# Any Preferences For Drinking Specific Things From Specific Containers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547 "2013-03-21T16:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/21 "2013-03-21T22:49:02Z")
Box wine can be amazingly good. Poured into crystal. Drunk by candlelight. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/22 "2013-03-21T22:50:51Z")
I drink my light lemonade out of an old-style [Propel bottle](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R_WKyx6_Pyk/SbkrpNEu1_I/AAAAAAAAAaI/Rlkb2wcVZgY/s320/old+propel.jpg). I love the feel of the mouthpiece, and that you can easily twist it closed to prevent spills. When they stopped making this style bottle, I stocked up. I probably have enough of these bottles to last me the rest of my life, especially when you consider that I’ve been using my current one for about 3 years. I buy the lemonade in cans in 12-paks, and pour it from the can into the bottle. I drink hot tea from a variety of mugs, depending on whether I’m adding milk or sweetener, and how dark I want the tea to be. I drink tripleX (aka Glaceau vitaminwater) from the bottle, using a straw. If I drink water, I generally just put a mug under the tap. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/23 "2013-03-21T23:22:24Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > 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! That’s because people expect them to be filled to the brim. They were designed for a **standard-sized** cocktail, which will fill a glass _halfway_ to the brim. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/24 "2013-03-21T23:33:28Z")
I thought I was the only weirdo. I only like water if I drink it from a bottle. Preferably a plastic bottle with a small opening [like this](http://canadianfreestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/011W378818110001_20100422120359873.jpg?2f38d4). [These ones](http://www.greeniacs.com/images/guides/bottle5.jpg) are okay too, but not as good. Metal ones suck. I absolutely hate drinking straight unflavored water from a glass. I think maybe it’s the dishwasher detergent residue that bugs me, but I can’t be sure. I like milk from a glass, and juice is okay too. Just not water. I don’t like drinking anything from a mug except hot drinks. My husband likes to drink milk from coffee mugs and it always bugs me a little when I ask him for a glass of milk and he brings a mug. He thinks I’m nuts. He may be right. Tall skinny glasses are infinitely better than stubby fat ones. Styrofoam is horrible because of the squeak. I avoid that stuff when possible. Sodas are okay in bottles or in cans, but I find I prefer drinking Coke and Dr Pepper from cans. Maybe the metal enhances the taste for me. I _will_ drink from whatever is available, but left to my own devices, I definitely have preferences. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/25 "2013-03-21T23:55:58Z")
Most sodas are OK from a bottle. Like **DMark** , though, I prefer diet pepsi from a can, although from a fountain isn’t too bad either. I really liked it when it came in the 16 oz. returnable bottles. Holy crap, those would stay cold forever if you iced them down for a few minutes. Coffee at home is always from a mug (and I even have preferred ones for it). At work, where no glass or ceramic is permitted, I use a steel clad travel mug. It doesn’t taste as good. Hot tea is from a mug or cup. Not the same ones I like for coffee though. 😛 Iced tea is always from a glass. Milk from a glass or mug. Wine is always from a stemmed wine glass. Beer is generally from a bottle or a heavy, frosted beer mug. Cocktails from the appropriate glasses. For everything else, hot drinks in ceramic mugs, cold drinkd in glasses. These are preferences and exceptions are made for drinks from the drive thru or another’s home, but having a home where no children live means there isn’t a lot of breakage and I just like glass or ceramic so much better. ---
**Author:** ![KermitTheFrig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@KermitTheFrig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KermitTheFrig)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/26 "2013-03-22T00:00:19Z")
I prefer to drink from glass or ceramic for both cold and hot drinks. I particularly dislike softer plastic, Tupperware-style glasses. Nor do I like plastic soda or water bottles. I’ll drink soda from a can and I’m okay with fast-food beverage cups because I’m drinking them with a straw. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/27 "2013-03-22T00:03:08Z")
I drink things out of any old containers. Drank beer from a funnel once. Won’t do that again though. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/28 "2013-03-22T02:44:19Z")
Preferences: Beer from a can Wine from a wine glass Scotch from a heavy short glass tumbler Coffee or tea from a mug if I’m drinking soft drink (pop) or water, whatever. Doesn’t matter or change the taste. Having said that, I’ll drink cold beer out of almost anything, including the bloody plastic cups they serve it in at the football. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/29 "2013-03-22T05:46:58Z")
I despise plastic cups…I don’t think we own even a single one. Hot drinks must be drunk from mugs, but never cold drinks. Most soda I prefer from cans, but colas from plastic bottles are usually okay, as long as they aren’t diet. Diet soda from plastic bottles are terrible. I don’t mind water from plastic bottles, but I prefer glass. Non-diet colas in styrofoam cups with ice are the BEST THING EVER. In restaurants I must use a straw. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/30 "2013-03-22T05:55:06Z")
I generally drink milk from a china mug, other cold drinks from a glass (except beer, which I would usually drink straight from can or bottle, unless served it in a glass or stein by someone else). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/31 "2013-03-22T06:09:47Z")
