Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
I remember paper straws from my childhood. 1960s. Kind of a wax paper straw. We thought plastic straws were so much better when they came out.
Never was one to use a straw until people started whining about them, now I make sure to use at least one every time I buy food.
Ronnie
More and more in Austin. They suck. Ha
I am old . so I remember paper straws when they first came out,, but was changed to plastic ...
Um, don't leave the straw in the drink for a few hours? Nothing new here I remember paper straws as a kid too. First world problem.
We got a new sandwich shop over in a Monett (MO for the non SWMO crowd) and they started up with paper straws. They didn’t last long after all the griping. We got plastic after that.
Was in Montreal yesterday and had to drink my A&W through one. No thanks.
I don't mind old school paper, but the idea of saving the world is just a control thing.
Saw a piece a while back where a woman actually died when her stainless steel Eco-straw stabbed her when she fell.
Anyone recall when they started perforating straw wrappers so you couldn't launch them into your sibling's eye?
I remember the paper straws , good for about 10 minutes before they started getting soggy .
Chinese ships apparently dump tons of plastic and other garbage over the side while at sea. Kinda doubt that paper straws are going to make up for all that, but try telling that to the Kali Kookybirds.
On a positive note, the Kraft process that produces paper, including presumably straws, also produces DMSO, which you can put on those jaw muscles you strain trying to suck your soda pop through them.
I remember when drinks came in re-useable glass containers (even long neck beer bottles) and if you got thirsty you drank out of water jug or a water hose. I made a lot of money picking up soda bottles (mostly Coke bottles) and quart milk bottles when I was a kid. You could probably drive a nail with the old Coke bottles but the milk bottles were pretty fragile.
I remember when drinks came in re-useable glass containers (even long neck beer bottles) and if you got thirsty you drank out of water jug or a water hose. I made a lot of money picking up soda bottles (mostly Coke bottles) and quart milk bottles when I was a kid. You could probably drive a nail with the old Coke bottles but the milk bottles were pretty fragile.
For most of my "recycling career", the depisit on soda bottles was $.02. Still, it wasn't hard to collect enough to finance a sugar binge.
I remember nickel Cokes and nickel payphones (payphones?).
First world problem as Salty said.
Don't bother me a bit as I generally only get a straw once a week or so when I buy gas at the local Rez gas station. They give a free fountain drink with a fill up so I get an ice tea. And likely because they are a Rez, they are still giving out plastic straws even here in Kommiefornia.
And I'm old enough to remember paper straws were all we had.
Geno
If you can snort your Coke from a century note, I guess you can drink your Coke from a paper straw.
Paper straws make great bottle rockets. Just fill them with 3fg black powder. I was real disappointed when plastic straws replaced the paper ones as plastic straws do not make good bottle rockets.
The new one they are introducing now is the wheatstock straw.
https://www.haystraws.com/
Stupidity is difficult to overestimate.
Seems like an OK idea to me.
Wonder how they actually work though. And I use so few I'm not in the market for 100 of them.
Geno
Are folks so pathetic they cant drink from the side of a glass?
Are folks so pathetic they cant drink from the side of a glass?
R U kidding me? Most of the cups are...…. paper!!! Only plastic may touch the lips. Or so I've read.
All the worlds problems and these are the solutions our elected officials come up with.
I drink from Styrofoam, [bleep] them all.
Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
You never had milk in a paper carton when you was in school? You can still buy liquid products in paper cartons today, whats the problem?
UH, didn't we have paper straws for -- like 50 years ??
UH, didn't we have paper straws for -- like 50 years ??
That's what I've been thinking, back in 50's era I thought they were paper.
UH, didn't we have paper straws for -- like 50 years ??
That's what I've been thinking, back in 50's era I thought they were paper.
They were indeed paper then.
They also got soggy back then too.
Paper straws were the only option when I was a kid. It didn't get any soggier than the paper cup. Of course I haven't drank anything through a straw in about 50 years.
I prefer to drink out of the side of a cup or glass. However if you are traveling in a vehicle a lid and straw are better to avoid spills, that or a bottle and cap. For the left's information. China and third world countries are the ones who pollute the oceans, not Americans. We either bury our trash or incinerate it. Almost every time I watch a survival show where people are placed near a beach in the tropics. They find all kinds of trash to use for survival purposes.
