Coffee in a Glass? Please Explain.

I haven't written in this for a while, mostly because I could never think of anything worth saying. But I've just been in London for a week with my friend, who I shall call Miss Grenada who mentioned that I should "Create a blog or something so you can complain about things." So that's what I shall do; take this opportunity to rant about things that annoy me.

First up: Coffee in a glass. I haven't really noticed whether this is prevalent in England, considering that I don't drink coffee, but in Melbourne, if you order a Latte (Which is just wanker talk for "coffee with milk") it comes out to you in a teensy tiny little water glass. Let me repeat: Water Glass. WATER GLASS. Now, is it just me, or is this the most bizarre thing imaginable? It's so wrong, on so many levels.

Firstly, coffee is hot. Glass is a "uniform amorphous solid material" (Thank you Wikipedia) which means that when you have hot coffee in a glass and then you try and pick up the glass the glass is hot, and then you burn your hands, and then you can't drink your coffee until the coffee gets cold, and by then the coffee smells like crap and you don't want to drink it anymore. You have therefore wasted the price of a cup of coffee which you could have instead given to a homeless person, unless they want to use the money to buy drugs, in which case you can give the homeless person some food and give the money to your friends, or save it up and buy a really nice skirt. Although you'd kinda have to buy a lot of coffees in glasses to afford a skirt.

Proper coffee cups are made of (and probably in) China, and have handles. So that you don't burn yourself on the coffee cup, which I think makes a lot more sense. And you can get some really pretty coffee cups too, so I don't see why cafes have to be so damn stupid.

The MATH (Man About The House) was recently in Italy, where they drink a lot of coffee, and he says that they use cups with handles. So if the Italians can do it like that and look so much cooler than the rest of us, why do us poor Australians and Brits have to sit there scalding our hands on the same kind of glass cups that you get if you buy some Nutella, eat it, soak it in hot water to remove the label (the jar, not the Nutella itself, you weirdo) and then use the glass to serve coffee in.

And also, if you drink coffee from a glass, you just look like a bit of an idiot.

As I type, the MATH is making a coffee so that I can take a photo of it, and drink it. Although, because I don't like coffee it will sit there and get cold until he yells at me for making him make a coffee that I wasn't even going to drink.

What do you think of the photo? Sure, it looks good, but it's still coffee served in a FRICKING GLASS.

I think I've said "coffee" way too much.