Is there any hygienic basis for the use of cups, is it just aesthetics? Why not just drink from the container?!
Answers: If you drink from the container, and don't finish the entire container, your saliva remains and contaminates whatever it is you are drinking. If it's milk, it can spoil. If something else, you easily share your bacteria. So it is hygienic, as well as looks better with less opportunity to dribble.
Ditto Merrybod.The use of cups allows every one to partake of the prepared beverage without transmitting dna or germs.
agree there but if you are gonna drink all the carton wash it first...you never know who has touched it before you've picked it up.