It's a question of construction
Am I alone in being particular about the kinds of tumblers I like to drink out of? Must be glass. Anything else is tumbler blasphemy. Has to have a thick, solid base. The sides should be straight--perpendicular to the base--not curved or angled. And no fancy designs or etching or patterns or facets. Smooth, round. Not square. And the sides should be thick; not as thick as the base, but substantial. Not to make them resistant to breaking (structural strength is only a secondary consideration), but to make the clink of the glass more resonant. And the clink is important: not high-pitched; that sounds too fragile for a tumbler. I'd say the sound when you toast another glass should be roughly baritone. And resonant. There should be a deep, solid, clink when you drop ice cubes in from just above the rim.
Bars seem to almost always have the right kind of tumblers, but I'll be damned if I can find a store that sells them. And there's no way I'm going to buy them online without being able to see and hold them first.
Maybe I'm too picky about my tumblers.
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