Egg cup
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An egg cup, sometimes called egg server, is a container used for serving boiled eggs within their shell. Egg cups have an upwardly concave portion to hold the egg and often include a base to raise the egg retaining portion and give stability, informally known as "footies". Other types include: no pedestal, just a cup known as "buckets" and egg-sized on one side and bigger on the other end known as "doubles".
They can be made of china, pottery, wood, plastic, glass and various metals.
Egg cups are popular with collectors. There are newsletters for egg cup collectors, there are also egg cup conventions for collectors in England. Collecting egg cups is called Pocillovy; it comes from the Latin "pocillum" for small cup and "ovi" for eggs.
The first cocktail was made in an egg cup. A New Orleans bartender in the early 1800s invented a mixed drink of absinthe, brandy and bitters which he served in an egg cup.
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