I personally loathe all styrofoam containers…something about that styrofoam drives me crazy and I won’t drink anything from such a cup.
I don’t drink coffee much anymore, but only like drinking it from a large mug - no paper cups, no small coffee cups and saucers, and certainly no styrofoam cups.
I am a Diet Coke fan, but oddly find Diet Pepsi acceptable - but only if I drink it from a cold can - not a plastic bottle or from a soda fountain.
Milk has to be (obviously to me) very cold, and drunk only from a real glass made out of real glass.
I am surprisingly liberal with beer - bottle, can, mug from tap, plastic cup at parties. All good.
I have a Camelbak water bottle and I drink out of that 99% of the time. I don’t drink Kool Aid much anymore but when I do, it’s from plastic “souvenir” cups I collected from the baseball stadium. Pop I drink out of a can.
For some reason I just don’t trust myself with a glass cup.
I have a whole cupboard of glassware and mugs that I never use, except for company. Even company gets the big souvenir cups. I have a lot of them
Funny thing…the other day I was cleaning the Camelbak and I decided to let some parts sit in bleach water for a bit. I was going to soak them during dinner. And I had a moment of panic wondering how the heck I was going to drink water with dinner if my water bottle was otherwise occupied.
Plastic glasses don’t cut it for wine unless you are at least 100 miles from civilization. Decent beer needs to be served in an appropriate glass. Mass produced swill is “good” from whatever container. Soda doesn’t matter.
I don’t like styrofoam either but other than that I’m not really picky. I always choose glass over plastic over paper, but it’s pretty much a non-issue for me.
My only real preference is to use bottles whenever possible, because I have a tendency to spill things on myself when I use a glass. It makes me a philistine when it comes to beer, but whatever. At home I drink filtered water, and I pour it from the Brita pitcher into a water bottle.
A glass full of something at a restaurant is ok as long as I can have a straw.
Cans are ok for soda sometimes.
I don’t generally have eye-hand coordination issues, just when it comes to drinking from glasses.
I don’t want to drink anything from a mug or glass that has something written on it for the same reason that I don’t wear t-shirts with things written on them.
I am no longer in college so I don’t want to ever drink anything from a plastic cup.
I like martinis but hate martini glasses. They just don’t feel right in my hand.
Those little dainty cups and saucers for tea or coffee… they just make me angry.
I dislike martinis and “martini”, or cocktail glasses. It’s as if someone sat down and said, “Let’s come up with a piece of drinkware that practically ensures that you will slosh some of your beverage over the sides and onto your shirt, the floor, whatever.” And by god, they came up with the perfect design to achieve that end!
Anyway, that mini-rant aside, I’m not too picky, other than that I don’t care for soda in plastic bottles. It’s different in some way I can’t really put my finger on.
I don’t want to drink out of a plastic cup with my name on it in marker. I’m convinced the ink leaches through the plastic and goes to my brain, and also tastes bad.
I only like soda from a bottle because the can is too fizzy. My husband prefers the opposite.
At home every drinking glass we have is a jar. We have quite the collection; all shapes and sizes from shotglass size to a huge pickle jar for when you’re really that thirsty.
I’m not that picky, except that I have a heavy blue mug that I LOVE using for milk. The blue is a very deep, intense blue, and something about it makes the milk taste better. Are they still using real cobalt to make blue glaze? It’s probably the heavy metals I’m ingesting that make the milk taste so good.
One thing that does make me a little crazy is when people are SO into glass that they sulk about using non-glass when visiting me at the lake. It’s a beach, there’s no glass allowed. There’s like 50 million little kids and dogs running around with no shoes, and we’re standing on a concrete pier.
I have a very nice selection of elegant glassware that we can use when socializing inside. But once we’re out on the beach, just STFU and drink out of your plastic cup.
I hadn’t thought of that. I do that at work. I really only drink water at work and it’s always in a bottle with the cap on AND I tend to knock it over at least once a week (usually violently and with no chance of ‘catching’ it before it falls). On top of that, from time to time I’ll someone else will be sitting at my desk with a (gasp) cup of water or can of soda and I’ll ‘scold’ them for that and ask them to at least move it off the desk. Hey, there’s a lot of paper work on my desk, an expensive keyboard, my phone etc…just put a cap on it or move it somewhere else.
The funny thing is, I’ve seen everyone else spill stuff on their desks and they just keep livin’ on the edge. A few months ago, someone walked into the office (which is up a step) and in an odd series of events, the clock fell off the wall, landed on his giant cup of water, knocked it over and it poured all over his desk, keyboard, chair, computer etc. It was kinda funny. A few hours later, I walked into the office and the exact same thing happened. That is, the clock fell off the wall, hit his giant cup of water and spilled all over his desk.
Beyond that, not too concerned about what I drink out of.
Pop only from cans, and if I’m at a restaurant, have to have a straw. Bottle makes it too fizzy for me.
Water only from bottles - don’t like the gulps that come from glasses, I prefer to pour it in my mouth.
Hot liquids only in mugs. Gotta have a handle, even though some times i grip the mug and tuck my fingers under the handle.
I prefer booze in glasses, but don’t really care.
For milk and stuff at home, I prefer to use old jelly glasses. Don’t know why, but I think it’s because the heavier lip of the glass prevents the “gulping” effect I don’t care for.
My husband has a jar glass he uses. I loathe it, and can’t wait for it to break.
I have a particular mug that I like to use for my coffee at home. No good reason - that’s just what I like. I like soda out of the can or from a straw, but in a glass with ice is less comfortable for me to drink without a straw.
I drink more water than anything, and I drink it out of an intak bottle at work. At home, out of a rocks or highball glass.
Beer- its own glass bottle, but I occasionally like to use a pint tumbler, the kind with the bulge about 1/3 of the way from the lip. I have a few at home. Pouring the beer into the tumbler helps dissipate the carbonation and reduce my fartiness.
Wine- a glass wineglass, with a stem.
Coffee- one of several mugs my kids have given me.
Martini- I love my Verve cocktail glass from Crate & Barrel.
I have a collection of a couple hundred beer glasses. Sometimes I struggle over picking the right one. Crystal wine glasses, even if we’re just drinking cheap wine on the patio. On the rocks glasses must weigh a few pounds, empty.
I’m almost certain that the ink doesn’t penetrate the plastic. You’re probably smelling the fumes from the ink. However, that alone is a perfectly good reason to dislike the practice!
The containers I most dislike are those cardboard boxes with pointy tops that orange juice comes in, the kind where you have to push-and-pull to make them open. They don’t open neatly, and the pointy corner of the opening is always at risk for leaking.
I also don’t like the rectangular little juice boxes where you have to poke a pointy straw through a little foil seal. You can’t drain 'em to the last drop; there always remains just a little juice at the bottom. I don’t like those guys at all!
And I don’t like bottles that have a foil or cardboard seal inside the screw-off cap. I’ll trust the cap, thanks! Having to take the cap off and then mess with the seal is a pita.
ETA: these are all engineering issues more than issues of taste, preference, or custom, I guess.
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(which, however, should be near and dear to the hearts of all who hate those plastic foam cups)
That’s NOT styrofoam!
Styrofoam is that crunchy stuff you made Christmas and Hanukkah decorations with (along with copious additions of white glue and glitter) when you were a kid.
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ETA: Styrofoam™ is a trade-mark of Dow Chemical Company, and should be written with a capital S.
