Post #778914 by AceExplorer on Wed, Aug 16, 2017 3:54 AM

On 2017-08-16 02:45, swizzle wrote:
The three companies to the links you provided Ace have done nothing but take a product in their existing range, increased the volume of it, and then made up their own name for it. It's not a new category of glass type so the 'best' name for it they could come up with is a variation of the original.

swizzle, that makes sense, I'm following you. Based on the stated higher liquid volumes, it makes sense to differentiate as long as the volumes follow a logical pattern. This really causes me to wonder -- when is it a highball glass instead of a TOF? If the glass design were to be unwieldy in our hands, then a taller and more cylindrical design is more desirable. And that's a highball.

You made me wonder if I'm actually defending the thing versus just musing out loud. I started looking at this purely out of curiosity, and my goal was the latter, don't know how I'm coming across. But if the concept of a TOF is in fact in use out there, which it just barely seems to be in some remote corners of the interwebs and definitely NOT in the tiki community, my position is that the makers, sellers, users, etc. ought to dang well stick to logically although somewhat rough "standard" sizes for each. Or just call it a Highball if that's what it really is. It would be a shame to see the "coupe-ification" of Old Fashioned glassware, although there is already quite a bit of variation out there. So I kind of hope this remains a background issue. But if not, I think we've got some interesting discussion in this thread.