I too took my wagon around our neighborhood and collected coke and other soft drink bottles and at first got a penny for them, later 2 cents. Used the money to buy candy, ice cream, or various stuff.
Anyone recall when they started perforating straw wrappers so you couldn't launch them into your sibling's eye?
Didn't stop a well-made spit wad.
I remember individually wrapped paper straws. Then some jerk found a way to put the wrapper on so we couldn't shoot them at each other. In school today they'd probably have some random resource officer arrest you if you did that, definitely need to be drugged to control your violent nature.
Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
You never had milk in a paper carton when you was in school? You can still buy liquid products in paper cartons today, whats the problem?
Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
You never had milk in a paper carton when you was in school? You can still buy liquid products in paper cartons today, whats the problem?
I don’t like paper straws. I thought I made that clear in the original post.
If I had been around when they were first introduced, I wouldn’t had liked them then either.
Paper straws were the only option when I was a kid. It didn't get any soggier than the paper cup. Of course I haven't drank anything through a straw in about 50 years.
If you live long enough, through a straw might be the only way you drink.🍹
UH, didn't we have paper straws for -- like 50 years ??
That's what I've been thinking, back in 50's era I thought they were paper.
We had paper straws at school, when I finished high school.... 1970. That would be 50 years ago, but we had them.
Seems like an OK idea to me.
Wonder how they actually work though. And I use so few I'm not in the market for 100 of them.
Geno
Wife had one of those in a milkshake she order last month. Worked well. In fact, much more rigid than plastic which worked well with the shake.
Seems like an OK idea to me.
Wonder how they actually work though. And I use so few I'm not in the market for 100 of them.
Geno
Wife had one of those in a milkshake she order last month. Worked well. In fact, much more rigid than plastic which worked well with the shake.
Where was that Pugs? On the East Coast or were you folks visiting us Westerners?
I've never seen them, then again........................we don't get out much. Ate at decent restaurant in Fairfield CA last month, but don't recall anyone getting a straw of any sort.
If I see a package in the store I may get some, just for S & G's,
Geno
Time was we did not know any better, we just used what was there.
Did you know that if you hold a paper straw in your fist with your thumb over the end you can plunge the straw through a raw potato? And yet we let kids run around with these dangerous things.
Time was we did not know any better, we just used what was there.
We used a paper straw or did without, cause that's all there was.
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
Driving home after attended a graduation in College Station we (wife, son, me) stopped at a distillery in Dripping Springs. I had an Old Fashioned. They offered a really nice paper straw. A cocktail with a straw plastic, paper or otherwise? We stopped at another one in Blanco. No straws...
I prefer to drink out of the side of a cup or glass. However if you are traveling in a vehicle a lid and straw are better to avoid spills, that or a bottle and cap. For the left's information. China and third world countries are the ones who pollute the oceans, not Americans. We either bury our trash or incinerate it. Almost every time I watch a survival show where people are placed near a beach in the tropics. They find all kinds of trash to use for survival purposes.
I too took my wagon around our neighborhood and collected coke and other soft drink bottles and at first got a penny for them, later 2 cents. Used the money to buy candy, ice cream, or various stuff.
I won't disagree with you about China and third world countries polluting the oceans, but to say not Americans is a bit misleading.
I worked a job where I pumped about 11 cubic feet a second of water, from the upper 5' of flow, out of the Columbia River, through a screen with 1/8" holes in it. During the course of 24 hours I have filled a bread bag with plastic trash. At that time of year the dams on the Columbia were releasing between 100,000 and 500,000 cubic feet per second.
The math would tend to show that what I was gathering from such a small percentage of the flow when upscaled to the flow of the river would probably equate to tons per day of plastic flowing out the mouth of that river.
The types of plastic amazed me, everything from worm container lids to Visqueen used for landscaping and soil erosion control, to part of toys, and the ubiquitous blue tarps.
Now, think of what's flowing out of every other river in the US of A and tell me Americans aren't polluting the oceans.
Again, China, India, most of South Asia and Africa are the big contributors, but we aren't guiltless.
