What people don’t talk enough about the cup trend is that people aren’t even drinking water out of them. The new thing is to gaslight yourself into thinking you’re drinking water by mixing high fructose corn syrup drink mix into their water. It’s chemically different but somehow people think they’re doing their bodies a favor by drinking soda 60oz at a time.
Where are people getting HFCS drink mixes? Are you talking about the sodastream type bottles of mix? I only ever see people with the artificially sweetened tiny squirt bottles of flavoring. Which, healthy or not is up for debate but they’ve gotta be better than 150% of your sugar for the day in liquid form from HFCS/soda (in whatever container).
I think Burt Kreischer is kinda hacky but this comes to mind often when I see huge water bottles:
I mean, that’s hardly new. Crystal light and the like have been around for a good while.
i thought they were sugar-free water flavors
“sugar free water flavors” is just a nice way of saying “artificially sweetened juice”
People fill those Stanley cups with pop?
No, they use artificially sweetened syrups that have “0 calories” to make flavored and colored “water”. Some will violently defend that it is still water because there aren’t any calories. Even though they added all the flavors, colors, and sweeteners, just no carbonation. Basically flat coke zero but in tons of schizophrenic flavor name and neon color combos. It’s a weird world of cope.
Be thankful my comment is the only level of awareness you’ll be about this. Do not look into this deeper, there is nothing good to be found. Forget this and return to your life. This will be your only warning.
Ya know some people just don’t like drinking something “flavorless” 24/7…
While it may not be as “healthy” as drinking just water, it’s like 98-99% water, and as you said, it’s zero calories so it’s far better for you than soda and fruit juice which has a fuckload of sugar/HFCS in it.
It looks like HydroHomies is leaking…
Po tip: Ice makes any water taste better
I’m pretty sure cold things just taste less. Keep that in mind when a beer is advertised as “best” when freezing cold.
Okay. Drink your literal copium.
An ancient secret: Tea.
Mericans be weird.
I like tea, but I can’t see myself drinking like a gallon of hot tea a day, cold brewed is generally bitter.
Imagine thinking you are superior because you said the word tea, as if tea isn’t a famously high profile drink in the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_tea
Seriously as an American, I don’t know a single person who doesn’t drink some type of tea.
Their point is *water is healthy because it doesn’t contain any additives". Then the Brit popped in with the Tea idea and they put far less sugar in their tea, if they put any in.
Us 'Muricans need ten pounds of sugar in everything in order for it to be palatable, so a Sweet Tea and store bought teas are loaded with sugar/HFCS.
Damn, that’s a quality shitpost. Well done
As much as I like Stanley’s thermos’ - I own 3 of them. One is 50+ years old and still has the silvered glass flask inside that is sealed with a real cork, the other 2 have the stainless flask. The glass flask one is very fragile if dropped. The “newer” ones have been beaten like rented mules and still work like new. One fell off the tailgate of my pickup on bounced down a gravel road and I ran the other one over with a disc while doing spring field work. The hot stays hot and the cold stays cold all day.
The old glass model I inherited. The other 2 I bought. The newest one is a bit over 25 years old and cost me $40 new. But I don’t get the $100 cups. I have had an enameled stainless 12oz $10 knockoff for 2 years now and it works very well. It keeps my tea hot while I’m sitting on the ice of a frozen lake and fishing for at nearly an hour at a time.
Don’t Stanley Cups become lead poisoned if damaged? In opposition to almost every single other thermos…
There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.
What? They openly admit it.
The pellet seals the product’s vacuum insulation, and it is not accessible unless the stainless steel barrier comes off — which is possible but “rare"
- Stanley spokesperson
They’re not even good cups…
They’re fine. Stanley has made perfectly decent, tough thermos products for a century. The green coffee thermos has been a staple for decades.
My biggest fear of this craze is that it’ll kill the company when the fad ends and their stock drops and they get bought out by Chinese conglomerate number 8762.
It’s already owned by HAVI, a privately owned Indian conglomerate.
I don’t know why anyone thinka these old American brands are still independent, or even American.
There’s another theory running around that Stanley cups are also growing in popularity due to a demographic focus of Mormons.
It didn’t take long before netizens began pointing to a connection between the popularity of the tumblers and Mormonism in the United States. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are taught to not drink hot beverages, as they believe that “hot drinks are not for the body or belly,” thus avoiding tea or coffee and instead turning to alternative fizzy drinks for caffeine.
To keep them at an approved temperature, the Stanley Quencher’s ability to keep a drink cold for hours makes it a perfect option, thus making it extremely marketable to this particular demographic.
