Comment on Just doing my part 🤡

mochisuki@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe beverages could be served in containers that don’t require a straw. I wouldn’t mind being served a can or a bottle instead a cardboard cup.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The main issue is drinks with ice. But maybe we could add a retainer on top of the glass to hold the ice so we can sip directly from the cup.

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    • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In some countries canned drinks are known to be unsanitary. Rodents would pee on cans and someone would rinse/wash the top (hopefully). You’d buy a can and get a straw because they don’t scrub the little notch. You’d see yellow.

      EVERYONE uses straws for health reasons.

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My teeth make pretty good retainers. It seems like a weird nostalgia thing. There must be far more pop consumed in a bottle than in a fast food cup, and I’ve never seen anyone put a straw in a bottle (except on tv).

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• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or you know, food grade stainless steel straws. No bad chemicals, doesn’t turn to mush (unless exposed to temperatures of 1,400 to 1,530 °C) and fully recyclable. Some people say they are hard to wash but ive never had a problem i just stick em vertical into the silverware holder of my dishwasher and it’s always gotten all the way through the straw clean.

  They are cheap to produce as well. Not plastic cheap maybe but businesses could easily replace plastic straws with them without going bankrupt or anything. Easy model is just have em as an optional extra so once people already have 8 they can just use their own lol

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  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    temperatures of 1,400 to 1,530 °C

    Well, that rules out drinking McDonald’s coffee with one then.

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  • Aecosthedark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think id prefer a glass straw to metal, but i get thats not something fast food could do easily.

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    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Main issue with that is shipping, of course the government could give them subsidies to cut the costs

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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the day to day with a metal straw like?
    At home it’s simple but going to the mall with a metal straw in my pocket sounds uncomfortable

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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I usually just keep them in the center console of my car the ones I bought came with a little nice bamboo bag thing to keep them in. So I only keep them in my pocket when I know I’m going to use them and I haven’t found them to be particularly annoying in the pocket personally could always just hang the bag off a belt loop if it really bothered me though

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use my own metal straw and it works great

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  • Fisch@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We have those at home too and they’re the only straws I use. They just feel premium in a way.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is a learning curve with metal straws, if you only used plastic / paper. I hit my teeth so often with the metal one when I first got it.

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ours have little silicone bits on the end to use as a mouthpiece to prevent that. We also have some silicone straws which work fine.

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• bobbytables@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was recently served a long macaroni as a straw in a restaurant. It was honestly amazing how well it worked! At no point it was mushy and there’s nothing in it that I wouldn’t eat with my pasta dish anyway.

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  • ColdFenix@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are good for some drinks but not great for others in my experience. They do get soggy after a few hours and start to dissolve a bit into the drink so if you use them at home and refill a few times over an evening they aren’t great. They also react with some fizzy drinks and cause them to bubble over.

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