Re:The inventor of the red Solo cup has died
by ChuckMcM on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:10PM
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Personally I'm more interested in the people with the green Solo cups :-)
On a more serious note, this is a remarkably good cup for its volume. We used to "stock" them at Blekko for people who were getting water or needed a drinking cup. One of my hats there was to keep the larder full and I ordered some alternate cups (less expensive) one time and quickly realized they didn't hold up well when full and were too easily squeezed leading to potential crack/leak failures. Clearly the guy had put a lot of thought into something which, on the outside, seemed fairly simple.
On a more serious note, this is a remarkably good cup for its volume. We used to "stock" them at Blekko for people who were getting water or needed a drinking cup. One of my hats there was to keep the larder full and I ordered some alternate cups (less expensive) one time and quickly realized they didn't hold up well when full and were too easily squeezed leading to potential crack/leak failures. Clearly the guy had put a lot of thought into something which, on the outside, seemed fairly simple.