Chick-fil-A customers notice their drinks come in paper cups, sparking Styrofoam debate

Some Reddit users are calling retired a beloved fast-food chain over a alteration successful the cups for their beverages.

A idiosyncratic connected the Chick-fil-A forum connected Reddit posted a photograph of a insubstantial cupful successful beforehand of a takeout bag.

"I'm good with the fries change, but taking distant the Styrofoam cup? This feels gross," says the rubric of the post.

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The station garnered hundreds of reactions, with customers weighing successful connected the Styrofoam vs. insubstantial cupful debate.

Controversy brews arsenic Chick-fil-A transitions from Styrofoam to insubstantial cups successful immoderate locations, according to customers connected Reddit. (Reuters/Rashid Umar Abbasi)

"CFA usually uses Styrofoam cups unless determination is simply a section oregon authorities instrumentality that prohibits them from doing so," wrote 1 user. 

"Styrofoam bans are getting progressively much common."

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Another idiosyncratic commented, "The insubstantial cupful sucks but thing worse than the insubstantial straws."

Said a antithetic Redditor, "I recognize if it's amended for the environment. I conscionable reeaaallly privation we could find a akin alternative, due to the fact that Styrofoam truly does support that crystal from melting astir arsenic fast."

Reddit users explicit vexation arsenic immoderate Chick-fil-A locations wantonness their signature Styrofoam cups. (iStock)

One idiosyncratic wrote, "I personally dislike the Styrofoam cups. Whenever I person them, I wonderment if a escaped tiny portion of Styrofoam is floating astir successful my drink."

"If it bothers you truthful much, you tin ever support a Yeti mug successful your car and transportation your portion to that."

"Honestly, this is 1 elevation I truly don't attraction to dice on. If it bothers you truthful much, you tin ever support a Yeti mug successful your car and transportation your drink to that," advised 1 user.

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Another Redditor said the Styrofoam cups "suck" and wished Chick-fil-A would "switch nationwide."

One idiosyncratic agreed, writing, "Styrofoam is simply a overmuch amended worldly for cups. It's insulated truthful your manus doesn't get acold and bedewed portion holding it."

Some Reddit users suggested the Styrofoam cups are amended for keeping drinks colder for longer, portion others said they're atrocious for the environment. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/GettyImages)

"I'm shocked that radical would miss the Styrofoam cup," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 

"Do you like eating plastic[?]" the idiosyncratic added. 

One lawsuit wrote, "They conscionable made this alteration astatine my CFA successful Virginia. I did a treble take."

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"Styrofoam isn't biodegradable, truthful the cups from Chick-fil-A you got arsenic a kid, well, they're inactive sitting there! Not going anywhere, conscionable piling up much and more," commented a Redditor.

Styrofoam cups are made from polystyrene. Twelve states person banned polystyrene foam, which whitethorn beryllium the crushed for the power to insubstantial cups.

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Washington, D.C., Maine, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Colorado, Virginia, Delaware, Oregon, Rhode Island, California and Washington each person bans on polystyrene foam.