Purchase Picardie Glasses

     Most lame new thing ever?  Perhaps,  but I'm kind of excited.  When I was little we traveled a bit.  My Dad's job took us to a couple of cool places and one of them was a stay in North Carolina.  While living in a hotel for weeks we did most of our dining out.  I think the little restaurant adjacent to the place had these glasses.  I seriously have loved this style glass for as long as I can remember.   I googled them because I remembered their name from the nine million catalogs I have seen them in...all the biggies: Crate & Barrell, Williams - Sonoma, etc...
     "The classic  Picardie glass is "the ultimate drinking vessel created by man." First produced in France around 1927, the design and specification has remained virtually unchanged since Saint-Gobain introduced their patented glass tempering process to the Duralex company in 1939.
Since then this design classic has become celebrated as the quintessential French Bistro glass."
     So as a grown-up I have wrapped my hand around many of these.  Beer tastes better, water seems crisper and orange juice...mmmm mmmmm.   I pick them up in whatever store I find them in, rave over how they are the perfect glass and then put them down and walk away.  WHY?  I don't really know but today while at Ikea I bit the bullet and purchased a dozen of them at a whopping 59¢ per glass.  Will juice, soda, chocolate milk and iced tea taste better spilling into my mouth from a picardie tumbler...damn straight it will.  Hey, maybe my thing for tomorrow will be to see how many different beverages I can drink out of my new tumblers!