Re:The red Solo Cup is a marvel of modern engineering
by freshflowers on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:16PM
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The latter has to do with the fact that those cups have a very different purpose, which is why the solo cups are marketed as "American party cups". The "American" refers to the format of the party as much as the cups.
At normal parties in the Netherlands we just drink beer from bottles because we have an entirely different beer and alcohol culture, without the whole age limit BS (despite recent legal changes raising the purchase age to 18).
With the exception of the transparant hard plastic cups used is stadiums and at festivals, we tend to not drink our alcohol from plastic cups.
Funny enough, the Dutch ones are completely inferior, and way more expensive. They crush easily, don't separate well, and are weirdly small, not to mention several euros for a tiny package. This has annoyed me to the point where I now bring a little stack of Solo cups each time I fly to the Netherlands.