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.
Yes. Flip Cup, Beer Pong, and Keg Stands are also real.
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.
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.
its a common thing for parties, not just for beer, but for birthday parties, barbeques, holding even solid food.
We use red Solo cups everywhere, not just at parties.
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.
Yes
Naw. Not exclusively. They come in lots of colors now.
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.
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 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!
It’s America, most people have none, some have one or two, and a couple thousand people have 20+
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.
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.
Ya. We use them all the time. They’re actually good and relatively inexpensive.
