"You're more than just plastic, you're more than amazing, you're more than fantastic," croons Toby Keith in his 2011 hit "Red Solo Cup," a song that Robert Leo Hulseman surely loved. The inventor ...

From tailgates to church cookouts to keg parties to backyard birthday celebrations, the red Solo cup is ubiquitous. The cup appears in so many separate spheres of social situations with such ease that ...

Sixty percent of Solo party cup sales are for the red variety, and red has been Solo’s best-selling color since the beginning. There are many theories as to why. Kim Healy, ...

And Solo cups got grips in 2004 and a square shape in 2009—a designed change intended to, in the company’s words, ensure “a more comfortable and reliable hold.” ...

The red Solo cup — a keg party staple for decades — has switched from a round to a square bottom (see photo above), and there ...

So the next time you’re at a party and find yourself holding a red Solo cup, pour a bit of your drink out for Hulseman. There’s no better way to honor the memory of the man who helped make the ...

Hulseman, 84, worked for Solo — the company his father started – for almost 60 years. He invented the Red Solo Cup and the Traveller Lid , according to his obituary, before becoming the ...