# Anybody else have an aversion to certain cups? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320 "2002-06-10T22:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/21 "2002-06-11T15:26:00Z")
Yeah, I won’t weat a jocks cup for sports. But then Im not into sports. I like styrofoam cups cause my guests drop my glass ones & strofoam is cheap & don’t have to wash them. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/22 "2002-06-11T15:27:54Z")
I guess the only kind that really bother me are the ones with gold leaf on them. Not that we’re awash in them but we did get some for wedding presents and they just seem so darn impractical and pretentious, especially with a pinkie-rection. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/23 "2002-06-11T15:42:33Z")
It creeps me out to drink soda from ceramics (like a coffee cup). Not that it’s a normal thing, but sometimes you’re all out of glasses. Just doesn’t work for me. Try it and see! ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/24 "2002-06-12T05:46:40Z")
All cupa are euual, but some cups are more equal than others. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/25 "2002-06-12T12:40:26Z")
I also prefer glass or ceramic. I don’t like drinking out of plastic cups, although I do have some for my kids. I cannot drink milk out of a plastic cup. As **peedin** said, I also don’t like clear coffee cups. I like my coffee in a regular mug. Having coffee in a clear mug is just strange. I know there’s a certain dessert coffee (Irish coffee?) that is supposed to be served in that clear mug, but it still seems odd. > [@](#): > > _EchoKitty said:_\*\* > I can tell you my all-time favorite drinking receptacle is a colored aluminum cup (filled with cold milk!). I have fond memories of drinking from these in my aunt’s yard when I was little. It makes the milk SMELL good!\*\* Eww, I can remember eating dinner at a friend’s house when I was little and they had aluminum cups (or pewter maybe? they weren’t colored) and I thought it made the milk taste WEIRD! They made the milk taste metallic. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/26 "2002-06-12T12:47:26Z")
I hate thick insulated cups and thick heavy glass cups. The first because it makes all drinks taste flat and the second because, well I don’t really know, but nothing tastes right out of them. I much prefer those thin plastic cups like you get at McDonald’s, the disposable kind you buy in the store or styrofoam. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/27 "2002-06-12T14:14:37Z")
I cannot stand styrofoam cups. And those little paper cone cups you use to see at water fountains? ::shiver:: In fact, all paper cups. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/28 "2002-06-12T15:17:47Z")
Mugs above all else. Mugs for OJ, mugs for tea, mugs for just about everything. Except beer. Beer must go in one of my steins or the appropriate beer glass (of which I have many). And Martinis. Martinis must go in a cocktail glass. Oh, and wine goes in a small goblet. The only reason I actually own glass glasses is for guests-- but they’re likely to get mugs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320/29 "2002-06-12T21:21:31Z")
I refuse to have pint glasses in my house any more , But for practical rather than aesthetic reasons. I never remember to wash them out, and my dishwasher sucks, So they always have a little ring of dried crud around the bottom. Then I have to try to scrape it out but my damn hand doesn’t fit and at least three times the glass has shattered cutting my fairly bad. So most of my drinking at home is out of coffee cups, where my fingers can reach, or rotund plastic cups. I also have some cool goblets that I use alot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-have-an-aversion-to-certain-cups/113320.md?page=1)