Who remembers these???
If you were a Boy Scout back in the day, you probably lost as many of these as I did… Sigh…
They are collapsible cups, and we always had one or two in our backpacks. Hint- DO NOT try to drink coffee from one unless you have gloves on!!!
Only made that mistake ONCE!
Me! I still have one somewhere in my backpack.
I remember them well, keep a pair of cheap Tex-Sport cups on top of the refrigerator for my weekend activity med pill case water container. Yeah, you feel the heat really quickly, that thin aluminum will do that.
Also have one of those folding flat cups (forms a shallow cone is best description) somewhere around here. Fits a shirt pocket very handily.
Hah – Safesport, not Tex-Sport.
Yep, had one that came with a mess kit with a mesh washcloth sack we made in Girl Scouts to hang from a tree to dry.
Yes, another thing I remember, and I might actually have somewhere around the house if I just look through enough stuff. The collapsible cup seems to have been replaced by the plastic water bottle.
I remember them! Of course, by the time I was in scouts, they were made of bright red plastic. Lost several of them. I will be enrolling my son in the Cub Scouts this fall.
I had one as well.
Though, back when I was a Boy Scout, the leadership wasn’t queer.
+1 LL
But my Scoutmaster taught us to get a small “Y” shaped branch and use a string to tie the cup in the “V”. That way we could drink coffee or hot soup. I had to wet the edge so I wouldn’t burn my lip, though.
Had a couple, back in the day. Lost one growing up, and the other on Adak. Dang it.
Funny, the cousins and I were just talking about these. Our grandpa had lots of them when he worked for Caterpillar tractor. They gave them out as advertising freebees. We used them for tea parties and as a throwing puck…
I was given one as a birthday present in about 1957. I used it on one hike and tossed it into a pile of house sized granite boulders. After that I carried a tan bakelite coffee mug. It’s still around here somewhere. I also had one of those $@&*(!@@ Sierra cups for a while. Slow learner. The only metal cup I actually used was a war surplus canteen cup. That was my cooking pot until I was no longer a Boy Scout, then I gave it to my son when he joined Scouts. That canteen cup, it’s canteen and canteen cover are still around here too.
Never had one. Always used a mil sup canteen cover, canteen cup and canteen. That cup need care when drinking anything hot.
Also seen in “Stagecoach”.
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I had a couple, but the Lord only knows what became of them
Yes, but mine were plastic. I am a child of the modern age. Lol.