[10][11] In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom drinks his tea from a moustache cup he received from his daughter Milly for his twenty-seventh birthday.
In Episode 15 of Season 4 of the television series The Andy Griffith Show, Aunt Bee receives one as a gift from a local farmer, Mr. Frisby.
In Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara thinks of the painted China moustache cups she made for the bazaar.
In Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice, protagonist Doc Sportello buys Wyatt Earp's personal mustache cup, which he suspects is a fake but later proves to be authentic.
In the Martin Beck novel, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, a minor character sporting a full beard and moustasche ruefully comments, "They ought to serve beer in mustache cups."