Milk, when I do drink it has to be super cold and in glass. When I force myself to drink milk from time to time, I pour a glass at night before bed and drink it in the morning, then rinse out the glass in cold cold water until it is clean and clear, then re fill the glass for my next glass in the evening. If I am not in a drinking milk routine but am eating cake, then I chill the glass under the cold tap and pour the milk in. Tea\* in a china “looks like a paper cup” mug, and coffee in a mug with a handle. (\*Red rose or other orange pekoe or black teas. Herbal teas are in a clear glass mug.) I would like water in a glass bottle, but I settle for whatever is at hand. (It tastes better out of a cleaned out Arizona Ice tea bottle, but if I have to settle for plastic a Fiji water bottle is the best.) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/32 "2013-03-22T12:41:25Z")
If I’m not drinking from my giant Maine Diner mug, it’s not really coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/33 "2013-03-22T13:23:40Z")
Coffee and tea in the biggest mug possible, please. Our everyday mugs hold 16oz, My Very Special Mug holds 20oz. Gin and tonics from our rainbow-spotted balloon glasses. We only have three of these left. I’ve been looking for adequate replacements for several years and have yet to spot any. Port and sherry from our port-sherry glasses, because I’m so pleased that I found some I liked. Other than that, I’m not very picky. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/34 "2013-03-22T13:31:29Z")
I hate drinking my beer from a can or bottle. It must be served in a glass. Pop, too, must be in a glass. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/35 "2013-03-22T15:02:52Z")
Wine or milk must be drunk from a glass. Hot drinks should come from a ceramic or glass mug, although I’d prefer ceramic because glass cools too quickly. Prefer beer from bottle or glass. Will drink soda any which way, but prefer glass. Iced tea, water, juice – anything will do. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/36 "2013-03-22T17:41:25Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > So you have a [drinking problem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4plPGRG8o)? > [@Snickers](#): > > **Misnomer** , sounds like you have a drinking problem. 😃 Surely, you can’t be serious! > [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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). Oddly enough, I hardly ever knock glasses/bottles/drinks-in-general over or spill them that way. It’s just when it comes to getting the liquid from the glass to my mouth…that’s when I sometimes have trouble. Often enough to prefer drinking from bottles whenever possible. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/37 "2013-03-22T18:13:14Z")
Oh, I have found my tribe! Tea from a china cup. A ceramic mug will do in a pinch, but it tastes best from fine bone china. Coffee from a mug. NOTHING from a stainless steel cup. What am I, in prison? Most travel mugs are stainless steel and I hate that. Nice when I can find ceramic travel mugs. THREAD HIJACK: I was traveling through Europe with a guy who was a world traveler but was born and raised mostly in England. When I told him about cup-holders in American cars he was convinced I was pulling his leg. (Partly because I was laughing so hard at his incredulity. Of all the weird stuff we Americans do he thought drinking our coffee in the car was the one not to believe?) He would not believe me that there were cupholders built into American cars and that we even made special “travel mugs” that would fit in them. When I told him my Honda FIT has 10 cupholders in it (true fact) he was definitely convinced I was bullshitting him. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/38 "2013-03-22T18:16:10Z")
My enjoyment of drinking beer at home has gone way up\* since I realized that my beer mugs fit in my freezer just like the ones at the bar fit in theirs. Also, when I was drinking Mexican beer primarily, that one did not need a restaurant operator’s license to buy limes. 😉 \*Possibly too far. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/39 "2013-03-22T18:23:34Z")
> [@Girl\_Next\_Door](#): > > Oh, I have found my tribe! > > Tea from a china cup. A ceramic mug will do in a pinch, but it tastes best from fine bone china. > > Coffee from a mug. > > NOTHING from a stainless steel cup. What am I, in prison? Most travel mugs are stainless steel and I hate that. Nice when I can find ceramic travel mugs. > > THREAD HIJACK: I was traveling through Europe with a guy who was a world traveler but was born and raised mostly in England. When I told him about cup-holders in American cars he was convinced I was pulling his leg. (Partly because I was laughing so hard at his incredulity. Of all the weird stuff we Americans do he thought drinking our coffee in the car was the one not to believe?) He would not believe me that there were cupholders built into American cars and that we even made special “travel mugs” that would fit in them. When I told him my Honda FIT has 10 cupholders in it (true fact) he was definitely convinced I was bullshitting him. Note to Hijack: I worked in a BMW factory once, which was full of German nationals who worked there for a couple years before they went back to the homeland. They, too, were gobstopped at the cup holders in the American made Beemers. “But… why? You don’t eat or drink while you’re driving… You’re supposed to be _driving_!” They have the Autobahn. We have cup holders. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547/40 "2013-03-22T18:29:40Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > They have the Autobahn. We have cup holders. 🆒 They win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-preferences-for-drinking-specific-things-from-specific-containers/653547.md?page=3)