Will New Cup Sizes End Glassing As We Know It?

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJan 4, 2011

Everyone is talking about the death of the British pint — the government of Knifecrime Island has proposed allowing pubs to serve “schooners,” a serving size that contains two-thirds the amount of the traditional measurement — but no one is asking the obvious question: How will this effect the storied British tradition of glassing? I mean, two-thirds the size? You’re going to cut your hand smashing it before you even get a decent swipe in on the other guy.

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