TABOR, S.D. (AP) — It’s red. It’s soft plastic. And it probably contains your favorite beverage.
\n\nA Dallas Cowboys’ fan tosses a ping-pong ball towards a red plastic cup in a game of beer pong during a tailgate party before an NFL football game at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
\n\nThe red Solo cup belongs on any list of the country’s most distinctly American objects, but it’s actually more than a single object. It is a symbol of the American psyche — a country that loves a good party, summertime barbecues, kegged beer, tailgating and above all, friendship and community.
\n\nThe red Solo cup is the receptacle for each of these proud traditions. It also serves as a foundation for beer pong and functions as a vessel for contraband public drinks. It works as a spittoon and a reusable household cup that survives countless top-rack cycles through the dishwasher. Sharpie name inscriptions are its universal language, along with condensation formed by an ice-cold drink.
\n\nIts backdrops include campgrounds, block parties, parks, tailgates, keggers and county fairs.
\n\nIt’s also part of the story of capitalism in 20th-century America. The Chicago-based Solo Company…
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