OT: schmooziest fancy car coffee cup?

[Silvan]

I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about these things.

I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's anything in particular I should be looking for.

I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from

or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy? Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What department will I find the thing in?

[Fly-by-Night CC]

I won't address the bit about your subconscious reaction to him puttin' his cuppaJoe on _your_ truck...

Regarding a replacement mug, it all deepens...

If'n you want an artsy, hand-made ceramic then head to a pottery-oriented gift shop(pe). If'n you might want some local color and perhaps a catchy gen-X logo head to the corner coffee (and book) cottage. If'n your friend drives an Escalade-Range Rover-Hummer-Land Cruiser then by all means head to that most pedestrian pervayor of peruvian nectar (of course, organically grown, picked by Juan Valdez hisself, packed off the Andes by Bob the burro and delivered directly to Seattle corporate offices by pierced, hemp wearing, dreadlocked boys and girls via rowboat up the Pacific coast)... Starbucks. Should your friend be of the Pabst swilling, hardhat wearing, chaw spittin', dunlap's disease sportin' variety then they's no finer place to pick up a quality container (brushed alyoumineum) for the morning coffacuppy than the Flying J Truck Stop out by the innerstate (Whilst you're there, you might consider one of them spiffy brushed thermos's too - he deserves it, don't ya think?)

[Morris Dovey]

There are two kinds I like - one is an insulated stainless steel mug and the other is a plastic sailing mug that's about twice as large at the bottom as at the top with a non-skid pad.

The stainless steel mugs are easier to find and one of the big manufacturers is Nissan.

Try

for info.

[Allen Epps]

The downside to the Alum ones is not being able to microwave them if it needs a reheat. Allen

[Knothead]

After years of practice, trial and error and general can't do anything without a cuppa I have settled on the Nissan stainless. I am pretty sure that stainless means less about the steel and more about the front of you shirt when your driving to work...

Knothead

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[J T]

Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 1:46am [e-mail] (Silvan) claims: I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one.

About any of the convenience store gas stations should have 2-3 types, at least.

JOAT Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- =A0Dale Carnegie

[J T]

Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 6:14am (EST-1) [e-mail] (Knothead) claims: more about the front of you shirt when your driving to work...

No prob, drink thru a straw. You don't burn your lips with hot coffee, and it isn't gonna slop all over you.

JOAT Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- =A0Dale Carnegie

[Larry Bud]

flummy?

I just ordered a mug from Amazon. It was a thermal variety, but it is ceramic on the inside. I can't stand the taste of tea in a plastic cup.

search for "highwave jomondo". They sell smaller varieties as well ;-)

[jo4hn]

For the best in coffee mugs see:

keeps my kid in lattes...) Mr. SEG jo4hn

[ranck]

Just around the corner from your house there is a Books-A-Million and inside is a Joe Muggs coffee franchise. They have some nice ones.

Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va.

[Robatoy]

[Deliberate and surgical snippification] *gasp*...*trying to steady myself* *Looking at the ceiling in a waft of indignation* TEA?? IN PLASTIC??? *tuning down the drama button*

Okay, where were we...oh.. I have an Emile Henry 'Tradition' mug. Ceramic, made in France (If there EVER was a reason to transcend dislike for the French, this might be it) They are about 20 bucks in Kanuckistan. Trust me on this just this once.. you have never had tea until you drop a couple of Earl Gray Green bags into an Emile Henry mug (of course use bottled water, that goes without saying.....!!).

Rob.

PS. Coffee may be okay in these as well. I stopped drinking coffee after I found myself chewing through the straps too early in the morning......

[mac davis]

If you're looking for a travel mug/adult toddler cup, try a truck stop if you have one nearby.. good assortment and usually built to last..

OPPS.. PC (politically correct, not porter cable) correction... nearby "auto travel plaza"..

mac

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[J. Clarke]

Nissan.

If he's a beer and soda drinker, Nissan Thermos has one exceptionally nice one (JCA350) that can function as a spill-resistant coffee mug but also is shaped so that a standard soda or beer can drops right into it--it keeps the can cold for hours. Or if he's on the go and hits Starbucks regularly, they have another one, (JFC-600) designed so that you can drop the paper cup right in. Both are vacuum-insulated stainless.

shows most of the product line.

[Knothead]

JOAT Says: No prob, drink thru a straw. You don't burn your lips with hot coffee, and it isn't gonna slop all over you.

I just started wearing a bib

[Dave Hinz]

Can't go too wrong with stuff from thinkgeek.com, I'm sure there's a ton of coffee-specific stuff there.

Dave

[mark]

Don't know if you can find one locally, but this mug is the best shop mug ever. Keeps coffee hot for hours, can be completely sealed closed, and is indestructible.

[Robatoy]

Those insulated mugs.. they keep hot things hot and cold things cold...how does it KNOW?

[Dave Hinz]

It's all ball bearings these days.

[J. Clarke]

pretty but I think I'd stick with Nissan--they've been making the things for decades.