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 think everywhere else in the world, the go-to plastic disposable cup is transparent, I don't really see the red ones unless someone has gone out of their way to get them from an American importer for some reason (usually beer pong, funnily enough)
I mean I don't really go to that many parties (shocking news, Lemmy user doesn't like parties, also the Sun is hot and water is wet), but when my parents throw parties, usually they get whatever the cheapest disposable cups are.
I think the clear cups are becoming more common in the US. They are far flmisier though. This isn't a huge deal, but I guess it makes sense why solo cups are preferred for beer pong.
The ones I have in mind, the non-american transparent plastic disposable cups, most commonly seem to be 200ml.
You can probably get a 200ml (7oz) cup in the US pretty easily still but the most popular search results for "disposable plastic cup" in US sites seem to be 12-18 oz cups (340-511ml) where as the same search query in, say, German sites return the transparent 200ml cups very consistently.
Oh right, I think I basically only remember seeing that size in the UK in those cup dispensers on the side of those office water coolers, which now I think of it are something I'm also seeing less of these days.
The adherence to one type of cup is the weird thing. Most other places it seems there are many different types of cups, so there wouldn't really be any trope about a particular cup, because it would different from party to party depending on what they bought.
Most people don't care about the color. For whatever reason the factory started making them in red so that is what people bought. Other colors exist if you look for them, but there is rarely reason to look. People just grab something cheap and move on without thinking. If the red was sold out they would grab the blue.
No joke one of the things that caught me most off guard moving to Germany is that when you go to a party it's normal to bring your own cup. I'm sure there are exceptions, but most I've been to are like that
You never go to parties where there are more people than storage space for cups? Americans often do this. Often at a park. We can get this in a 100 pack for the cost of of 4 real glass cups.
One thing that gets me is someone i know has real cups, but they always use disposable plates and cups for parties with lots of people because they work in a restaurant and don't want to do the dishes on their day off. So i sort of judge but also i get it.
Yes of course, my hundreds of personal parties attended are invalid evidence compares to your personal experience of several commercial venues (which is not even what was being discussed).
I don't care about downvotes. Parties full of red plastic cups is a very American phenomenon - and also in countries that have low environmental concerns and use a lot of single-use plastics. All through Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan, its far more common to use glassware or bring your own cups. I've only been to a few keg parties because it's no cheaper than buying cans/bottles unless you're running a really big event like a wedding - and even then, proper glassware or washable plastic schooners are included in the hire contract (kegs are hired and must be returned).
I appreciate the fire , but in my parents' house we invite more people than we have glassware, plus it's less dishes to wash (which yeah, we should just wash the goddamn dishes and not create more single-user waste, but I don't throw parties myself).
Re-reading my comment it was way more aggressive than it meant to be. I think I laid on the sarcasm too thick after reading the latest Trump bullshitery. Anyway, appreciate your comment.
We culturally usually bring our glasses to parties if we are drinking something that needs a glass (eg Guiness, Kilkenny) if the gathering is over a dozen people. Keg parties require hiring the keg - and glassware (or washable plastic schooners) are included in the hire price. Kegs aren't any cheaper than buying by carton/case here unless you're doing bulk kegs for a wedding or something (Australia - we have a significant alcohol tax).
So ... in a situation like the OPs picture, you're using glassware? I'm a backyard bbq/party, you're using glassware?
When we sit down to dinner with friends/family, we use normal glasses, but when we're having large get togethers we use the disposable cups. In my house, we've switched to aluminum ones though as they can be reused and when they get too difficult to clean, they can be recycled, but they're basically the same thing as the red solo cups.
Yeah generally. Or everyone is drinking from cans / beer bottles. Keg parties are not a common thing for your average BBQ or your average student party.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. Red Solo cups. Solo makes large reinforced plastic cups that are cheap and disposable, yet very sturdy. These aren't your grandma's flimsy paper cups.
We don't use them for fancy dinner parties (well, most of us) but they're great for backyard barbecues, college parties, etc.
Not sure why this keeps getting asked, but yes. Solo cups (the original red cup) were incredibly cheap, held up decently, and were sold in large packs everywhere. They were so cheap that for a long time I don't think there were even generic options. Now days most places have their own brand and they frequently make them red just because that is what people expect.
