Adding funky hand painted wine glasses to your collection can help your dinnerware stand out from the everyday, garden-variety pieces that most people serve to their guests. Why settle for being just another average host, when you can go the extra mile to assure that you stand out in a crowd…
When it came to locating plastic wine glasses and plastic martini glasses, then Amazon yielded desirable results, whereas Overstock.com was severely lacking. Overstock does offer a rather impressive line of glassware, just not in the plastic genre. Then, I was lucky enough to discover some more obscure sights, like Hula glassware, etc.
So, what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of owning plastic glassware? First and foremost is this; From a distance I challenge anybody to tell the difference between plastic and glass with any degree of accuracy. Just check out the video of the annoying wine connoisseur below to see what I mean[...]
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Plastic martini glasses? The very thought must send shivers down the collective spines of every martini snob this side of the moon. Aside from the pure practicality of the subject, there are many reasons to consider adding plastic martini glasses to your collection. Just the basic issues of cost and functionality alone will help sway you into a favorable opinion when it comes to plastic glassware, especially cocktail glasses.
Plastic martini glasses
As you can see from the pic above, though it’s plastic, the martini glass still remains elegant in design. The other two glasses retain their elegance of design also, so… Why not add something durable to your glassware collection? Lord knows, if you’re entertaining the tipsy or become tipsy yourself, mucho money can be saved if you drop these beauties on the hard-wood floors…
When it comes right down to it, the difference between plastic martini glasses and traditional glassware designs is quite minimal, when you also take into consideration the increased functionality and durability you gain with the former.
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October 28, 2009
Shot glasses, as you probably already know, come in all shapes and sizes, all makes and models… As glassware goes, shot glasses have a rather salty reputation. Nothing conjures up images of sordid nights spent gulping coffee, trying to sober up, than the lowly shot glass
Nothing says white-trash trinket collector like a personal shot glass collection, but who are THEY to judge? The fact that I collect a shot glass from every personal location I visit should be no concern of those who would judge me without taking the time to get to know me
I still remember my first shot glass… The Army had given us an early leave from our duties on a week-day (I was stationed with a pomp-and-circumstance infantry unit in D.C.) and a friend of mine wanted to get out and make a productive day of it
Shot glass
We made the hour drive to Baltimore and took in the sights at the Baltimore Aquarium… Beautiful place. After the impressive tour ended, I visited the gift shop looking for some sort of memento to commemorate my trip. After perusing several books on whales and such, a rather impressive shot glass adorned with dolphins grabbed my eye. The rest is history, I’ve been collecting them ever since…
October 28, 2009
Glassware exists in all shapes and sizes, that much probably SHOULD go without saying. What particularly interests me with glassware is what it tends to say about the person who purchases it, and me specifically.
Tastes in glassware are as individual and varied as those willing to take the time to think about their decisions, when it comes to choosing the appropriate design for personal expression. Bar glassware is certainly no exception, and truly highlights our personalities[...]
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Beer glasses, as you most likely already know, come in all shapes and sizes… Heck, beer itself comes in all kinds of forms…
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Welcome to your portal to the most functional yet elegant martini glasses available on the net. Martini glasses have become quite the trendy item over the past 10 years. Martini glasses come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from a more traditional design to those that push the boundaries and envelopes of all rationale.
This site is dedicated to the martini glass, and more specifically to the plastic martini glass, but traditional martini glasses certainly deserve their due, and are worthy of a lengthy homage. The glassware is not what makes a martini a martini, but it certainly helps add to the overall mystique that the martini has enjoyed over the years.
You will see a lot of cocktails served in a martini glass, but this DOES NOT mean that they are variations of the traditional martini. In fact,t here is only one accepted variation of the traditional martini and that is when vodka is used instead of gin.
Cocktails such as the Cosmopolitan and the Apple ‘tini have their place in the pop culture of the bar scene, but don’t ever think they belong to the martini family. That family is remarkably small, and just because a drink adds the word martini at the end of it, doesn’t make something like a chocolate martini worthy of any praise…
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