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Don’t tell me it’s not fun to get your soda served in a soup container or a hazelnut latte served in a… can of Nutella? Okay, just kidding. This sounds like sheer torture, and who even does this? I mean, big round of applause for business owners who take their creativity to a whole new level, but there should be boundaries of common sense and functionality.
Well, if you've ever had your drink served in a ludicrous container and dreamed of having a good old cup instead, this online community is for you. The “We Want Cups” subreddit is a safe place to share our frustration by showcasing drinks that should have (but unfortunately, haven’t) been served in cups.
And oh boy, the whole collection is some painfully funny entertainment that will make you reevaluate your boring ceramic morning cuppa with a stupid scribble on it, because as you see, it always can get much worse.
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#1
Cocktail In A Bag. The Color Didn’t Help
#2
Jello Shots Being Served Out Of Hard-Boiled Eggs
#3
Portobello Mushroom Latte, Me
Across America and Europe, bars and restaurants are following a relatively new trend of serving beverages in very creative containers. Many business owners believe that these creative and kooky vessels not only make the drinks more fun to sip, but bring that wow factor that sets them apart from their nextdoor competitors.
But no matter the presentation of your beloved iced tea, at the end of the day, it’s the inside that counts. Especially when Americans have very specific preferences about their beverages, with some of us avoiding bottled water at all costs, and others opting for convenience.
#4
I Love It When My Drink Is In A Baby Doll Head
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Reminds me of the "chilled monkey brains" in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Always freaked me out as a kid
#5
This Cocktail Comes In An Ash Tray With A "Chocolate Cigar" Straw...
#6
A Cocktail In Two Parts. Equally Stupid
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
What the actual hell. This would pair nicely with the spaghetti served in a dresser that I saw on an old post 😃
Recently, a survey from Statista found what beverages people in the US consume the most, and on which ones they give a hard pass. The most commonly consumed beverage is bottled water, which makes up 24.8%. Turn out, the average American consumer drank roughly 40 gallons of bottled water in 2018 alone, so you can imagine the number soared during the pandemic when everyone stayed at home.
The second most consumed beverage is carbonated soda drinks, which make up 21.9% of the consumed beverages. The third most popular drink in America is coffee, with 12.6% consumption share.
#7
Tidepods Now With Booze
#8
A Cup Of Milk
#9
Hot Coffee... Too Hot To Hold The Bowl. We Want Cups!! (Or At Least A Friggin Handle)
On the other end of the scale, we have energy drinks, value added water and spirits that are the least favorite beverages among Americans. Although when it comes to spirits, the pandemic has clearly put them back in the spotlight with home cocktail culture soaring. According to the research firm Nielsen, sales of spirits at the end of March climbed 75% compared to the same period last year.
#10
Here's One You Can't Even Set Down
#11
Hot Chocolate In A Waffle Cone
#12
Cursed Cocktail
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago
I mean, to be fair here, it IS alcohol, so it's highly unlikely to be spreading anything. But still; EW!
tiari 3 years ago
It's only wine-based, so you dont even have that comfort.
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AspieGirl88 3 years ago
Ech ... how many people’s backsides have been sitting in there before they decided to use that as a drinking trough?! 🤮
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Best thing about covid - this is not considered a good idea anymore. (I hope... )
Barbara Kronschnabel 3 years ago
Let me guess. This photo was taken in Florida just last week?
Suzanne Clark 3 years ago
Well THAT looks like a pandemic waiting to happen...oh wait, we already have one of those, never mind.
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
This is Sangria, a cheap Spanish red wine and Mallorca beach party staple. Call yourself lucky there at least isn't a chick in a bikini standing in your drink
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
You know it has to have alcohol in it that is the only way to get people to drink out of a trough.
Tassenküchlein168 3 years ago
Plasticizers, spit of a crowd and a hint of Sangria. Cheers! *shutters*
Dan Buczynski 3 years ago
This would be a hard pass BEFORE a global pandemic ruined our collective lives.
#13
This Baby Bottle Of Creamer
#14
A Shoe? You've Officially Carried It Too Far Biddy
#15
A Margarita Served In An Iv Bag With A Syringe Full Of Jello Shot
#16
Not Even Sure How To Drink Out Of This Thing? Maybe A Straw?
#17
I Bring You... The Chambong
#18
Just Unscrew This Every Time You Want To Drink
#19
Another Bathtub, But With A Ducky
#20
You Knew This Was Coming
#21
My Mojito Just Arrived In A Plastic Bag. In A Small Trolley. Smh
#22
Trashy Drink
#23
It Must Be Italian!!!
#24
‘For Here Or To Go’
#25
Thought They’d Run Out Of Cups... Nope, This Is The Drinking Glass
Liezzzewies 3 years ago
At least this one’s easy to clean. All the other ‘cups’ are hygienic disasters to me.. 🤢
#26
Hmm
#27
A Nice Chipped Shell To Cut Your Lips With The Cocktail
#28
Just Found This Sub. Had This Crazy Thing In Toronto
#29
Cocktail In A Garden Pot
#30
I Was Served My Drink In A Leather Bag
#31
I Guess There Is Technically A Glass, The Drink Just Isn’t In It
#32
Only Wanted Some Extra Ice For My Drink
#33
A Friend Ordered A Cocktail And Got It In A Pouch
#34
Saw A Friend Post This Drink In A Spam Container And Was Appalled
#35
I Mean, Come On Man. This Is Getting Out Of Hand
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
We used to drink saki out of wooden boxes very much like this, but smaller.
#37
New Season, Still Asking For Cups
#38
Thought This Cocktail Was A Sauce For My Food At First
#39
$12 Gin & Tonic, 98% Tonic. Straw Cut With A Knife Because Apparently I Don’t Deserve A Whole Straw
#40
I See Your Bucket... And I Raise You... A Bucket!
