Yes, if you’re at the sort of party where there is a keg of beer, or at a large family picnic especially. They’re the standard disposable cup for situations where the hosts wouldn’t have enough cups for everyone and don’t want to deal with potential loss and breakage.
Also the Solo brand is popular for its structural integrity and perceived measurement lines. Now, the company claims that the distinct cup width changes aren’t for helping measure liquids for various alcoholic drinks so one can measure a shot versus a glass of wine or a glass of beer. However, I think that’s a bit of a legal cover.
And even if it truly isn’t for measuring a perfect shot for making a cocktail, it STILL IS a perfect equal measure if you want to hand out shots to a group of people. May not be a full shot but no one gets less or more than others.
Yeah, they aren’t good because they’re some specific unit of measure. They’re good because they’re consistent and fit the need. That’s how measures are crested in the first place. They aren’t magical things that exist in nature that we found. We just needed to measure something, so we used something convenient on hand that fit the task.
I only use
Ah, the dentist cup
It’ll always be the Taco Bell water cup to me.
The peak of 90s design. Love me some jazz
I had the exact same shirt!!
Everyone did
I have a shirt and shorts with it lol they’re always a hit at the bar
I have a car near me painted like this. Can’t say I’m not jelly.
Coincidence, someone asked for a cutout decal for a gastank.
and provided the template
I really wish I could see the rest of the bike. Looks very cool.
Scrape that wax
Whiskey will destroy this cup in tens of minutes. I’ve done science on it.
Drink faster then
or skip the cup and chug the bottle instead.
Why would whiskey be in a cup for tens of minutes?
Tis designa cuppa ✨
It’s not like there aren’t other disposable cups used, but yeah, very common
They’re the first hit for “plastic cup”. They’re cheaper than the clear version. You can get store brand, or Solo brand if you want to go posh.
Solo brand if you want to go posh.
You have a VERY different definition of “posh” than any I’m used to…
And now I’m imagining Victoria Beckham drinking $10000/bottle champagne out of name brand disposable cups 😁
Reminds me of when my brother and I were 18-20 and asked our upstairs neighbors, Wanda and Lou from Austin, to help with buying us a case of beer for New Years Eve. They asked what kind we wanted and we said Budweiser. Wanda said “oh, splurgin!”. I guess standard was Natural Light or Busch or something and she saw Budweiser as somewhat elite.
Did you consider she might have been being sarcastic?
No, because the way she said it made it clear that was not the case. Also, they did typically drink cheaper beer like Schlitz.
It’s not like you suggested something really classy, like Coors Banquet.
Ever read the text on the Budweiser label?
“This is the famous Budweiser beer. We know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age. Our exclusive Beechwood Aging produces a taste, a smoothness and drinkability you will find in no other beer at any price.”
(emphasis mine)
I drank cliquot veuve (? I think that’s how you spell it) out of a red solo cup one new years.
Veuve Clicquot. Nearly all the right letters, just the wrong order.
… that’s…the same definition. What do you think that’s referring to?
Red cups are like yellow school buses. Both are real.
And largely used by children.
how else are they supposed to sneak booze?
They use cups? Do they put a nipple on it too?
only if they’re Irish.
They’re called Solo Cups.
Solo is the brand that makes them. They make other colors too but red is by far most common
100%
Still call them “Solo cups,” though.
Yeah, for me we have always got Costco Kirkland brand red cups which seem to be made by Chinet. 240 cups and used to be under $10 bucks was by far the best deal and the cups were just as good.
I got a pink one from some family friend for water while I was fixing her mini split. The red is better structurally for some reason cause the pink brook around the rolled top before I even got home.
Those cups became very popular in the 1970s, particularly amongst younger people living at home or going to college. If you and your buddies from college were having a big party, you could buy a sleeve of cups and a beer keg a have a good time. I remember going to parties like that. The law said people were not allowed to sell alcohol without a license, so to cover the booze costs, the hosts would sell cups at the door that people could drink from.
