Reasons for opaque drinking glasses with dark colored interiors?
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Reasons for opaque drinking glasses with dark colored interiors?
What are some good reasons for opaque drinking glasses with dark colored interiors? I mean, you can't see if there's anything in your semi-transparent liquids as easily even under good lighting conditions. Just one of the many questions about life.
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Angua wrote:Changes the taste?
I guess if it affects soda or other beverages that makes sense.
EDIT: I mean it makes sense either way, but I was thinking more along the lines of coffee cup sort of situations.
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The main reason is aesthetics. People like the way they look.
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TBH I just wanted an excuse to post an interesting study. I didn't think that changing the taste was the actual reason 

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And there is evidence that what you are hearing can change the way foods taste.
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gd1 wrote:EDIT: I mean it makes sense either way, but I was thinking more along the lines of coffee cup sort of situations.
As someone who has done a lot of washing up by hand in a hard water area I can tell you one good reason for them - they save a lot of time which would otherwise be spent trying to scrub off coffee/tea stains with acid and abrasives.
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Agreed with aesthetics.
Tradition may be a factor. Widespread and affordable glass is a relatively new advancement relative to the span of human civilization using drinking vessels, and plenty of traditions pre-date use of glass.
For beer specifically, opaque vessels can protect beer from getting light-struck (aka skunked). Brewers and beer drinkers have been aware of the problem of beer being exposed to sunlight for hundreds of years (Corona has forgotten
), even if they didn't understand the chemical reactions occuring. Therefore many beer-drinking traditions/cultures continued to favor opaque beer vessels over clear glass, long after glass use became widespread. EDIT: Remember prior to modern sanitation and drinking water advancements in the mid to late 1800s, people drank beer instead of water and those beer traditions were and still are deeply ingrained in society.
Tradition may be a factor. Widespread and affordable glass is a relatively new advancement relative to the span of human civilization using drinking vessels, and plenty of traditions pre-date use of glass.
For beer specifically, opaque vessels can protect beer from getting light-struck (aka skunked). Brewers and beer drinkers have been aware of the problem of beer being exposed to sunlight for hundreds of years (Corona has forgotten

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