshireman, Henry Elwes, 'famous for drinking 2,000 gallons of strong stingo beer from his silver ...
A mug made on a potter's wheel in the Late Neolithic Period (c. 2500 –2000 BCE) in Zhengzhou, China. Though today mugs are associated with hot drinks, milk and soft drinks, many early mugs appear to have been mostly used for beer or other alcoholic drinks, and were often larger than modern mugs.
In the Martin Beck novel, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, a minor character sporting a full beard and moustasche ruefully comments, "They ought to serve beer in mustache cups." In the Japanese manga "Cat and Gentleman's Tearoom," the mustachioed protagonist, Sizuka Taki, favors a Moustache cup.
Drinking from a cup is a significant step on a baby's path to becoming a toddler; it is recommended that children switch from bottles to cups between six months and one year of age. [43] [44] Sippy cups are typically used for this transition. Like other cups for children, these are normally plastic cups.
As the drip coffee, invented in France in the 18th century, gained popularity, the need for tall cups disappeared, so Sèvres porcelain pioneered shorter cups. [2]: 232 Handles first appeared on the Meissen tall cups in the 1710s (some Oriental cups had handles, but these were made from silver). Handles became common by the 1730s.
Credited as "the man who brought Shakespeare to the Indian screen", [49] it was Modi's debut feature film as a director. [49] The story and script were by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of Hamlet. Khoon Ka Khoon was the debut in films of Naseem Banu. [50] Khoon Ka Khoon was a "filmed version of a stage performance of the play". [51]
In recent centuries tankards were typically made of silver or pewter, but can be made of other materials, for example glass, wood, pottery, or boiled leather. [1] A tankard may have a hinged lid, and tankards featuring glass bottoms are also fairly common. Tankards are shaped and used similarly to beer steins.
Typical sippy cup. The sippy cup, training cup (American English) or beaker (British English) is a modern drinking cup designed for toddlers which prevents or reduces spills. . Sippy cups, as opposed to an open cup, have a top which prevents spills, and the child drinks either through a spout or str