Comment on #environmentalist

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The odd time I end up eating fast food and getting a paper straw, it’s the fact that it goes mushy before I finish my drink. I think that’s the texture issue people are talking about.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that takes like half an hour though, and affects the bottom end.

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    • fascicle@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Depends on the straw, there are some pretty bad ones and done decent ones

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The ones I’ve used have gone mushy in half that time

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Skill issue either way

        Drink faster noobs

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      • TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Out of curiosity, what businesses are you getting these straws from? The few times I got a paper straw I didn’t really notice an issue other than the texture on my lips. I wonder if those companies are just skipping on the quality. The good paper straws probably cost more than the plastic ones right now and I’d bet their trying to meet the same margins, or tighter.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The really bad experiences I’ve had with straws is at movie theatres. In that case you’re given a pretty big drink in a flimsy cup, and you’re slowly drinking it over a couple of hours.

    There’s no way that the paper straw holds up in those circumstances. You also don’t want to drink without the straw, because the cup is so flimsy that if you try to drink from it like a regular cup/glass it’s likely to collapse. I have permanent metal / rubber straws at home, but of course I never remember to bring them with me when I go to a movie, since I only go a couple of times a year.

    The only solution I’ve found is to take 3-4 paper straws with me, and change them out over the course of the movie.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fast food implies fast drink, you’re not supposed to let it soak in there like it’s a hot tub.

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    • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it’s called fast food because it’s delivered to you quickly, not because you’re supposed to shove it down your gullet fast…

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lies!

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean it’s both, it was supposed to be something you can get on a short lunch break

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They have free refills

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  my autistic ass

  your ass has autism?

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  • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Asstism if you will.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve heard of ass burgers before…

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  • arschflugkoerper@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Even if it does, straws are not really meant for it anyways.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It used to be ass burgers, but they redefined the ass spectrum.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Idk about you but my ass has burgers

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not all autism are the same, some with autism will hyperfix on the environment and not give a shit about the texture.

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think they’ve gotten better, or the ones a lot of people are familiar with are just kinda miserable. I’m most familiar with the ones from when I worked at Disney’s Animal Kingdom like fifteen years ago. They were texturally kinda strange and would get mushy at the top partway through an American-sized soda. They used those straws because the regular plastic ones could have been harmful to some of the animals in the park and I was lead to believe that those straws were pretty common in zoos in general.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think there was only one time that I had a paper straw and thought that it was good enough. But it felt… expensive? In my mouth. Like you could tell they hated to have to shell out for that.

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• JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My only problem with them is you need a spare.

  That and why is there still a plastic lid, and I dont think that the cup is recyclable due to the coating.

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And I just hate every straw because they change the texture of the bubbles, which I realize it’s a very autistic thing to say

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• smh@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not neurotypical, but yes, I do chew on them.

  I ended up going with silicone straws in my household. Mine open up down the side so you can run your finger up them for easy cleaning.

  The metal and hard plastic ones suck for chewing on.

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  • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We have metal ones with a silicone nib on the end. Perfect for chewing on.

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  do you chew on them, or what?

  Maybe… Is it that weird?

  I always chewed on pens in school too. Hmm.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’5 really understand complains about paper straws, i never had problems with them!

  ~Also there is the nice bonus that after drinking i can chew them while i walk to the trash can~

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