Do you have "favourite cup syndrome"?

I absolutely will not drink my hot chocolate from any other mug but the brown one shaped like a flower pot. Seriously. Other than that, I'm often weird about my coffee and if it's not in a Starbucks cup, it doesn't taste the same to me. When I have coffee at home, I always use a small green mug. That and I'm extremely defensive about 'my' mug and don't like other people using it/them.

Absolutely! I have my favorite cups - two of them and tea, coffee..definitely tastes better in those! No I am not kidding you, when at home I just have to have my cup right or else even the most finest of teas start to taste different. Researches show that the cups, the utensils and the material have a lot to do with our taste. The fact that different cups with different materials touch the different part of out tongue, our taste buds things start to taste different! So see, this favorite cup syndrome makes perfect sense!.

Yes I do have.This the cup I use now.Everything tastes great in this as my beloved niece has brought it exclusively from Paris.

I totally believe that! I have a couple of favourite cups. I think I tend to prefer cups with a thinner lip than thicker ones. Yes, I also agree that it 'tastes' better! I just enjoy it more. It doesn't suprise me that it's a psychological thing. My grandmother and I had a bit of a rocky relationship when I was a teenager but things had gotten a lot better between us over the past few years. She gave me two tea cups and saucers with flowers all over them. At first I avoided drinking out of the cups, preferring my 'old faithfuls' but since my Grandma got sick a couple of months ago and sadly passed away last week, I just can't drink out of any other cup than the ones she gave me. Now I'm scared of breaking one of them! I also agree with the notion that people feel panic when they lose their favourite pen. Whenever I lose one at work (I'm a vet nurse and vets are awesome pen stealers) I panic and get sad at the thought that I'll never get to write with that pen again! It is strange. Interesting topic!

Of course. The favorite cup that I had wore out. It was a coffee mug. What made it so great was that it was not heavy, it had these thin walls. When the hot coffee went into the cup it stayed hot as there was not a lot of mass sucking away the heat. I think it has to do with temperature as much as psychology.

I can't say that I do. I don't drink hot tea or coffee. Just cold beverages. But, haven't found a particular glass that I prefer to drink out of as of yet. Who knows someday I just might. Excellent topic Paula. Thank you for sharing.

I don't think I do - all of our cups are the same. There is one cup my husband usually uses for coffee, but that's because it's the one that fits into the coffee maker.

I DO have favourite cup syndrome, yes! lol. In my office, there is one particular mug that I always have my coffee in each day and if the coffee arrives in a different mug, then I'm not happy at all and will go searching for my mug! As far as I'm concerned, yes it DOES taste better in this particular mug and it just seems odd to have it in any other one. I never realized until now that there's a syndrome attached to it though! Aside from my mug, I can't think of any other favourite must-haves right now.

I most definitely have a few favorite coffee mugs...the one I use all the time now I got from the 99-cents store and it has this uplifting saying on it: [i]FOLLOW YOUR DREAM ..." Follow your dream wherever it leads Don't be distracted by less worthy needs Shelter it, nourish it, help it to grow Let your heart hold it down deep where dreams go. Follow your dream, pursue it with haste; Life is too precious, too fleeing to waste... Be faithful, by loyal, then all your life through the dream that you follow will keep coming true..." [/i] Nice way to start the day, huh? I actually used to have a set of three mugs with beautiful wolf drawings on each of them...my dear sweet mother though broke them on me ....she seem to do that whenever she was ticked off at me. She never could stomach my saying something honest to her,so in sort of "vengeance" would take it out on my mugs and break them as she washed them up...sweet huh? I would notice she never broke any mug or anything of hers..strange, no?

Yes! I always have tea in a white cup that is beginning to get quite old now. Coffee, if it's milky coffee, in a mug and espresso in 'my' cup which must be decades old by now. I had no idea this was a syndrome though. What happens when the favorite cup breaks - do we get withdrawal symproms too?

yes i have my favorite cup too and even did not wash it i still using it because i dont want to use other cups

Hi, paula. Yes! I have my own cup at home and no one dares to touch it. I am also really picky with the spoon and fork that I use. Uh oh Lol! I do not feel comfortable eating if my spoon and fork are too light and not of the same design. Have a nice day!

Hi, I have my favorit coffee cup and I have my favorite glass for cold drinks because it measures out exactly 16 ounces and thats what I have my milk in the morning.. All of us in the house have our own coffee cup.I will not use any one elses coffee cup and no one uses mine.

I don't drink coffee, so no favorite cup. I do however have a favorite spoon. I don't know where it came from as it doesn't match any of our other utensils, but I have to have it when I eat soup. My husband always makes sure I have it if he is the one cooking that night. My husband HAD a favorite cup, which he broke last week. It was green with a picture of Goofy on it. It was kind of over sized and he was very sad when he dropped it.

i dont have a favourite cup per se because i dont drink coffee, but as odd as it may be, i have a favourite fork, knife and spoon and of course, i have a favourite pen at work! i dont know why it is, but maybe its because of familiarality.

Now that's funny and strangely true! I have three cups that I'll use without a problem, but if I get coffee in a cup not of those three it throws my day completely off. I think it's the feel of the cup for me more than anything.

I'm big into favourite cups. I look for cups to buy to make my favourites. I'm not sure about tasting better but I do feel better using a likeable cup. And its a horror if they fall and break like has happened with me more than once. I guess its a cup thing.

Hi Paula27661, I do have a favorite cup as well. It is a huge bowl shaped cup that I got for free at a company outing. I use it for drinks, for soups, for almost anything. I hate it when my brother uses my cup too (so I actually hide it in my room till I need to use it).

Oh wow, I wouldn't consider myself to have this syndrome, or anyone in my family...but I think my father has "favorite fork syndrome" --- he will NOT eat unless he has this particular fork. It's ridiculous! lol

Haha I'm going to start paying attention to that now. I don't think I have a favorite cup or mug since I don't drink coffe much or hot chocolate either. I'm pretty sure my mom has one. But I think she has a favorite mug color because we have mugs that have shoe graphics on them and she drinks out of those, but she also drinks out of the plain orange orange cups we have too. My dad, on the other hand, I don't think he cares much as long as he has his coffee.