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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.
Sometimes they're blue
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.
Theyre also handy for mixing expoxy or paint.
its a common thing for parties, not just for beer, but for birthday parties, barbeques, holding even solid food.
Red cups are like yellow school buses. Both are real.
We use red Solo cups everywhere, not just at parties.
Yes. Flip Cup, Beer Pong, and Keg Stands are also real.
Naw. Not exclusively. They come in lots of colors now.
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.
Yes
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.
It's a real thing we do...is that weird?
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)
Those transparent cups are also significantly smaller than these lol
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)
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.
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.
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.
I have a few hundred in my bigger pantry
How many pantries do you have?
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.
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.
sounds awesome!
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.
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.
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.
Ya. We use them all the time. They're actually good and relatively inexpensive.
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.
This gets asked so much, I feel like I need to contribute something new to the conversation…
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.
We pour the soda in our hands and try not to spill as we gesture during conversation 🤌
Traditionally, one person sips from the bottle, then shares with the homies via French kiss. More hygienic that way.
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.
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.
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
Use them at home too. They coming all kinds of colors and patterns now, but yeah.
