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.
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.
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 only use
Ah, the dentist cup
It’ll always be the Taco Bell water cup to me.
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?
Scrape that wax
The peak of 90s design. Love me some jazz
I had the exact same shirt!!
I have a shirt and shorts with it lol they’re always a hit at the bar
Everyone did
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.
Tis designa cuppa ✨
There a song about it.
What are other countries doing? Is it just a ‘bring your own cup’ thing? Do y’all just have a hundred cups on hand for parties?
We usually just limit the number of friends we invite to match the number of cups we own.
For example, I don’t own any cups.
Plastic cups are not all that prevalent anymore in homes here in Europe for environmental reasons.
Paper cups are used for drinking parties. But if we want to be inviting to our guests we serve drinks in glasses. Glass can be quickly cleaned and reused so no need to have hundreds of them.
Who’s having parties with a couple hundred people? Is that like a wedding or something
I have enough cups in my house for the 40 people max at any party I’ve ever hosted
Traditionally, one person sips from the bottle, then shares with the homies via French kiss. More hygienic that way.
I was really hoping for a beer bong.
But I guess Bros before Hose is true across the globe.
We use glasses that we clean afterwards rather than plastic that gets binned.
How do you play slapcup then?
If I knew what the fuck slapcup was I’d have an answer for you.
We pour the soda in our hands and try not to spill as we gesture during conversation 🤌
OMG the horror. ASL is my “drunk accent”.
I grew up around deaf family and we all learned sign language before we learned to talk. The more I drink, the more my hands start to sign along with me.
Heh, that’s cool.
silo but they can be blue or yellow as well now but red was almost the only thing available at one point. I hate them.
They’re regulation beer pong size, so we used a lot of them.
I don’t know about in the states but I’m Canadian and have seen red plastic cups at drinking parties. People play games with them, like flipcup and beer pong
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.
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
Can confirm. Every vacation in my younger days, mom brought these along. Horrible crinkly plastic. I’ve never bought disposable cups ever, I do reckon it’s because of these.
How terrible!
You’re supposed to have a plastic handle for it.
Red Solo cups
I fill you up
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.
Most commonly kegs when growing up for a large scale. Usually you pay $5 for a cup all you can drink.
On a smaller scale, picnics I guess? Idk I don’t really go to ragers these days and the amount of gusts to parties Ingo to don’t exceed the amount of cups somebody has.
I buy them, probably influenced by said movies
I know this! https://youtu.be/ztHq1NLEbio?t=9m4s (note the timestamp, 9:04)
Short version: surprisingly, yes!
I see this question all the time. It’s just a disposable cup, why is the rest of the world so obsessed with it?
Because it is very distinctive, and it’s ubiquitous in American media to the point where it seems no other disposable cup exists over there.
For a while that was practically true. Solo dominated the market (i worked a crappy retail job where I stocked them).
fair enough
