Was wondering if the NHL was popping off when I started reading that people were going crazy for the Stanley Cup.

People are atomised to hell and back and the most accessible sense of belonging one can find is consumer identity. I don't know that young girls are in any way special in this. With boys it's primarily video games. Adults are not that much different.

Schools allow these so it's a status symbol of wealth. Yet another way to differentiate the "popular" (rich) kids from the "unpopular" (poor) kids

Capitalism inserts itself into the process of identity creation to create new feelings of lacking in its consumers. More “socialization” means more opportunities for “earned media” which makes people feel like they need to have The Thing.

Back in my day, if you didn't have a Nalgene you were a nobody

Basically they did Sneaker Culture for the things. Limited edition "drops", artificial scarcity, a big influencer campaign on TikTok and Instagram that pushed collecting them. Prior to that the only people who bought Stanleys were hikers and preppers who kept complaining about them not being as sturdy as they used to be.

It's branded and expensive, therefore it's a status symbol

These are for putting in car cup holders. Many Americans commute 2+ hours per day. Their entertainment while driving is radio and drinking beverages.

It’s a whole thing. Instead of refreshing a cup throughout the day or getting new beverages as you’re thirsty, you simply fill up one cup at the beginning of the day and carry it around everywhere you go. Some people do it because they have a hyper specific (read: hyper branded) preferred beverage. Some people do it because they read an article that told them that if they didn’t drink 12 gallons of water a day that their asshole would fall out (they don’t trust their kidneys). Some people carry around several cups: one for caffeination, one for hydration, one for taste, etc. A lot of people just carry their caffeinated coffee milkshakes around.

In America, drinks that taste better than water are so expensive that we have to make them at home and carry them around in big jugs

Being very thirsty and urinating often are common diabetes symptoms. In people who have diabetes, extra sugar — which also is called glucose — builds up in the blood. This forces the kidneys to work overtime to filter and absorb the extra sugar. When the kidneys can't keep up, extra sugar goes into the urine.

Honestly their entire organizational structure seems to be designed at acheiving the swift enactment of Greater Deseret the second Balkanization really takes hold.

Apparently the “authentic” Stanley cups contained lead lol. It would be funny if the Chinese knockoffs were safer

One small thing I noticed driving across the US, they have signs about drunk driving everywhere, but Utah was the only state I saw with public road signs about driving drowsy instead.

I knew they were popular but ffs

The product, Stanley's most successful item among female customers, has propelled Stanley's annual sales from US$70 million in 2019 to $750 million in 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_bottle

I assume you're in Europe, I think people like them in the states because they fit into car cupholders, they are massive and well insulated. Other types of insulated bottles are popular but I don't know any major brand with such a volume that fits into the car cupholder.

Maybe the cup doubles as fancy sex toy ?

Well according to the Wikipedia:

Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, "This is the right place, drive on." Brigham Young is said to have seen the area in a vision before the wagon train's arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement.

There were several tribes in the area, but at least from the accounts I've heard before they wanted to avoid a place already settled so at least that maybe was cool, many settlers didn't care who was there. Since there were people already in the area for at least hundreds of years there was probably a good reason there wasn't a settlement there lol.

because they got thrown out of Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, etc

Crackers and salt, name a better combo

American brainpan is 1/3 hamburger grease, 1/3 advertising, and 1/3 fossil fuel

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It was these water influencers on TikTok, there is a whole scene of middle aged cracker ladies that pump sugar free flavored syrups into their water, they make their own recipes and stuff. Not my thing but whatever. Anyway a bunch of them use Stanley cups probably because Stanley paid the influencers.

A lot of coffee shops will fill up your personal mug, one place I go I have seen them putting drip coffee into a Stanley mug just the other day. I heard Starbucks also decided to allow it again at all locations but I didn't see that directly. Plenty of places did before the pandemic but stopped. Or people will buy the fancy latte and pour it into their cup themselves, I've seen that too where I'm at.