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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Cocktail In A Bag. The Color Didn’t Help
Jello Shots Being Served Out Of Hard-Boiled Eggs
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.
I Love It When My Drink Is In A Baby Doll Head
Reminds me of the "chilled monkey brains" in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Always freaked me out as a kid
This Cocktail Comes In An Ash Tray With A "Chocolate Cigar" Straw...
A Cocktail In Two Parts. Equally Stupid
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.
Tidepods Now With Booze
A Cup Of Milk
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.
Here's One You Can't Even Set Down
Hot Chocolate In A Waffle Cone
Cursed Cocktail
This Baby Bottle Of Creamer
A Shoe? You've Officially Carried It Too Far Biddy
A Margarita Served In An Iv Bag With A Syringe Full Of Jello Shot
Not Even Sure How To Drink Out Of This Thing? Maybe A Straw?
I Bring You... The Chambong
Just Unscrew This Every Time You Want To Drink
Another Bathtub, But With A Ducky
You Knew This Was Coming
My Mojito Just Arrived In A Plastic Bag. In A Small Trolley. Smh
Trashy Drink
It Must Be Italian!!!
‘For Here Or To Go’
Thought They’d Run Out Of Cups... Nope, This Is The Drinking Glass
At least this one’s easy to clean. All the other ‘cups’ are hygienic disasters to me.. 🤢
Hmm
A Nice Chipped Shell To Cut Your Lips With The Cocktail
Just Found This Sub. Had This Crazy Thing In Toronto
Cocktail In A Garden Pot
I Was Served My Drink In A Leather Bag
I Guess There Is Technically A Glass, The Drink Just Isn’t In It
Only Wanted Some Extra Ice For My Drink
A Friend Ordered A Cocktail And Got It In A Pouch
Saw A Friend Post This Drink In A Spam Container And Was Appalled
I Mean, Come On Man. This Is Getting Out Of Hand
We used to drink saki out of wooden boxes very much like this, but smaller.
New Season, Still Asking For Cups
Thought This Cocktail Was A Sauce For My Food At First
$12 Gin & Tonic, 98% Tonic. Straw Cut With A Knife Because Apparently I Don’t Deserve A Whole Straw
I See Your Bucket... And I Raise You... A Bucket!
Thanks, I Hate Milk Cube
Rose Latte At A Toilet-Themed Cafe In Seoul
Those Aren't Chopsticks, They're Straws
Pretty! I don't think I'd like to drink out of this, but I do admire the aesthetic.
Another Bathtub, Spooky Edition
High Heel = High Class
How Did They Even Pour Into This
“Er Margarita” Served In An Iv Bag
At least the other one LOOKED like and IV bag, this is just a food freezer bag 🙈🙈
Lemonade In A Lightbulb?
Why Using A Cup When You Can Drink From A (Plastic) Rock?
Our Cocktails Were Served In Inverted And Out Of Shape Fish Tanks
Drink In A Bell. Hmss, Bristol UK
Liverpool Bar Serves Drinks In Model Bins....
Pumpkins For Your Pumpkin Beer!
I don't see a problem here, particularly if the innards are used in making pumpkin beer
Three Sips £16, Barts Chelsea
We Want Cupzzzzz!!!
This Woman’s Drink Is In A Candlestick
Thanks, I Hate It
They Said This Was To Be More Environmentally Conscious. Wouldn't, I Don't Know, Paper Cups Be Better?!
My Cocktail Came In A Condiment Jar Of Some Sort
Good Thing My Drink Is Microwave Safe
Thin Chocolate Rabbit Filled With Milk + A Child's Sweaty Hand.. Wcgw?
This actually seems pretty nice. A cold drink is served in that, so the chocolate won't melt. And it's an Easter promo.
Found This On Facebook
Again, reusable, cleanable, as long as you aren't doing shots in a science lab where there might be a mix up I don't see a problem
This Cost Me £14 In Mayfair, London. I Think It's A Christmas Ornament. The Bird Arrived In A Decorative Bird Cage. The Stand Is Made Of Painted Ice Lolly Sticks And Pompoms. Every Time I Drank From It, I Was Worried I'd Knock It Over
Drinking From A Trolley For Some Reason
My Dad In Front Of His Bucket Of Margarita
I Get That It’s *technically* A Ceramic Cup, But Dear God Something About Drinking Out Of A Shoe
Cocktail Served In A Large Shell
Tequila In Lemon Carcass
Drink In A Bong.. I Forgot The Restaurant But It Was In Downtown Minneapolis
A Cocktail At A New Hipster Bar
I don't see a problem with this. Its stable, its easy to clean and it is reusable.
Yeah, Plastic Bag Is The New Cup
This Cafe Serves A 'Nutella Latte' In The Original Container If There's Only Enough Left For One Serving. (Of Course They Ask Beforehand If You Want It In The Bottle Or Regular Cup. Yum Melted Plastic)
Ordered A Pepsi To Go. Came Out In A Soup Bowl
Didn’t Know What To Expect W A “Bacardi Swizzle Bucket”
Does This Count?
Back In Em Olden Days This Is How They Bought Milk In Sochi, Russia
But Is It Hot Or Iced?
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...
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?!
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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This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygienic.
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...
Thought the same. Wish they just used good old reusable glass/steel.
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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!
And to think I remember when it was considered "exotic" to serve pina coladas in a coconut shell. ;-)
Would you like that in a bag, a mushroom or a nautilus shell? ;-)
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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.)
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
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygenic.
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!
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/
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.
I'm tending toward all of these being fake. You know where the downvote is.
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...
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?!
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... This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygienic.
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...
Thought the same. Wish they just used good old reusable glass/steel.
Load More Replies... 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!
And to think I remember when it was considered "exotic" to serve pina coladas in a coconut shell. ;-)
Would you like that in a bag, a mushroom or a nautilus shell? ;-)
Load More Replies... 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.)
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
This is what you get in a world of influencers. Everything is made to be instagram worthy, not practical or hygenic.
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!
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/
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.
I'm tending toward all of these being fake. You know where the downvote is.