That is most definitely a well established thing in the US going back decades: I can't count how many house parties I went to in college, birthday parties when I became a parent, etc. where they had red Solo cups. I would describe them as ubiquitous.
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.
We almost never eat out, I don't generally use box mixes, most dry stuff from scratch. So I do a lot of bulk raw ingredients (which is cheaper).
I have a lazy susan by the range that has small containers of spices, sauces and liquids for use while cooking
I have a closet in the kitchen that holds snacks, bread, potatoes pasta cereal
Those two aren't a given, but are also aren't unusual in a single family home.
Then I have one that's the size of a small walk-in closet a couple of rooms over that has jarred/canned goods, cake mixes (my one box mix exclusion), ramen, bulk dry goods. I only go grocery shopping once every couple of weeks. If something is cheaper in bulk and lasts, I'll buy it in bulk.
If something goes south with the government or the next covid, we're food secure for a couple of months.
I have what was a bedroom next to my kitchen. Tiled the floor and painted the walls the same as my kitchen, put a stand up freezer, nice white metal shelves along the walls, a coffee bar by the door, storage bench under the window, and snack table in the center of the room. Bulk sealed packages and less often used appliances in the closet. I can store so much food and ingredients, it’s probably my favorite room of the house. I often just sit on the bench and have a small snack for breakfast with my morning coffee in there.
My grandmother had a pantry like this in her basement and did the same thing. She religiously shopped deals/coupons, and stocked up on things when they were cheap. These days, I can't find a place with a pantry bigger than a coat closet. So, like you, we turned a spare room closet into a long term pantry.
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
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Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 136 pts · 51d
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.
milkisklim@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 51d
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.
irish_link@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 51d
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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 50d
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.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 54 pts · 51d
It's a real thing we do...is that weird?
9point6@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 51d
I think everywhere else in the world, the go-to plastic disposable cup is transparent, I don't really see the red ones unless someone has gone out of their way to get them from an American importer for some reason (usually beer pong, funnily enough)
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 16 pts · 51d
I mean I don't really go to that many parties (shocking news, Lemmy user doesn't like parties, also the Sun is hot and water is wet), but when my parents throw parties, usually they get whatever the cheapest disposable cups are.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 14 pts · 51d
One advantage of red cups is that you can more easily see names written on them with a Sharpie.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 50d
I think the clear cups are becoming more common in the US. They are far flmisier though. This isn't a huge deal, but I guess it makes sense why solo cups are preferred for beer pong.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 51d
White power in the Netherlands
Ghoelian@piefed.social · 3 pts · 50d
Very occasionally transparent but yeah 99% of disposable cups you get here are white (and too small imo)
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
Those transparent cups are also significantly smaller than these lol
9point6@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
How big are they? The ones I have in mind are usually either 500ml or a UK pint (568ml)
I thought the solo cups were American pint size (473ml)
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
The ones I have in mind, the non-american transparent plastic disposable cups, most commonly seem to be 200ml.
You can probably get a 200ml (7oz) cup in the US pretty easily still but the most popular search results for "disposable plastic cup" in US sites seem to be 12-18 oz cups (340-511ml) where as the same search query in, say, German sites return the transparent 200ml cups very consistently.
9point6@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
Oh right, I think I basically only remember seeing that size in the UK in those cup dispensers on the side of those office water coolers, which now I think of it are something I'm also seeing less of these days.
Rothe@piefed.social · 8 pts · 51d
The adherence to one type of cup is the weird thing. Most other places it seems there are many different types of cups, so there wouldn't really be any trope about a particular cup, because it would different from party to party depending on what they bought.
bluGill@fedia.io · 17 pts · 51d
Most people don't care about the color. For whatever reason the factory started making them in red so that is what people bought. Other colors exist if you look for them, but there is rarely reason to look. People just grab something cheap and move on without thinking. If the red was sold out they would grab the blue.
snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 51d
For a long time they were the cheap but reliable type of disposable cup. Also very common, like qtips and Kleenex.
No idea if that is still the case, but they were common for a good reason.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · -47 pts · 51d
Yes. The rest of the world uses glasses because we're adults and we don't hide the glassware from our friends.
The only time I ever see disposable cups used is at kids parties, or to play beer pong.
Steve@communick.news · 44 pts · 51d
You all really have enough glasses for 30+ people?
