Straws

This little tube to suck up liquid has become a world hazard. What are they good for?

My first recollection with straws was milk. I like milk. We had milk delivered in glass bottles with paper tops. Milk on cereal was necessary to get the prize out of the box. Then somebody, maybe Bosco, invented a straw full of chocolate. Take regular white milk and make it brown wonderful. I suppose it was to make more kids drink milk but who doesn’t like chocolate?

The other side of straws was you could blow into them and make bubbles. What fun!

The little boxes they gave you in the school lunch lines had tiny straws in them. The soda jerk always put a straw in your cherry coke. The umbrella cocktails came with straws.

But straws didn’t work with milkshakes. Straws were never put in Tequila shots or champagne because they would fall out of the glass. Don’t remember anyone drinking brandy through a straw. Do you offer someone who drinks beer out of a can or red Solo cup a straw?

Straws were great for blowing the paper wrapper or shooting spitballs but they are filling up the ocean and the fishes are not happy. It seems these little tubes don’t biodegrade very well.

So why do we need straws?

 Are we not big enough to tilt the lid of our sippy cup and slurp down the liquid? So you make a little spill now and again; that is what bibs are for.

Just put your lips on the rim and throw it back, slam down your glass and ask for another.