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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

It’s a cup, take off the lid and drink

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    How do we feel about metal straws? I like the taste

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I really like those lids where the front opens as you tip it, and closes when you put the cup on the table. No straw needed.
    I wish they weren't plastic though, not seen a biodegradable version yet.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Here's the secret they don't want you to know: You don't need to use a straw at all. Forgo the lid and voila! You've got a cup!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tip the cup enough, ice attack

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Bamboo straws are nice, metal straws are the best, and they might look super nice.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I like glass the most because they dont have a "taste".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh mais c'est une communauté francophone, les pailles en bambou c'est bien, les pailles en métal c'est le mieux, et y'en a des très classes !

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Oups, c'est un dommage ce qu'il a inundé avec des comments anglaises quand le topic devenu populaire.

    (Je suis en train d'apprendre la français et je ne sais pas si je suis écrire correctement).

    (Je preferé aussi les pailles en métal, d'ailleurs.)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I’ll seriously never understand the need for a sippy straw.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The only, ONLY person I asked who had a rational reason for their straw usage was in a bid to protect his teeth from acids in soda and juices.

    That being said, I can only look back to college years, but he had GREAT teeth.

    I'm closer to 40 than 30, and well, I need a lot of dental work I can't afford.

    Maybe he was on to something.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Genetics also play a lot when it's about dental health and longevity. Base-level dental health is negatively correlated to bone health for whatever reason, also if you have fragile nails you're more likely will experience bad teeth in your later life regardless of how much you brush, floss, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Me neither, but I learned that :

    • kids really like it, you can bubble and stuff,

    • it is useful when you drink from a can cause the border can be soiled (by rat piss or other tasty stuff, by the way if you drink from a can you should always wipe it with a cloth or clean with water before putting your mouth on it),

    • a guy I know who can't use his hands, so his only way to drink without help is with a straw

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    : Quand j'étais petit, les adultes ne buvaient pas avec une paille, c'était que pour les enfants au restau ou à des anniversaires.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    There is no good reason why we don't have good straws from natural materials consumers wouldn't differentiate to plastic ones.

    It's so little material development and so much lobbying & a bit of logistics issue.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    la paille a même des couleurs françaises

    (avertissement : traduction)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Conservatives back then: "If you need a straw to drink, you're a baby!"

    Conservatives now: "If I can't have my plastic straw, I'll literally cry!"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I never had this issue with a paper straw.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    I'm not a big straw user, but same, never understood what people do with straws that grinds their gears so much with the material change.

    Maybe there's different qualities around the world's markets?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I’ve heard places wanted to make the switch but just went super cheap or the manufacturing wasn’t there right away.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, the "super cheap" mentality towards something that affects the profits at a 0.00something% is super annoying (whilst acting like it's the end of the world, and with their rising profits above inflation).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can tell you that some get soggy faster than others. Some are unusable after sitting in a glass for more than 30 minutes; others I haven't had any issue with.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I like the noodle ones! They stay strong for hours then you can just throw them away or crush them. Not sure if they’re actually noodles but they’re similar.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    My friend keeps worrying they're not gluten free though. I just skip straws when we drink, I don't find straws really useful and also out of solidarity.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    When my grandma died last year I found a stop closed bag with real straws. Made of plastic. Like two hundred or so. Now my kids get one every once in a while and get told to cherish them because those are the last we are gonna get.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I still have a drawer full of them and I wash them until they wear out because I'm gross because I hate how cold the metal straws get when they're sitting in ice

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Actually plastic straws are the best. They can be recycled. But stupid people are throwing them away into ocean. Who is guilty in that? Big corporations and governments who don't want to recycle trash properly.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    recycling is last on the list of reduce, reuse, recycle. also recycling plastic often just isn't effective. the better approach is to make things out of inoffensive materials into products that you can reuse.

    first of all you need to sort plastics properly (and there are dozens of types you'll commonly encounter), and then you need to make sure to sort out all the plastics that are bonded or laminated to anything else. you can't really separate those kinds of plastics from their partner materials properly on an industrial scale, as in there's like one factory that can properly recycle tetrapaks into recycled material in the world for example. every other waste management facility either incinerates the plastic or adds them to a landfill. recycled plastic is in the single digit % of all plastic products.

    due to the expensive recycling process it's almost always cheaper to use fresh new plastic instead of recycled material. not to mention that when recycled plastic is contaminated with different plastics eventually its usability as a material decreases.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Guess who provided those taking points for you to repeat so religiously ...

    Recycling not only doesn't work on any scale bcs logistics, it also introduces extra harmful (carcinogenic) chemicals, so you shouldn't drink from recycled plastic straws anyway, and degrades the material so it's not even sustainable.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Fun fact: in my area, straws can only be recycled at the "Center for Hard to Recycle Materials," and even then they have to be separated out from all other plastics. You can imagine how that affects the rate at which they get recycled, I assume!

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