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[Leunam]

I know this is often quoted as mind-blowing, but there is no way it is the intended use of the cup!

It's a by-product of how the cup is made: taking a flat sheet and folding it up into this shape. I really doubt it was intended to work that way from the beginning, but it's pretty neat that it does.

 

[strobogo]

I don't think it's really that precise. When I first noticed they were scrunched, my first instinct was to just fan them out bit by bit while having the cup rotate in my hand. After a few of them, you get used to how much pull they can take and it takes a just few seconds to prep a cup before pooling the ketchup.



Doesn't take that long. Plus, the footprint of one cup holding almost 3 times as much as it should is smaller than finding space for 3 individual cups.

Where are you eating that you need to "find space" for 3 delightfully cute and tiny paper cups?

 

[3phemeral]

Where are you eating that you need to "find space" for 3 delightfully cute and tiny paper cups?

My coworkers and I used to head out to In-N-Out for lunch, and if I recall correctly (I'm no longer in California), those trays are pretty small when you stack a drink, two hamburgers, and animal-style fries on them. Space is limited, and with the amount of fries you get, one cup isn't enough; however, there's not enough space for 3 individual cups. Spreading out a single cup allows the widened rim to take advantage of vertical space, while allowing the base to fit snugly between more cramped areas. Plus, no one ever wants to ask everyone else to get up out of the booth just so you can get another cup of ketchup, regardless of how relatively harmless it would actually be. Sometimes you just have to choose how much time you're willing to spend on what, and lunch would end up pretty short once everyone met up, waited in a long lunch line, and picked up their orders.

I don't recall having to do this anywhere else as I've grown accustomed to not having ketchup on my fries, but In-N-Out fries remind of of potato chips, so they deserve a copious drenching of ketchup and pepper.

 

[Lord Panda]

I was reading the North Korean vs South Korea thread and holy crap at the SBX-1:

It's a giant massive radar that can travel on water.

This thing is probably how the world will end.

How would they defend that thing against concentrated missile strikes? Sheer fact that it can operate at super long range? It must have an amazing ECM suite as well.

 

[Jaeyden]

I know this is often quoted as mind-blowing, but there is no way it is the intended use of the cup!

It sounds cool in practise, until you actually try it at a fast food joint, realizing how much of an idiot you are fiddling with a stupid paper cup for 30 seconds. You could have filled a dozen cups in half the time.

A trick kind of like this also works for those annoying tiny paper cups at the office water cooler. Just place it over your mouth and blow. It will inflate the sides out while keeping the rim in place and your tiny little pleated paper cup will now hold three times as much water.

 

[agrajag]

How would they defend that thing against concentrated missile strikes? Sheer fact that it can operate at super long range? It must have an amazing ECM suite as well.

It has a cloaking device