Geno
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Where was that Pugs? On the East Coast or were you folks visiting us Westerners?
Geno
Local Bobby Flay's Burger Palace.
https://www.livecasinohotel.com/locations/bobbys-burger-palaceThe good thing about giving people a local casino to waste their money is it attracts good restaurants and Bobby's makes a fine burger.
You can also press a paper straw flat lengthwise, then squeeze along the fold to open it and flatten it again at 90 degrees to the original fold. Squeeze that open and you have a square straw. Every six year old knew how to do that. Can't do it with plastic so no wonder kids these days have no inkling of geometry or engineering.
But paper or plastic, the procedure is the same, assuming the straws are individually wrapped in paper.
1. Open one end of wrapper and withdraw straw about 2 inches.
2. Twist other end of wrapper tightly into a point.
3. Blow on the straw to launch the wrapper like a projectile and hit your sister in the face.
4. Pretend to be abashed by Mom's rebuke.
5. At the end of the milkshake, try to suck up the last little bit and make loud sslurrpple noises until the 4th or 5th repetition of #4. Fwiw, these plastic straws with the little spoon portion are worthless for that unless you turn it around, and then the sharp plastic spoon part cuts your tongue.
Either way, first world problems for sure.
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
A real problem for whom? And why? Because it's aesthetically unpleasing? The big complaint seems to be that the stuff is inert, doesn't go away by itself. So are rocks.
Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
You never had milk in a paper carton when you was in school? You can still buy liquid products in paper cartons today, whats the problem?
I still prefer to buy our milk in 1/2 gallon paper cartons. Wish they had the ones without the little plastic screw on top, would save me some work. I have to rip those out so I can use the carton to get the fire started. The waxed carton will help start it right up.
Not pollution free, as I'm still putting out smoke and carbon, but our recycling program is primitive here to say the least.
Geno
Cool Pugs,
Next time we head to the Bay Area I'll try to remember to look for a Bobby Flay's.
Might be headed that way in 8 weeks as there's likely going to be a new member of our family coming. A whippet puppy is in the offing!
Geno
UH, didn't we have paper straws for -- like 50 years ??
That's what I've been thinking, back in 50's era I thought they were paper.
I remember them from the late 60s and early 70s.
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
A real problem for whom? And why? Because it's aesthetically unpleasing? The big complaint seems to be that the stuff is inert, doesn't go away by itself. So are rocks.
I used to think it was inert too. Turns out it isn't look up micro plastics. Although it lasts for hundreds of years its slowly giving off microscopic bits of itself. Its a real problem for oyster farmers near here.
Dumping you trash just anywhere is not good.
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
A real problem for whom? And why? Because it's aesthetically unpleasing? The big complaint seems to be that the stuff is inert, doesn't go away by itself. So are rocks.
[bleep] genius...what can I say
Isn't this just a woman problem? Never saw a man use a straw with anything.
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
A real problem for whom? And why? Because it's aesthetically unpleasing? The big complaint seems to be that the stuff is inert, doesn't go away by itself. So are rocks.
I used to think it was inert too. Turns out it isn't look up micro plastics. Although it lasts for hundreds of years its slowly giving off microscopic bits of itself. Its a real problem for oyster farmers near here.
The oyster farms and such might just be a 'Canary in a coal mine" for that stuff.
Geno
Single use plastic is a real problem. For a outdoors forum it seems many here could care less about the environment
A real problem for whom? And why? Because it's aesthetically unpleasing? The big complaint seems to be that the stuff is inert, doesn't go away by itself. So are rocks.
I used to think it was inert too. Turns out it isn't look up micro plastics. Although it lasts for hundreds of years its slowly giving off microscopic bits of itself. Its a real problem for oyster farmers near here.
The oyster farms and such might just be a 'Canary in a coal mine" for that stuff.
Geno
Yes they are Geno. Them and other bivalves like clams make their living siphoning huge amounts of water to get the bits of plankton etc. for food. Unfortunately that includes bad stuff and they're going to get the effects of it long before a fish for instance because they're basically a filter for everything in the water column. I guess the microplastics plug up their system and do harm.
