People are hoarding coffee cups ... and Wall Street is going LONG on stainless cups (i.e. investing in them)? What??!!. Are you sure this isn't some secret plot by Starbucks? Ha! ha!!

I'm like Russ. I've got Ti mug from REI. Use it for everything - coffee, boiled water, soup.

By the way ... let me share a story here. Did you ever hear a survival story from an old-timer who was a pro' - but you never quite figured out how it worked? Here's one i heard a long time ago. I met a guy who had been a survival instructor in the military, and after that he had traveled in a lot of rough terrains (just for fun). He told me that he had a special system for how he ate his food , so that he never had to wash the dishes afterwards. It had something to do with the order in which he cooked the food, and the type of meals he ate, but it caused the dishes to be clean when he was finished. He seemed completely serious when he told me this - but I never did figure out how he did it. Or maybe he was just pulling my leg. Who knows???

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