• bluewing
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    9 months ago

    As much as I like Stanley’s thermos’ - I own 3 of them. One is 50+ years old and still has the silvered glass flask inside that is sealed with a real cork, the other 2 have the stainless flask. The glass flask one is very fragile if dropped. The “newer” ones have been beaten like rented mules and still work like new. One fell off the tailgate of my pickup on bounced down a gravel road and I ran the other one over with a disc while doing spring field work. The hot stays hot and the cold stays cold all day.

    The old glass model I inherited. The other 2 I bought. The newest one is a bit over 25 years old and cost me $40 new. But I don’t get the $100 cups. I have had an enameled stainless 12oz $10 knockoff for 2 years now and it works very well. It keeps my tea hot while I’m sitting on the ice of a frozen lake and fishing for at nearly an hour at a time.

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      9 months ago

      Don’t Stanley Cups become lead poisoned if damaged? In opposition to almost every single other thermos…

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        9 months ago

        There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.