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 50d
No joke one of the things that caught me most off guard moving to Germany is that when you go to a party it's normal to bring your own cup. I'm sure there are exceptions, but most I've been to are like that
janus2@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 50d
wait that's a great idea. if it's a unique cup you don't have to worry about writing your name on it
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 50d
Of course i do my family has eaten more than 30 glasses of mustard in my lifetime
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 51d
We hire glasses for parties.
https://eventhireuk.com/product-category/tableware-hire/glassware-hire/
False@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Your parties are much fancier than mine if you're doing that
bluGill@fedia.io · 21 pts · 51d
You never go to parties where there are more people than storage space for cups? Americans often do this. Often at a park. We can get this in a 100 pack for the cost of of 4 real glass cups.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 51d
One thing that gets me is someone i know has real cups, but they always use disposable plates and cups for parties with lots of people because they work in a restaurant and don't want to do the dishes on their day off. So i sort of judge but also i get it.
glimse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
It's not just the work of washing them, it's the logistics! You can fill up a dishwasher or sink really fast.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 51d
Kind of weird to be simultaneously so aggressive and so wrong.
I’ve been served drinks in disposable plastic cups at bars and parties across Europe and Asia.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 50d
Yes of course, my hundreds of personal parties attended are invalid evidence compares to your personal experience of several commercial venues (which is not even what was being discussed).
I don't care about downvotes. Parties full of red plastic cups is a very American phenomenon - and also in countries that have low environmental concerns and use a lot of single-use plastics. All through Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan, its far more common to use glassware or bring your own cups. I've only been to a few keg parties because it's no cheaper than buying cans/bottles unless you're running a really big event like a wedding - and even then, proper glassware or washable plastic schooners are included in the hire contract (kegs are hired and must be returned).
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
You’ll note I did not only specify bars and other commercial establishments, but also private parties at homes and in outdoor spaces.
It’s also extremely presumptive (and flat-out wrong) to assume I also don’t have hundreds of examples of this.
Finally, I’d draw your attention to the fact that I never said “red plastic” in reference to usage outside North America.
All in, you really suck at reading bud. You should also take a look at the way you process people disagreeing with you and your anger issues.
Have a nice day and maybe try to be better than you were yesterday.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 50d
Haha.. OK pal. Have a great one.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 11 pts · 51d
I appreciate the fire
, but in my parents' house we invite more people than we have glassware, plus it's less dishes to wash (which yeah, we should just wash the goddamn dishes and not create more single-user waste, but I don't throw parties myself).
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
Re-reading my comment it was way more aggressive than it meant to be. I think I laid on the sarcasm too thick after reading the latest Trump bullshitery. Anyway, appreciate your comment.
We culturally usually bring our glasses to parties if we are drinking something that needs a glass (eg Guiness, Kilkenny) if the gathering is over a dozen people. Keg parties require hiring the keg - and glassware (or washable plastic schooners) are included in the hire price. Kegs aren't any cheaper than buying by carton/case here unless you're doing bulk kegs for a wedding or something (Australia - we have a significant alcohol tax).
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 51d
Upvoted, but it's "fewer" in this case (countable)
TVA@thebrainbin.org · 10 pts · 51d
So ... in a situation like the OPs picture, you're using glassware? I'm a backyard bbq/party, you're using glassware?
When we sit down to dinner with friends/family, we use normal glasses, but when we're having large get togethers we use the disposable cups. In my house, we've switched to aluminum ones though as they can be reused and when they get too difficult to clean, they can be recycled, but they're basically the same thing as the red solo cups.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
Yeah generally. Or everyone is drinking from cans / beer bottles. Keg parties are not a common thing for your average BBQ or your average student party.
Denvil@piefed.world · 49 pts · 51d
It's not like there aren't other disposable cups used, but yeah, very common
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 51d
I only use
howrar@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 51d
Ah, the dentist cup
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 51d
It'll always be the Taco Bell water cup to me.
tophneal@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 51d
The peak of 90s design. Love me some jazz
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 51d
I have a car near me painted like this. Can't say I'm not jelly.
Amro@piefed.social · 4 pts · 50d
Coincidence, someone asked for a cutout decal for a gastank.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 50d
I really wish I could see the rest of the bike. Looks very cool.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 51d
I had the exact same shirt!!