I've been reading about it for years Salty. I'm a fish head, so anything marine related that comes up on my radar gets looked into.
Especially bad for filter feeders as they are not gaining any energy from the ingestion of microplastics. They already have to filter out sediment and indigestible items in the normal cost of doing business, now add this on top and they are expending energy to feed without getting the same benefit.
Not only bivalves, but look at the other forms of life that get their food resources in the same or similar manner. Many forms of plankton, corals, etc. Compound that up the food chain, less energy in each smaller item eaten means less energy taken in per unit of energy expended by larger critters.
Some research is pointing to our use of synthetics in our clothing as another source of microplastics, not just the breaking down of what we generally think of as "plastic pollution". Check out the dryer vent screen, a lot of the same stuff goes out the pipe with the laundry rinse water, and sewage treatment systems don't deal with particulate matter that small.
Oh well, nothing we can do about it as China and others are still going to pollute..............so we might as well also?
Geno
Geno, the 1950s are sounding pretty good right about now. Blue jeans, cotton shirt a wool sweater, leather boots and paper straw in the soda. No damn plastic tips in the boolits in the ot six thank-you very much
Geno, the 1950s are sounding pretty good right about now. Blue jeans, cotton shirt a wool sweater, leather boots and paper straw in the soda. No damn plastic tips in the boolits in the ot six thank-you very much
Seems I recall some company back about them times had some bronze tips?
Think they'd work again?
Regarding plastic ammo remnants, in the trash I mentioned coming out of the Columbia among the common items were shot shell wads and sometimes the shell itself. A lot of times the petals to the wads had broken off so I just got the base. All of it going right out the Columbia to the sea.
Geno
Um, don't leave the straw in the drink for a few hours? Nothing new here I remember paper straws as a kid too. First world problem.
South Africa was totally paper straws in April when I was there. I hate the texture and they were beginning to disintegrate by the time I finished my milkshake. BTW, Mugg and Bean make a delicious lime milkshake. Best I've ever had.
Are folks so pathetic they cant drink from the side of a glass?
Not sure I want to put lips to glasses these days. Plus a lot of places over fill their glasses. You can't hardly get them to mouth without spilling.
Never was one to use a straw until people started whining about them, now I make sure to use at least one every time I buy food.
Ronnie
If you save enough, you can buy some teeth.
Chinese ships apparently dump tons of plastic and other garbage over the side while at sea. Kinda doubt that paper straws are going to make up for all that, but try telling that to the Kali Kookybirds.
On a positive note, the Kraft process that produces paper, including presumably straws, also produces DMSO, which you can put on those jaw muscles you strain trying to suck your soda pop through them.
I don't know about now, but Navy ships dumped all garbage into the ocean while out to sea.
Isn't this just a woman problem? Never saw a man use a straw with anything.
This is the winner right here. That was authentically funny. What an Azzhole! :-)
Nothing wrong with biting both ends off a Red Vine and drinking cheap wine with it, really improves the taste.
Nothing wrong with biting both ends off a Red Vine and drinking cheap wine with it, really improves the taste.
Now that is a great idea.
Some one tell california to quit dumping trash into the ocean.
Nothing wrong with biting both ends off a Red Vine and drinking cheap wine with it, really improves the taste.
you da' man!
Geno
PS, would you suggest a nice Ripple, Gallo Jug wine, or perhap a Night Train?
Who in the world thought putting a paper product in a drink was a good idea ?
I had heard of such but living in the Midwest, we haven’t seen the craziness in person.
Fast forward to this week when I worked in Seattle all week. Needless to say, I was introduced to this moronic idea.
Some people could screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet.
Nothing like leaving your straw in your drink for a few hours after lunch and your straw has turned into a wet noodle when you go to grab a drink.
The level of dumbfuckery knows no limits.
Roughly half of the population, [MEN] shouldn't be worrying about any damn drinking straw.
I remember paper straws from my childhood. 1960s. Kind of a wax paper straw. We thought plastic straws were so much better when they came out.
Was hunting Sandhill Cranes this morning & realized my gun was missing the plug. After the hunt I ate at Whataburger. Grabbed enough straws to fashion a plug for tomorrow’s hunt.