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Original poster

to wonder what's wrong with the last half cm of coffee??

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 14:13

Every time I make a coffee for my mum she leaves a small amount in the bottom. I noticed after the first few times I put it in the dishwasher without noticing! It literally is every time.
With real coffee the last little bit can be full of grounds/very thick but this is instant! I realised my aunt (her sister) does it too the other day - is it just them or do they know something I don't?

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Fliight · 09/04/2010 14:34

Also if there is anything that kind of goes back into the cup or glass from your mouth, it will be at the bottom.

Children's drinks especially bad for this. Ds2's water bottle often ends up sort of cloudy. urgh

JodieO · 09/04/2010 14:34

I do this with tea/coffee too.

Fliight · 09/04/2010 14:35

Lol, tiredmum, sorry!

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 14:35

Why Fliight?? Whatever it is might float - DS's bread certainly does when he puts it in his milk

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 14:35

urgh jb - I've been for coffee with you and never noticed you spitting in your cup

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Fliight · 09/04/2010 14:36

Hmm. Not crumbs though stealth.

I heard somewhere that the last few cm of a bottle of water etc is usually saliva. But am loath to support the rumour as it makes me feel sick to type it.

Undercovamutha · 09/04/2010 14:44

I always leave about a mouthful at the bottom of my cup. Not sure why though, just have to do it!

WebDude · 09/04/2010 14:51

Ah, but if you use glass cups... you won't get to the kitchen before spotting it.

pagwatch · 09/04/2010 14:53

Its cold, it starts to look sludgy and peers at you in a sad reproachful way. It is too cruel to drink it by then.

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 14:59

what kind of coffee do you drink pag?? obviously not the same as me

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pagwatch · 09/04/2010 15:28

Probably the same Stealth. But I talk a lot and it gets cold. And then I have the piping hot jug sitting there smiling at me and I just want to move on.
I am a coffee floosie. I am the Tiger Woods of caffine

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 15:31

Well I am enjoying a hot(ish)cup of kenco decaffeinated. I admit it's best at a certain temperature, but you take the rough with the smooth, the tepid with the hot

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pagwatch · 09/04/2010 15:33

coffee karma

stealthsquiggle · 09/04/2010 15:34

LOL at "the tiger woods of caffeine"

Stealth - my DH does that and it drives me nuts as well. I tried the theory that it was because he was brought up in a tea-drinking family and therefore leaves it to avoid stray tealeaves, but he insists he never drank tea .

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 15:42

interesting point - my mum and aunt too have never drank tea!
Maybe in the great tea leaves era it was considered polite so people do it as standard with any hot drinks

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juneybean · 09/04/2010 16:02

Haha but don't they say when you drink out of a bottle the last swig is going to be mostly saliva, I wondered if it might be same with a cup [wonders]

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2010 16:07

well I've never heard that

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WebDude · 09/04/2010 20:16

I've never heard it, nor do I believe it... perhaps it's my method of extracting liquids, using suction rather than gravity so end up sucking air and nothing goes back into my drinks containers...

EVye · 09/04/2010 20:19

I do it with tea. Cannot drink to the bottom of the cup and am always surprised when my friends do

smokinaces · 09/04/2010 20:46

I always leave a cm or two of tea/coffee at the bottom of the cup. In fact, for the first time ever at work a fortnight ago I finished the whole cup and my colleague commented on it!

No idea why I do it though.

TottWriter · 09/04/2010 21:19

I usually drink the whole lot, though with DS around I do end up with a lot of half-empty cups where I've been distractedand it's gone cold.

If I'm having one of my loose leaf teas I don't drink the dregs though. And I usually find myself swilling the cup before that last mouthful and watching the tea-sediment mix back in - that last sip is nice and strong and not too milky because of this. I do the same with hot chocolate to stop myself missing out on that cocoa-ey goodness, and that's where the habit came from.

It's just tea. Or coffee, I suppose, but i'm not much of a coffee drinker. Mind you, if I've been biscuit dunking that's another story entirely. No way do I drink that.

My brother does though. He used to leave the biscuit half in until it broke off, and then drink his tea with the assistance of a spoon .

gaelicsheep · 09/04/2010 21:21

I do this all the time. Don't really know why except that it is usually cold (and generally been reheated at least once already).

lovechoc · 09/04/2010 21:33

LOL - I do this every single time with tea, coffee, hot choc etc. I have no idea why I do it, but I just do and DH gets so annoyed with me for it. He says it's wasteful and unneccessary but I just can't help it!

YABU - some of us have no control over it.

lovechoc · 09/04/2010 21:35

now I'm glad that there's a thread on here about this, will let DH know that I'm not the only one out there with this irrational habit. I feel so much better now.

ElleBing · 09/04/2010 21:36

YANBU!

My mum leaves more like two inches and it fucking fucks me off (scuse bad language, friday night is wine night, wine = swears I'm afraid)

She leaves two inches so I started making her cups of tea with two inches missing and she got all mardy bum about it! Aw sorry mum, sorry that I've denied you those two inches of tea that I'll end up throwing down the sink!

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