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Everyone did
tophneal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 51d
I have a shirt and shorts with it lol they’re always a hit at the bar
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 51d
Scrape that wax
jaaake@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 51d
Whiskey will destroy this cup in tens of minutes. I've done science on it.
DokPsy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
Drink faster then
adarza@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 51d
or skip the cup and chug the bottle instead.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 51d
Why would whiskey be in a cup for tens of minutes?
aim4harmony@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Tis designa cuppa ✨
PNW_Doug@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 50d
Red cups are like yellow school buses. Both are real.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
And largely used by children.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
how else are they supposed to sneak booze?
Tiral@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
They use cups? Do they put a nipple on it too?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
only if they're Irish.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 51d
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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 51d
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 😁
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 51d
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.
FeatsOfDerringDo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
Did you consider she might have been being sarcastic?
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
No, because the way she said it made it clear that was not the case. Also, they did typically drink cheaper beer like Schlitz.
groucho@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 50d
It's not like you suggested something really classy, like Coors Banquet.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
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)
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 51d
I drank cliquot veuve (? I think that's how you spell it) out of a red solo cup one new years.
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 51d
Veuve Clicquot. Nearly all the right letters, just the wrong order.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 50d
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
.... that's....the same definition. What do you think that's referring to?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 51d
They're called Solo Cups.
bluGill@fedia.io · 25 pts · 51d
Solo is the brand that makes them. They make other colors too but red is by far most common
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
100%
Still call them “Solo cups,” though.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
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.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 51d
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.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 31 pts · 51d
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 51d
I ... what?!
new_world_odor@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 51d
Selling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 50d
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.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 50d
These aren't parties in the sense of house party thrown by friends. These are essentially large "open' events hosted by a group.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 50d
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.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
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
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 50d
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.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 51d
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 50d
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.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 51d
Why would this be hard to believe
Edit: oops my privilege is showing, mb yall
snooggums@piefed.world · 22 pts · 51d
"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?"
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 51d
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 50d
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?
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 50d
When the weather is nice we sure did.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
You right
My bad. It's bc privilege. I work on it.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 51d
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
blarghly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
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
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 51d
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.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 51d
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
Hirohito@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 51d
How terrible!
bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 50d
You're supposed to have a plastic handle for it.
myrmidex@belgae.social · 2 pts · 50d
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.
lamlox@piefed.social · 20 pts · 51d
Family events with a sharpie so everyone knows which drink is theirs
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 50d
its a common thing for parties, not just for beer, but for birthday parties, barbeques, holding even solid food.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 50d
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.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 50d
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.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 50d
Naw. Not exclusively. They come in lots of colors now.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 51d
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 15 pts · 50d
We use red Solo cups everywhere, not just at parties.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 51d
Red Solo cups
2fm@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
I fill you up
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 51d
let have a party
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup (Unedited Version)
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 51d
Iconic song but ugh... Toby Keith...
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 51d
What'd Toby Keith do?
Edit: I'm actually kinda happy this got no replies, cause I got fam that used to serve him and said homie was "sweet as pie".
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 50d
Being Toby Keith
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 50d
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?
genzboomer@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 50d
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.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 50d
Traditionally, one person sips from the bottle, then shares with the homies via French kiss. More hygienic that way.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
I was really hoping for a beer bong.
But I guess Bros before Hose is true across the globe.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 50d
We pour the soda in our hands and try not to spill as we gesture during conversation 🤌
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
Heh, that's cool.
Technoworcester@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 50d
We use glasses that we clean afterwards rather than plastic that gets binned.
Duckingold@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
How do you play slapcup then?
Technoworcester@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 50d
If I knew what the fuck slapcup was I'd have an answer for you.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
The fuck????
blackbeans@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 50d
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.
southernbrewer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
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
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 51d
I see this question all the time. It's just a disposable cup, why is the rest of the world so obsessed with it?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 50d
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.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 50d
For a while that was practically true. Solo dominated the market (i worked a crappy retail job where I stocked them).
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
fair enough
folekaule@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 51d
Yes. Red Solo cups. Solo makes large reinforced plastic cups that are cheap and disposable, yet very sturdy. These aren't your grandma's flimsy paper cups.
