The Starbucks Consumer Products Group Passport. Years ago, there was a Starbucks CPG passport! A reader (a Starbucks partner) sent me this photo of her old CPG passport! I like this idea. And now, the number of CPG items in the grocery store is huge!
(CNN)2016 is still not done. Before we lost George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds this week, we lost someone who's probably had just as big an impact on our lives, though you've never heard of him: Robert Leo Hulseman. He's the man who invented the red Solo cup, staple at every party ever. He died last week at age 84. The Solo Cup Company was the family business -- Hulseman's dad started it in 1936 -- and Hulseman started working in the company factory when he was 18, according to his obit on Legacy.com.
It was the original basis for the demitasse cup. The second is the mini cup and saucer, which is half the size of a demitasse cup and saucer. It's sometimes also known as a doll's cup because it's so tiny. The third is the chocolate cup and saucer, a type of drinkware dating back to the 1770s.t is a common misconception that demitasse cups hold (or should hold) one-half of a measuring cup (four ounces). The name refers to one-half coffee cup.