Talk:Drink coaster/Archive 1

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Bierfilz
The beermats were originally called "Bierfilz" in german, that is "beer felt", as they were made out of wool felt, probably from small and otherwise unusable pieces from tailoring woolen clothes. They don't swell and then break, but can be washed and reused almost indefinitely. Paper and cardboard used to be quit expensive in pre-1850. --88.66.48.94 (talk) 19:23, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

American Coaster Company
I removed this line "In 1978, American Coaster Company introduced the United States to the beverage coaster." As there is no citation for this information, and beverage coasters were widely used in the United States prior to 1978. A simple online search will turn up hundreds of examples from the 1940's and 1950's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worm12ga (talk • contribs) 14:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Lack of good citations
All three of the current citations are news articles about the Katz group bankruptcy from 2009. All of these news articles seem to state the same information, as if they are using the same company press release or something similar. This page could really use some better sources if anybody can find them.Worm12ga (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

History
You are completely missing the part about how they were invented in Germany and originally used as a cover for your beer glass so that while you were enjoying a beer at the beergarden, you could keep the flies out of your beer. That's why the German word is "Deckel" which means "lid". I suggest you take a look at the German page https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierdeckel — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.218.189 (talk) 21:25, 19 June 2016 (UTC)