Spirits firm causes stir by selling Turkish tea cups as ‘the perfect whisky glass’
Pious Turkish tea junkies are upset after glasses identical to the traditional, Anatolia-bred âslender-waistâ cups were marketed as âthe perfect whisky glassâ by a U.S. spirits company and sold online.
The company claims that the âeccentricâ whisky glasses were discovered âafter years of research in Scotland with the best Scotch distillers in the world.â But keen-eyed Turkish tweeps were not deceived by such promotional âplagiarism,â as pictures of the so-called whisky glass caused a stir on social media.
The company, which praises the glasses for perfectly distributing whiskyâs âalcohol and aroma,â sells them for $25 apiece. However, those looking for a cheaper way to get their hands on such glasses can find them sold for a fraction of the price in almost any Turkish market.
A popular social media meme in Turkey shows a photo of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli surreptitiously sipping from a glass of tea. Meanwhile, Pope Francis, who visited Turkey on an official trip 10 days ago, was also photographed drinking tea with one of the âslender-waistedâ glasses, with pictures showing the pontiff quickly adopting the typical Turkish manner of holding the glass and sipping.
It is true that the glass is used sometimes âout of purposeâ - often to drink alcohol, such as a small shot of rakı. Since the anisette flavored alcohol lost its ânational drinkâ status, after President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan bestowed that honor on the yogurt-based Ayran last year, this alternative use of the glass has perhaps become less fashionable.
Nevertheless, the American firm seems to have discovered new qualities of the sensually shaped glass. Cheers!
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