We don't use them for fancy dinner parties (well, most of us) but they're great for backyard barbecues, college parties, etc.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 50d
This gets asked so much, I feel like I need to contribute something new to the conversation…
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
Those recyclable metal ones are awesome.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 50d
Not sure why this keeps getting asked, but yes. Solo cups (the original red cup) were incredibly cheap, held up decently, and were sold in large packs everywhere. They were so cheap that for a long time I don't think there were even generic options. Now days most places have their own brand and they frequently make them red just because that is what people expect.
TrapRag@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 49d
Sometimes they're blue
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 50d
That is most definitely a well established thing in the US going back decades: I can't count how many house parties I went to in college, birthday parties when I became a parent, etc. where they had red Solo cups. I would describe them as ubiquitous.
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 51d
Yes, it is a real thing we do.
mvirts@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 50d
Yes
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 50d
Toby Keith literally made an ode to the Red Solo Cup.
I remember being drunk, with a red solo cup, singing along to this song, at a frat... more than once.
Yes, its safe to say the red solo cup is an actual cultural phenomenon.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 51d
I know this! https://youtu.be/ztHq1NLEbio?t=9m4s (note the timestamp, 9:04)
Short version: surprisingly, yes!
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 50d
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.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 51d
Yeah. How else are you supposed to play beer pong?
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
Ya. We use them all the time. They're actually good and relatively inexpensive.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 50d
I have a few hundred in my bigger pantry
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 50d
How many pantries do you have?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 50d
More than I should, even for the US.
We almost never eat out, I don't generally use box mixes, most dry stuff from scratch. So I do a lot of bulk raw ingredients (which is cheaper).
I have a lazy susan by the range that has small containers of spices, sauces and liquids for use while cooking
I have a closet in the kitchen that holds snacks, bread, potatoes pasta cereal
Those two aren't a given, but are also aren't unusual in a single family home.
Then I have one that's the size of a small walk-in closet a couple of rooms over that has jarred/canned goods, cake mixes (my one box mix exclusion), ramen, bulk dry goods. I only go grocery shopping once every couple of weeks. If something is cheaper in bulk and lasts, I'll buy it in bulk.
If something goes south with the government or the next covid, we're food secure for a couple of months.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 50d
I have what was a bedroom next to my kitchen. Tiled the floor and painted the walls the same as my kitchen, put a stand up freezer, nice white metal shelves along the walls, a coffee bar by the door, storage bench under the window, and snack table in the center of the room. Bulk sealed packages and less often used appliances in the closet. I can store so much food and ingredients, it’s probably my favorite room of the house. I often just sit on the bench and have a small snack for breakfast with my morning coffee in there.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 49d
sounds awesome!
sartalon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
My grandmother had a pantry like this in her basement and did the same thing. She religiously shopped deals/coupons, and stocked up on things when they were cheap. These days, I can't find a place with a pantry bigger than a coat closet. So, like you, we turned a spare room closet into a long term pantry.
barnacul@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 50d
It's America, most people have none, some have one or two, and a couple thousand people have 20+
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 51d
Yes, but sometimes they're other colors.
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 49d
Yes. My wife also puts Sharpies next to the stack of Solo cups so everyone at the party can write their name on their cup.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 50d
I buy them, probably influenced by said movies
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 50d
Theyre also handy for mixing expoxy or paint.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 50d
Use them at home too. They coming all kinds of colors and patterns now, but yeah.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 51d
They're regulation beer pong size, so we used a lot of them.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
Well past the age or inclination for a kegger, but last time I wanted plastic cups for something, red Solo cups were the least expensive choice.
It was ok for my use but I tried to give a short stack to my kid for college and apparently they’re banned
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 50d
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
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Yeah. They're cheap and easy to clean up.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 50d
And they all drink coffee from these cups...
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 51d
Only those that support communism. It's a secret sign that I've now exposed because communism should be the end goal.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
There a song about it.
Forester@pawb.social · 1 pts · 50d
Red Solo cup I fill you up Let's have a party!
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
Costco sells them in Australia. So, I have to imagine there's a modicum of truth?
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
It’s not just America, they’re a go-to for cheap disposable cups - the type you’d buy for a party.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 51d
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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 50d
Even a once annoyingly popular country song just about the red solo cup.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
Not me. I use a red metal cup.
Insulated. Screw on lid with water-tight seal and latch. May it be the last cup I ever buy.
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 1 pts · 49d
Yes. Flip Cup, Beer Pong, and Keg Stands are also real.