They are just things, and other than the use of the color red, which might add some other feelings/meanings, there is little to distract you from thinking of those objects.
This is an example to denote a cup, a plastic cup.
Many western cultures may know this game, but even if you don't, when you look at this image you don't think of a cup, you think of the action happening here.
Your first thoughts are not about a cup or even about coffee, is about the smell and feeling of relaxing with a coffee break.