 After they won the battle the general had second thoughts, and instead ordered a glass imitation to be made.In a 1972 episode of the US television series "M*A*S*H" titled "Yankee Doodle Doctor", a black and white film is made by the doctors in which they are seen at party drinking from shoes.The "shoey" has been a fad in Australia where the drinker either removes their own shoe, or nominates a friend's shoe to be used as the vessel.