"a glass of milk"..."a cup of coffee"...

Interesting observation! ;-) It just so happens that coffee usually comes in cups, and milk in glasses. Try this at home: take one small cup and fill it with milk. Stand there, finish the cup. Do you feel it is enough? Or would you want more? Yes, usually I think one small cup is not enough so you want more. Instead of filling your cup a few times, isn't it far simpler to do it once with a tall glass? Now do another experience. In your office, fill one tall glass full of coffee. Bring it to your desk, take a sip, continue working. A few hours later, you reach for your glass and realise the entire glass of coffee is now cold. What a waste! Is it not better to waste a small cup than a tall glass? Further you will find that taking a small cup of coffee satisfies your urge already - you do not need a full glass to achieve the same effect. Just my thoughts. ;-)

It is good for health that we use a glass of milk but it is not so easy to have it when anyone is tired enough. A cup of coffee give a lot of energy to work or to be relaxed easily. So preference is a glass of coffee.

I agree with Lordwarwizard. I think that a milk has to be in glass because it's healthier therefore you might need more of it. Coffee is not as good for your body as milk is and thus comes in smaller portions, a cup. Well, that's what I think!

well i think if you drink one glass of coffee then it would be twice as much as you should take. i think it has to do with the size where you will put it. haha

No it is really strange how we say that we have to have a glass or a cup when it comes to drinking milk or coffee isn't it. I think that the reason could be that normally we put our milk in a glass to drink out of as most of us like to drink it cold and the opposite for the coffee as we like to drink this normally in most cases hot. No I have never heard anyone say it differently.

I often make own coffe since 17 age (I think coffe not enough good for below 17 age, but milk for every age. when I make it, the taste is deference not like when we buy and enjoy at the cafe. Something the taste is not delicious. Yes, I enjoy my coffe everyday before doing activity, maybe like you ... :-)

My husband will say cup of milk. I think the reason they serve coffee in a cup because it is hot and you need the handle so you don't burn your hand. But shoot I guess you really can't go by that either because the cups you get when you go out to eat and you order a cup of coffee to go it is in a foam or paper cup with no handles.

i prefer a glass of milk.............

Hmm interesting question Rexy, I hadn't thought about it till you asked now and it is funny why we refer to both differently. After all they are liquids. Well the English language is crazy so this is just another one added to the list..hehe I think 'cup of milk' sounds ok but not 'glass of coffee'

i prefer milk than coffee coz it's much healthier than being sick with caffeine . after i can drink anything with caffeine my heart will palpitate so fast and i feel like chillin and sweating . rather be with milk for much stronger bones and glowy skin !

Funny, I never really thought about it. I guess it all came about from cultural evolution. Coffee may stay hotter in a cup or mug while milk would be colder in glass. Not to mention glass would break if too hot. Or it could be esthitics. It just looks better. Years ago the champaign glass short and wide. Now the glasses are tall and fluted, all to keep the bubbles going...

it differ from person to person some say i need a cup of coffee or some say a mug of coffee or a glass coffee or it can this way also when someone drink col coffee then it have to be in a glass, and we cannot say that it can come in a cup. where as with milk when it is small quantity it is in cup otherwise generally in a glass or mug.

Both have equal effect but a glass of mil gives u strength but a cup of coffee gives you relaxation from anxiety, depression, tension and all that stuff. Coffee can energize you and can refresh you but on other hand a glass of milk increases strength and makes us teriffic and sound. keep rocking Rexy!!!!!!!God Bless you with a glass of happiness and cup of joys.

It's wonder your posting here Rexy !!! As they are uncountable liquids we need a common measure to make them countable... It doesn't matter why we use 'a cup of coffiee' or 'a glass of milk' ... In general sense, coffiee is much enough to take in that little quantity as it contains caffine the harmonious matter to our body if we take large quantity. And if we take milk in such little quantities, sure there is no use of them.. because, we are having milk to strengthen our body, by large quantites, we can gain much calcium, fats and other benifits from milk. That is why, have 'a cup of coffiee' and ' a glass of milk' .. if you have opposite, sure there is no use than harming our body. I hope, I am right.

I think the answer to your question is related with milk not needing sugar to be added (at least for most people)and that coffee needs sugar (or similar) to be added. If you need sugar you need a spoon and if you need a spoon you need a plate to put the spoon on. And cups come with plates, while glasses don't (even when you can put a glass on a cup's plate). After all this logical explanation, I realize that here in Uruguay you can enter a café and ask for "un café en vaso" that's "a coffee served in a glass". So perhaps you should come to live in Uruguay.

I guess its just that from the beginning, coffee has been served in cups because its easier to sip a hot liquid from a cup's mouth. Water, being cold when we drink it, does not have to be served in cups because it's unnecessary to do so and would in fact, make the drinking slower. A glass is also more comfortable to hold than a cup and considering the many times in day we drink water, glasses should be used instead of cups. That's why the cliches are "a glass of water" and "a cup of coffee".If you can convince people to exchange the vessels of the drinks, I'm sure they'd change to "a cup of water" and "a glass of coffee".

I wouldn't like to drink coffee in anything but mug. Milk can be in anything. Even in a bowl =p

yah.. thats veery nice topic..maybe we are used to use cup when we drink of coffee.. well if you drink it in glass,it will be different you know because sometimes when u drink coffee only a little of it.. but when you drink of milk well we need a glass so it would be enough for us.. and milk look good in glass.. hehhe

i've never thought about it, but it's really very interesting.i like drinking milk and coffee.i use both glass and cup for milk and coffee.But i still say "a glass of milk" or "a cup of coffee",i also say "a cup of tea" and never say "a glass of tea".:P

no it is not important to do this