Source [blog]: https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/trends/mormons-stanley-cup-craze/
I believe the “hot beverages” claim is a bit misleading. I’m not a Mormon, but my understanding is they “hot beverages” only applies to coffee and tea. It was interpreted as a medicinal phrase (like how a “cold compress” might refer to a particular medicinal application of cold rags and not any cold rags?). The Mormon Church allows members to drink some cold caffeinated beverages since they are not “hot beverages”. However, I think they weirdly still ban iced coffee despite it being cold…
Anyways, they represent a sizeable 2% of the US population. 6.5 million people who generally abide by these cold/hot beverages principles. So a running theory is they command a decent portion of the thermos market share.
I’m not an expert. I’m just sharing what I’ve heard.
Nalgene bottles were pure BPA, stainless and vacuum insulation are huge upgrades.
Nalgene has been BPA free since 2008, don’t hate on them!
Additionally, the minimal materials and manufacturing process are more environmentally friendly than metal vacuum seal bottles.Lead in vacuum seal bottles is avoidable, if it’s something you’re worried about it’s not hard to get lead free. I also highly doubt anything plastic is better for the environment in the long term, given that no plastic is going to last without degradation for that many years compared to something made of metal. And once that plastic does degrade it’s going straight into a landfill or the environment with all the other microplastics. Maybe optimistically it could be recycled once or twice, but beyond that you get diminishing returns and it’s trash again.
They might technically edge out metal production on one or two measurements, like power used (since you don’t have to smelt plastic), but as a society we have to stop pretending the plastic we use isn’t going to degrade. Plastic is temporary, then it turns into brittle, environmentally poisoning trash. There’s not a good reason to use it for something that can be easily replaced by metal.
Technically, the Nalgene in the picture is the revised Tritan BPA-free design. But your point still stands. BPA or not, the less plastic touches my food and drink, the better.
Tritan plastics are used in labratory environments, I feel like we would have heard something if it was leeching anything. The high usage rate in those environments are what gives me faith in the product.
Are they single use or multi-use in the lab?
Are those Stanley cups, like, the Stanley brand that’s been around forever or another Stanley?
The same Stanley. They still sell those giant green thermoses our fathers and grandfathers used to take half a gallon of stale coffee to the coal mine or steel mill.
Shit, I still use one of those. Keeps coffee hot and secure for the commute.
I still use the one my dad had back in the 80s. It’s my road trip thermos. It’s been beat to shit but it still works.
Wait, I’ve still got a few of those out in the garage I think
The same Stanley and these specific ones recently became insanely trendy.
Bruh you can see the “since 1913” right there in the meme
Kleen kanteen gang rise up!
I keep meaning to get one of those but I have a metal insulated water bottle I already use and is in fine condition. I can’t justify buying a new bottle to brag about how good it is when the whole point is I have one that works for me already and save me throwing away more… One day maybe but I fear I missed that train for my slightly worse bottle that will last my full lifetime already anyways.
Did someone else just watch the SNL “Bug Dumb Cups” sketch?
I tried, but it just seemed cringey. It’s a 30 second joke that got stretched too long.
Agreed that it went on way too long.
I rock a stainless nalgene. Best of both worlds.
Me drinking out of my reused aquafina bottle - “Mmm microplastics” 🤤
Bottle-obsessed weirdos
What? You don’t stan for bottles? You’re not a patriot if you don’t have an assortment of stickers on your rear window that include:
- Jason silhouette
- Calvin pissing on Ford/Chevy
- Bill Murray silhouette
- Punisher
- Glock Protection
- YETI
And coming soon the Stanley logo over a scratched out YETI sticker.
You missed the best parts of his line. The full quote is:
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!"
On the internet, nobody knows you’re not “it”
It’s true though. It WILL happen to you. I’ve been around long enough to see the full cycle over and over. In the 60s when I was kid, everyone was with “it,” now we’re all old f@rts who think those very same 60s values are weird and scary - peace? love? wokefulness? IT’S too horrible to think about!
I think many millennials and zoomers recognize the hypocrisy of the boomers and the damage it’s done. I’m hopeful that we stand in stark contrast to those before us and refuse to falter in our ideals.
I’m a millennial, but what is the hypocrisy you speak of? The world leaders are all armed with nukes and the choice was to either be homeless hippies who can’t feed themselves or cogs in the capitalism machine. Unless everyone is ready to have the revolution right this second, the status quo will always prevail.
Here’s a few examples. Also, you can get a job without selling out entirely. Although, I agree that most people have to make compromises as they grow.
f@rts
You’re allowed to say fart on the internet. You’re even allowed to say fart in real life.
I just said f@rt in real life and now I have three weeks community service. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Glass bottles walk in…
I use a handle bottle of vodka as my water bottle. I haven’t gotten in trouble yet.
