When I first got to my unit overseas, I thought I'd do everyone a favor and clean their nasty looking coffee cups. I was excoriated the next day when every one came in and wanted coffee.
But TBF, I wasn't a coffee aficionado back then...I drank hot tea.
When I was at the shop, if I kept my cup clean everybody thought they could use it. Let the patina build up until it looked like a spit cup everyone left it alone. Daryl
A young E-3 could not get the deck office coffee pot clean. Got rid of it and went to supply to get a new one - they did not have one. He was painting the waterline when we got to port, was cleaning shitters until then.
That's what my wife considers "washable".... and that's why I hide it from her. The "patina" is right at the correct level where the water comes when I mix my cold-brew coffee syrup, and heat it in the microwave. I tell her it's like taking a map and erasing the roads, but she doesn't listen.
My FIL would have appreciated that cup. I on the other hand would boil it Clorox before taking a Scoth-brite to it. The problem with washing cups is soap residue. If your final rinse is a vinegar solution it will cut the soap residue and sterilize the cup.
Got a canteen cup at CIF, Ft. Sill, OK. Paid for it on a statement of charges. 30 years, five deployments and multiple PCS’ later, still have it. Hasn’t been washed since 1996. Best coffee ever.
Just add hot water and stir
ReplyDeleteHope did you get a picture of my coffee cup? all of my cameras are pointed outward. ;-))
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I had a cup like that once and loved it. Then one day the new GF cleaned it. I haven't used it since.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first got to my unit overseas, I thought I'd do everyone a favor and clean their nasty looking coffee cups. I was excoriated the next day when every one came in and wanted coffee.
DeleteBut TBF, I wasn't a coffee aficionado back then...I drank hot tea.
When in the Navy, the tradition was once aboard the ship or duty station, one acquired a coffee cup w/logo. Never to clean it while there!
DeleteThrow it away.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was at the shop, if I kept my cup clean everybody thought they could use it. Let the patina build up until it looked like a spit cup everyone left it alone.
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Had a Master Chief (when that meant something) that flipped his shit because someone washed his coffee mug, never happened again.
ReplyDeleteA young E-3 could not get the deck office coffee pot clean. Got rid of it and went to supply to get a new one - they did not have one. He was painting the waterline when we got to port, was cleaning shitters until then.
DeleteYour officers would have shit if they'd ever tasted my operations NCO's coffee. He prided himself on being able to stand a spoon up in it.
DeleteThat's what my wife considers "washable".... and that's why I hide it from her. The "patina" is right at the correct level where the water comes when I mix my cold-brew coffee syrup, and heat it in the microwave. I tell her it's like taking a map and erasing the roads, but she doesn't listen.
ReplyDeleteI had cup like, seasoned it for 20 years while working in the shipyard back home. My wife put the cup in the dishwasher- I was apoplectic.
ReplyDeleteI give mine a scrubbing once a year.
ReplyDeleteBet she has a great immune system...
ReplyDeleteRoomed with a guy in college who’d been in the navy. Nastiest coffee mug I’d ever seen. Prefer mine squeaky clean.
ReplyDeleteA little history with every sip.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh
My FIL would have appreciated that cup. I on the other hand would boil it Clorox before taking a Scoth-brite to it. The problem with washing cups is soap residue. If your final rinse is a vinegar solution it will cut the soap residue and sterilize the cup.
ReplyDeleteAinj't like sourdough, in that you gotta save some starter?
ReplyDeleteHad one like that when I was working. Told my wimpy coworkers that I got coffee and a vaccination every day.
ReplyDeleteAh, memories of the Tweet Shop at Whidbey.
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That is the picture of my co-worker's office coffee mug from fifty years ago.
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Got a canteen cup at CIF, Ft. Sill, OK. Paid for it on a statement of charges. 30 years, five deployments and multiple PCS’ later, still have it. Hasn’t been washed since 1996. Best coffee ever.
ReplyDeletemy Gunny Sergeant had a cup like that. Black coffee and never washed.
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