# What's the Proper Way to Drink Out of a Tervis? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587 "2017-08-01T16:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/21 "2017-08-01T20:24:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Are these Tervis cups primarily used for cold beverages, or hot, or both? > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk Both. “Keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold.” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/22 "2017-08-01T20:42:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Are these Tervis cups primarily used for cold beverages, or hot, or both? > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk > [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > Both. “Keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold.” Although I’ve never known anyone to use one for a hot beverage, they have mugs for that. It’s mostly for holding water from the water cooler ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/23 "2017-08-01T21:12:03Z")
If it were a mug, then I’d care. I tend to drink with my right hand (except when eating), and thus I’d want the spout to the left of the handle. But with handle-less cups? Doesn’t matter to me. Makes me wonder if they worry about this sort of thing at places that give you coffee with those spout cup. Does Starbucks have specific place the barristas are supposed to put the spout? Does McDonald’s? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/24 "2017-08-01T21:18:01Z")
Looking at the pictures of them, I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever handled one, nor completely certain I know what one is. It’s just a plastic tumbler? Or a sippy cup for adults? The times I’ve been in an office, we just used a mug for hot drinks. Cool drinks just out of the bottle they came in or a can. So no vote here. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/25 "2017-08-01T21:31:02Z")
The only reason I’m familiar with them is because a friend of ours from St.Louis loves them for her kids and had to visit the Tervis Store at the Mall of America when she visited. I did buy one since I liked the idea of no condenstation on the outside of the tumbler but I never use it since I hate the lid. It’s that goofy style with the hole set too far back from the edge so you can never get the last swallow out and it usually leaves liquid on top of the lid which eventually runds down the side of the tumbler. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/26 "2017-08-01T22:26:31Z")
My first thought: “What is a Tervis?” Okay, now I know. Most Americans? I don’t think I’ve ever even seen one. Guess I don’t get out enough. I’ve seen Camelbacks. For cold drinks I favor the kind that has a screw-on lid and a permanent straw. I worked in an office where the only hard and fast rule was that all liquids consumed at your desk had to have a lid, and still I didn’t see these. Camelbacks and Nalegene bottles and lidded coffee mugs, but not these. I guess they are new? And now that I’ve Googled them I’m sure I will get ads to buy one for the next six months. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/27 "2017-08-01T22:39:57Z")
I’d never heard of them, either. They look like sippy cups for grownups. What I Learned on the Dope Today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/28 "2017-08-01T22:55:13Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > There is absolutely no advantage to using any degree of effort whatsoever to orient the label in any particular direction. The only appropriate measurement of whether a cup is being used correctly is if it safely delivers liquid to your pie hole. Shouldn’t it be your _pie juice_ hole? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/29 "2017-08-01T23:00:05Z")
Aren’t Camelbacks those soft backpack things that hold liquid and have a long drinking tube? People don’t really use those things outside of hiking and biking do they? I think I’d laugh if I saw someone wearing one at the office. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/30 "2017-08-01T23:15:26Z")
Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/31 "2017-08-01T23:21:20Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > Both. “Keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold.” How does it know? I had never heard of them either. I have had kid’s cups that look a lot like them but they didn’t have a special name. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/32 "2017-08-02T00:16:07Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Aren’t Camelbacks those soft backpack things that hold liquid and have a long drinking tube? People don’t really use those things outside of hiking and biking do they? I think I’d laugh if I saw someone wearing one at the office. Camelback has a line of insulated water bottles, too. That’s what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/33 "2017-08-02T01:05:14Z")
Prior to Googling, the term “Tervis cup” seemed like something used in the bathroom or hospital, rather than kitchen. Or perhaps something won by a sports team. If I cared, I’d align the spout with the image. Both should face me as I drink. **IF** I cared. ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/34 "2017-08-02T01:20:43Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > How does it know? > > I had never heard of them either. I have had kid’s cups that look a lot like them but they didn’t have a special name. In these parts the kids’ cups are “sippy cups”. Count me in as someone who has never heard of a Tervis cup, and the only cup of that type that I have ever seen had no logo on it, so the question of logo orientation did not arise. The notion of aligning the logo with the spout so that you can see it while you’re drinking makes no sense at all. You have eyes in your chin? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/35 "2017-08-02T01:26:35Z")
The closest things I own all have handles. The lid goes on to the opening is a quarter turn clockwise from the handle. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/36 "2017-08-02T01:37:09Z")
Never heard of a Terivis cup and unless the location of the spout relevant to the label prevents spilling, I am not going to give a single shit. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/37 "2017-08-02T01:40:32Z")
1. Never heard the term “Tervis”—completely unfamiliar with that brand name. They seem like ordinary insulated plastic tumblers that no one would care to know he brand of. 2. Why should anyone give a care which way the logo faces if there’s no relevance to the functioning of the cup? Caring about it either way seems to be a sign of some kind of unhealthy obsession, either with having to be reminded what your favorite team is or wanting to make sure that no one else can avoid knowing. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587/38 "2017-08-02T01:44:43Z")
Never heard of Tervis cups either. I thought it might have something to do with Dr. Who. The important thing, as **minlokwat** pointed out upthread, is that the spout on your coffee lid go opposite the fold in the cup. It’s an important thing to note if you don’t want coffee dribbled down your shirt. ---
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I read it as “Tardis” and was disappointed. ---
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> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I read it as “Tardis” and was disappointed. _“No matter how much I pour into it, I can’t get it to fill UP!”:smack::eek:😕_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-proper-way-to-drink-out-of-a-tervis/792587.md?page=3)