#41
Thanks, I Hate Milk Cube
#42
Rose Latte At A Toilet-Themed Cafe In Seoul
#43
Those Aren't Chopsticks, They're Straws
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Pretty! I don't think I'd like to drink out of this, but I do admire the aesthetic.
#44
Another Bathtub, Spooky Edition
#45
High Heel = High Class
#46
How Did They Even Pour Into This
#47
“Er Margarita” Served In An Iv Bag
Getthepopcornout 3 years ago
At least the other one LOOKED like and IV bag, this is just a food freezer bag 🙈🙈
#48
Lemonade In A Lightbulb?
#49
Why Using A Cup When You Can Drink From A (Plastic) Rock?
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What do you think ?
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
All of these "trendy" or whatever these pretentious places are trying to be...just stop. Please, just use a reguler glass that CAN BE CLEANED properly.Some of these...Theres no good way to actually CLEAN them well. And what does the leather bags and bell peppers make the drink taste like? Sweet baby jesus on a bumpy bike...
NsG 3 years ago (edited)
The ones inside lemon rinds, acovado skin and waffles aren't *too* bad. Assuming the insides of the fruit have been used in normal food preparation and not just hollowed out to make a drink, it's almost acceptable upcycling! But the rest are just ludicrous, surely they can't be effectively cleaned, and in what world is a plastic bag more environmentally friendly than a paper cup?!
Destiney Haddox 3 years ago
Yeah I like the idea of using a lemon, orange, or other food item that would normally be thrown away! But, yeah everything else is insane.
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygienic.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
With several of these I was wondering if you knew in advance what you would get?! If I knew and still ordered it - my problem. If I had no chance knowing this in advance and, for example, my coffee came in a mushroom I would definitely refuse to accept that. Some choices were nice (like the hot chocolate in the waffle) but others were downright disgusting...
Olamide Felix 3 years ago (edited)
Thought the same. Wish they just used good old reusable glass/steel.
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suvani subba 3 years ago
too much use of plastic when the restro can easily serve it in metal or glass utensils. From aesthetic to environment wise, these are and should be big NO!
John Baker 3 years ago
And to think I remember when it was considered "exotic" to serve pina coladas in a coconut shell. ;-)
John Baker 3 years ago
Would you like that in a bag, a mushroom or a nautilus shell? ;-)
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
The ones that strike me as the worst ones are those served in containers that aren't made from food grade materials. That's not remotely safe. How exactly are you washing and sterilizing the inside of a leather pouch? (And if you're just throwing them away after one customer, I have additional issues.)
Radek Suski 3 years ago
There was an ad between this posts and I was like: they serve food in denims. Ok. Until I realised it wasn’t part of the list. It’s how crazy those are
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygenic.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
A few of these are reasonable ideas, but the obsession with being "different" has made me feel like I need to specify a glass with any drink I order in future, just in case!
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
Next do the restaurants that serve food in and on pieces that surpass these receptacles. Many of them specialize in molecular gastronomy. http://vespertine.la/
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Worse than any of these was the exclusive gay bar where beautiful young men were reverse-cathetered with wine and served it urethrally like living botas.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I'm tending toward all of these being fake. You know where the downvote is.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
All of these "trendy" or whatever these pretentious places are trying to be...just stop. Please, just use a reguler glass that CAN BE CLEANED properly.Some of these...Theres no good way to actually CLEAN them well. And what does the leather bags and bell peppers make the drink taste like? Sweet baby jesus on a bumpy bike...
NsG 3 years ago (edited)
The ones inside lemon rinds, acovado skin and waffles aren't *too* bad. Assuming the insides of the fruit have been used in normal food preparation and not just hollowed out to make a drink, it's almost acceptable upcycling! But the rest are just ludicrous, surely they can't be effectively cleaned, and in what world is a plastic bag more environmentally friendly than a paper cup?!
Destiney Haddox 3 years ago
Yeah I like the idea of using a lemon, orange, or other food item that would normally be thrown away! But, yeah everything else is insane.
Load More Replies... Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygienic.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
With several of these I was wondering if you knew in advance what you would get?! If I knew and still ordered it - my problem. If I had no chance knowing this in advance and, for example, my coffee came in a mushroom I would definitely refuse to accept that. Some choices were nice (like the hot chocolate in the waffle) but others were downright disgusting...
Olamide Felix 3 years ago (edited)
Thought the same. Wish they just used good old reusable glass/steel.
Load More Replies... suvani subba 3 years ago
too much use of plastic when the restro can easily serve it in metal or glass utensils. From aesthetic to environment wise, these are and should be big NO!
John Baker 3 years ago
And to think I remember when it was considered "exotic" to serve pina coladas in a coconut shell. ;-)
John Baker 3 years ago
Would you like that in a bag, a mushroom or a nautilus shell? ;-)
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
The ones that strike me as the worst ones are those served in containers that aren't made from food grade materials. That's not remotely safe. How exactly are you washing and sterilizing the inside of a leather pouch? (And if you're just throwing them away after one customer, I have additional issues.)
Radek Suski 3 years ago
There was an ad between this posts and I was like: they serve food in denims. Ok. Until I realised it wasn’t part of the list. It’s how crazy those are
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygenic.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
A few of these are reasonable ideas, but the obsession with being "different" has made me feel like I need to specify a glass with any drink I order in future, just in case!
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago (edited)
Next do the restaurants that serve food in and on pieces that surpass these receptacles. Many of them specialize in molecular gastronomy. http://vespertine.la/
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Worse than any of these was the exclusive gay bar where beautiful young men were reverse-cathetered with wine and served it urethrally like living botas.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I'm tending toward all of these being fake. You know where the downvote is.
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