Old school Tom and Jerry serving sets always came with the big punch bowl and eleven glasses.  Eleven is wierd...it's odd and prime.  Anyone know why they came with eleven glasses instead of ten or a dozen?

My theory is it's a lot like you get thirteen donuts from a real bakery...eleven is a drunkard's dozen.  I just can't confirm it anywhere.

You're sure it didn't come in a set of 12, and someone selling it to you hadn't broken one and told you it was only 11? Maybe the considered it a 12 peice set, with the punch bowl being one of the peices.

My wife is always obsessed with getting place settings for 12 or usually 18 for whenever we have people over(which is never anywhere near 18), but we break so much stuff, that we just have 5 of one thing, 8 of another, and 3 of something else. It's a mess.

The guys I was discussing it with said they'd only ever seen them in sets of 11 glasses...and one says he was told that's all they ever came with.  I wouldn't know personally...by the time I remember ours, we only had 5 glasses lol.

This is a shot in the dark, but perhaps only 11 fit around the punch bowl?

What's the diameter of the punch bowl and of the glasses?

At the risk of sounding like a homo, every set of glasses I've ever seen was either 4, 8, or 12.  A set of 11 is 12 with 1 broken I would think.

Tom and Jerry are cool and politically-incorrect.

Have you ever seen a Tom and Jerry serving set with 12 glasses?

dude, you have the weirdest stuff