Yeah well right now it’s running in the direction of 75 percent say it doesn’t matter and I have doubts about the strength of the conviction of the remaining 25 percent.
I only knew what Tervis was because I sell them. Or rather, I take orders for them from companies who want a substantial amount of them with their logo on it. Never once occurred to me that there was a right way to drink from it, though. 
The one that I saw (mentioned upthread) was as far as I can tell essentially identical to the google images, and it was one of those situations where you pay (amount of money well below $10) for it and got free fountain drink refills for (unit of time) in it at (convenience store chain.)
You got an answer: hardly anyone thinks about, or cares about where the logo faces.
No, of course it’s not completely blank. I was just objecting to the use of the word “label” because that seems to connote that there’s something stuck on the outside, but the design is on the inside, between the two layers.
I’m not sure where you’re getting this notion that the days of people who own Tervis tumblers revolve around their Tervis tumblers. I bought mine on a whim because I was at a work conference in San Diego, was walking around the area near the convention center during lunch break and encountered a Tervis store, decided I’d like a San Diego themed souvenir, so I went in and bought one. I think it says “San Diego” on it, and has a picture of a lighthouse and some flowers, and I think the design wraps around the whole tumbler, but honestly I’ve never paid enough attention to be sure. I certainly didn’t buy it because it was something I wanted to show off; since I brought it home it has never left my apartment. And when I drink out of it I’m usually looking at my TV screen, not the tumbler. The thought of which direction the words “San Diego” or the picture of the lighthouse are facing have never once been on my mind as I snapped the lid on.
Do you have OCD or something? It’s pretty weird to care so much about something like this. And as you can see from most of the responses in this thread, most other people feel the same way.
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I for one am very disappointed that a Tervis is not something less lame.
Don’t have one.
Lots of coffee mugs with crap on 'em though.
What’s getting me with these responses is the apparently seriousness you all took this topic to be.
The fact that most people hadn’t heard of the Tervis brand nonwithstanding (that’s actually been the most interesting part of the thread to me tbh), the latest batches of responses have made it seem like where the label goes is a matter of life and death, or something that needs actual, serious discussion about.
I started the thread because of a dumb comment I made to Ms. Cups, which caused her to retort with another dumb comment, which lead me to think “Hm, I wonder what my internet friends will say”. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. My desire to entertain myself during my workday was more of a reason to start the thread than any actual opinions I have on the subject.
Never heard the word. My auto repair shop gives them out when you pay the bill, I guess to make you feel better.
I have no need for them, hence they are gone.
I had no Tervis cup, but I did have a big plastic mug with a lid. It was acquired by my ex, who at the time was the local gastroenterologist’s chief proctoscope washer. The label on the mug was of a GI nurse dressed in black latex, wielding a long proctoscope as a whip. I drank coffee from it as I wandered the halls of the Junior High where I taught science. Only a couple people- former patients of aforementioned doc- got the joke.
Umm, thanks, but I’m not thirsty any more.
At work I use a used Costco water bottle where I’ve removed the label. I refill it several times a day. When it starts getting old, I just bring in another, now used Costco water bottle and do it all over again.
We have several Tervis insulated glasses at home. The lid goes on whichever way it goes on. We drink with straws.
Same here, but in the opposite direction.
Now I’m curious, Sir T-Cups: Among the people you know and interact with in your day-to-day life, would it be trivial for you to find a dozen people who know what a Tervis is? In other words, a lot of people around you know what a Tervis is by that name? For you and those around you, it really IS as common as saying “Kleenex” or “Band-Aid”?
I ask because my own conjecture is that not more than one in 10,000 American adults would know what a “Tervis” is. But I am curious about whether or not the proportion of people who know “Tervis” shoots up dramatically if we limit our people to a certain age range, a certain region/city, certain occupations, etc.
Having had worked at a McDonalds back in ye olden days, no. There is no official lid to cup label orientation policy.
Add me to the list of those who never heard of them.
Never heard of Yeti cups, either.
Label away at all times on any vessel.
I’ve never heard of a Tervis before. It’s round and the lid’s round, right? As long as the lid fits on tightly and keeps the drink from spilling, I don’t give a rat’s ass how the label faces, or whether the damn thing even has a label, or a design, or whatever.
I don’t own a Tervis cup, and had never heard of them before today. However, if I did own one, I’d carefully position the label somewhere between 90 and 180 degrees in order to give the impression that I don’t care which way the label faces.
Quick thought: If the Mad Hatter from Batman drinks out of one, is it called Jervis’ Tervis?
People actually give a shit about this sort of thing?