Well, maybe not everything, but for the most part I think the above statement holds true. Take for example orange juice. Put it in a plastic cup that you got in 7th grade at pizza hut OR put it in a nice crystal clear tall glass. Which is more appealing? I’m thinking there is a hierarchy for liquid containers. Something along the lines of (from worst to best):
- Triangular paper dixie cups
- Paper dixie cups
- Styrofoam cups
- Disposable plastic cups
- Tupperware plastic cups
- Those free plastic cups (think Pizza Hut with Nickelodeon characters, etc)
- Then we have the assortment of glassware that takes the cake
Perhaps this is some sort of revelation. Judging from the fact that presentation is common knowledge amongst the restaurant community, I’d say I’m just full of crap.
While I would normally agree that you’re 100% full of crap, I will also have to say that milk tastes infinitely better out of a glass rather than a cup. So now you’re just 99% full of crap.
I would say most things taste better when consumed from a glass.
There are a couple of ways of looking at it.
Drinking OJ in a glass is more appealing that drinking it from
a Dixie cup. When it is in a glass it look refreshing. When drinking
it in a Dixie cup one worries about whether the paper will fall
apart while drinking. If you have more than one serving then paper
start to thin away. The same would apply to beer or wine it looks
better and tastes better in a glass. That is, taste has a
psychological dimension.
If you drink say OJ from a brand new plastic cup you will be initially
consuming plasticizers which could alter the taste slightly. The
plasticizers eventually wash away as they are a plastic byproduct.
When you drink the OJ from say a brand new glass you have to
contend with a tiny bit of silica gel which washes away quickly.
How a beverage is presented has to do with the intrinsic value
that one associates with a beverage. Restaurants don’t serve wine
in plastic cups as it would degrade their image and status. If the restaurant
is going cheap on the glasses it begs one to ask if they aren’t
going cheap on the other stuff.
There is also the food safety perspective. Restaurants will serve
stuff in glasses if the risk of them falling and breaking is
minimal. At Pizzahut and fast food places, families are always spilling
stuff on the table and the floor. If the drink is in a plastic cup it
will only stain the carpet and there is no risk of something cutting
themselves.
Another dimension is the beverage experience, that is, what need
is being satified by consuming the drink. We drink stuff from paper,
and stryofoam glasses for convenience and because we will discard
the container when we are done consumption. Drinking stuff in a plastic
cup or glass we will likely use it over and over again.
Chris, I think you spent way too much time thinking about this post. Bored much? I know I was when I wrote this.
It was a quiet/slow day. Yah, I was kinda bored. In retrospect, I surprised how much I wrote.
id just like to be the first to point out that while he says “from best to worst” the list obviously goes from worst to best
!)(%WEMFL stupid computer losers realizing they are wrong and going back and fixing it without mention of an edit..
Too late. I fixed it already! AHHAHAHAHHA
you try so hard…
but i still win
Does anyone feel the same way about this? :
Does drinking juice out of a small colorful cup make you feel younger? When I drink my orange juice out of my small blue cup I got when i was little, it makes me feel younger…I’m going to drink out of these cups when I’m like…50…I don’t ever want to feel old…
I know what you mean, Andrew, I don’t ever want to feel old either, but you know what? I already do. I’m like… going to be 50 in a few months. Probably have another 30, 40 years, tops. Or I could go out with a fucking coronary tomorrow. Damn, it sucks being mortal. If anyone reading this is a vampire, I’m ready, willing, and able to be turned into a blood sucking undead creature of the night. I think I’d make a great vampire. I’d only prey on evil people. Help keep the crime rate down. Blood, mmmmmm….. tasty…..
Mmmmmmmmmm blood. I killed off all the vampires in the Baltimore area a few years ago. I think you’re screwed unless a new pack has emerged from the darkness. Oooh I feel so spooky saying “emerged from the darkness.”