I sincerely think that Red Solo Cups beat out other disposable cups are because of the lines. They are actually measurements that you can use to measure mixed drinks if you’re not drinking beer or wine.
so to cover the booze costs, the hosts would sell cups at the door
I … what?!
Selling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!
Ahahah… yep, helped plan and host a few such uh, ‘events’, where we employed this extremely legal tactic.
That and ID checking. Still can’t legally serve a minor, even if the booze is free.
These aren’t parties in the sense of house party thrown by friends. These are essentially large "open’ events hosted by a group.
I’m sorry that you haven’t known people with large houses and lots of friends of friends of friends.
You absolutely can throw a house party where you know you’re gonna need to buy a couple hundred cups.
And ideally, you’ll be playing Daft Punk Is Playing At My House at your house.
That doesn’t look like any Solo cup I’ve ever seen. The lines and profile are completely different.
This is what I’m used to.
I don’t think those lines could be used to measure anything useful
They can.
Easiest one is… add as much ice as you wsnt, thrn fill up to the first line with say, Jack, then up to the second line with say, Coke.
I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.
Yes, but not just parties. Parties using red cups are historically going to be drinking parties for younger people like “keggers.” Red cups are fairly ubiquitous for lots of events like picnics, cookouts, birthday events and the like.
I can’t say they’re used at all parties, but they’re pretty common.
Why would this be hard to believe
Edit: oops my privilege is showing, mb yall
“Do Americans rally have McDonald’s everywhere or is that a Hollywood thing?”
“Is Starbucks really that popular or is that a Hollywood thing?”
Do Americans really eat hamburgers or is that a Holllywood thing?"
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
You right
My bad. It’s bc privilege. I work on it.
Idk what’s privileged about being aware the US has a ton of fast food and uses disposable cups, there is nothing unbelievable about a highly westernized ultra rich nation doing any of these things
Or, I mean, simply having disposable cups. Disposable cups are quite common in developing nations as well - just look on the side of any highway. The only “American” thing about it is the ubiquity of the red color, which is simply a cultural phenomenon
It’s a challenge to find a case where it really is a Hollywood thing.
Do Americans really eat lunch and mingle outside in high school or is that a Hollywood thing?
When the weather is nice we sure did.
Why does “privelege” have to do with it?
It’s just simple ignorance on your part - you didn’t realize what’s commonplace to you isn’t commonplace to someone outside the US, nothing more.
its a common thing for parties, not just for beer, but for birthday parties, barbeques, holding even solid food.
Family events with a sharpie so everyone knows which drink is theirs
I’ve seen this asked a few times over the years, here or back on Reddit maybe.
Yes. Yes we do. But it’s mostly like high school or college parties. Kids who don’t have a lot of money and are going to make a mess. Sometimes even adults if it’s like a large outdoor barbecue kind of thing. Or around water or a pool where you don’t want glass.
You usually wouldn’t do this for a more formal or “classy” type of occasion. Though it does happen. Some might see it as tacky in that context.
I’ve seen them at “classy” parties, such as for Christmas or new years, when there’s a lot of people expected, because you can write your name on them with a sharpie and prevent a million abandoned drinks from accumulating everywhere.
But usually I’d agree, I associate them with college dorm parties and house parties for teens-20-somethings, who don’t want to deal with the mess and/or may not own a sufficient number of glasses for all the guests.
These 7oz/200ml cups are the worst, the very worst. Holds two mouthfuls of drink and crack in half if you look at them funny, just terrible
How terrible!
You’re supposed to have a plastic handle for it.
Naw. Not exclusively. They come in lots of colors now.
Yeah. There are a bunch of different brands that make them, and they come in a lot more colors than red, but that type of disposable plastic cup has been pretty ubiquitous since the 1990s. There are also clear plastic disposable cups that are just as common, but you tend to see those at more adult functions because they give off less of a high school kegger/kids birthday party vibe.
I think Hollywood uses the red ones so much because it’s an easy visual shorthand to express to the viewer exactly what kind of party is going on. They’re also are opaque, so they can just hand everyone an empty cup and not have to worry about liquid levels and visual continuity, which probably makes things a lot easier on set.
