Jennifer Interesting question. My dad opined that putting the coffee in a saucer cooled it down faster to a proper drinking temperature. Or maybe the adult had shared coffee with the child by pouring a bit from their cup into the saucer that they already held. But I wonder, too, if it was simply because their own mother / father had done it. Sort of like the tradition of cutting off the ends of the ham before putting it into the roasting pan.... a tradition that someone finally questioned..... and found that it was because the hams hadn't fit Grandma's roaster, way back when, and had to be cut down to fit...... so they all just did it because Grandma did it. Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: <JennH13@aol.com> To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:53 AM Subject: [TNCAMPBE] Drinking Coffee from a Saucer > Nancy, > > I had forgotten that my Granny (Esther Mae Sharp Johnson, 1st wife of > James > Earl Harness Sr. and 2nd wife of Hugh Johnson) used to drink her coffee > from a > saucer, too! I wonder why they did that??? The things you forget because > they are so normal to you as a young child seem surprising to you as an > adult > when you think about them, I guess. > > Jennifer Harness Ayers > >

You know my grandfather did the same thing.. He would always poor his coffee in the saucer and drink it from there... Him and his Sanka!.... Frances Alaska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Keith" <keithnancy@t-one.net> To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE] Drinking Coffee from a Saucer > Jennifer > > Interesting question. My dad opined that putting the coffee in a saucer > cooled it down faster to a proper drinking temperature. Or maybe the > adult > had shared coffee with the child by pouring a bit from their cup into the > saucer that they already held. But I wonder, too, if it was simply > because > their own mother / father had done it. > > Sort of like the tradition of cutting off the ends of the ham before > putting > it into the roasting pan.... a tradition that someone finally > questioned..... and found that it was because the hams hadn't fit > Grandma's > roaster, way back when, and had to be cut down to fit...... so they all > just > did it because Grandma did it. > > Nancy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JennH13@aol.com> > To: <tncampbe@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:53 AM > Subject: [TNCAMPBE] Drinking Coffee from a Saucer > > >> Nancy, >> >> I had forgotten that my Granny (Esther Mae Sharp Johnson, 1st wife of >> James >> Earl Harness Sr. and 2nd wife of Hugh Johnson) used to drink her coffee >> from a >> saucer, too! I wonder why they did that??? The things you forget >> because >> they are so normal to you as a young child seem surprising to you as an >> adult >> when you think about them, I guess. >> >> Jennifer Harness Ayers >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCAMPBE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >