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McDonalds Paper straws taste like...

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  • #32
    zoe 3619
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭zoe 3619


    Am I weird in wondering why so many of you use straws?Always saw them as a novelty item for small children.
    Can you not just sip your drink?


  • #33
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,001 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    Good to see they are making a difference.

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  • #34
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

    What the government should do is designate an unpopulated area such as Leitrim and dump everything in it, its not like anyone lives there or ever goes there anyway so there is no problem.

    How can you dump stuff in a place that doesnt exist?


  • #35
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    kneemos wrote: »
    How do you clean a straw?

    With a pipe cleaner.


  • #36
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Anyone notice that shiny Covantas building in Ringsend, out by the two old ESB chimneys?
    I have a feeling it all goes there anyway, up in smoke.

    Plastic, cardboard, paper, whatever. The monster incinerator isn't fussy.


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  • #37
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Is eating the straws a thing now?


  • #38
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    How recent is this and is it Dublin only?

    Just that I had a meal at Crescent, Limerick last Friday and got a plastic straw :)

    Later that night was in a bar in the City and got these god awful paper straws in a cocktail I was drinking!
    Fooking horrific :D


  • #39
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    kneemos wrote: »
    How do you clean a straw?

    I saw reusable straws online. You get a little brush with them. You probably end up using tons of water washing them.


  • #40
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I saw reusable straws online. You get a little brush with them. You probably end up using tons of water washing them.

    Nope, into the dishwasher with them along with the cutlery. It would be going on anyway, so they're not using any extra water


  • #41
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    zoe 3619 wrote: »
    Am I weird in wondering why so many of you use straws?Always saw them as a novelty item for small children.
    Can you not just sip your drink?

    Not McD milk shakes, a straw, a proper plastic straw, is the only job for them. Not the taste of soggy cardboard.


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  • #42
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    janfebmar wrote: »
    Anyone else taste the new McDonalds straws yet and think they feel and taste like soggy cardboard? Maybe it is just me, I preferred the plastic ones but I know they are supposed to be worse for the environment. But the taste of the new ones - ughhh. Never again.

    Isn't that why they got rid of them in the first place.


  • #43
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Zaph wrote: »
    Nope, into the dishwasher with them along with the cutlery. It would be going on anyway, so they're not using any extra water

    Not everybody has a dish washer!


  • #44
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    I am surprised a business as big as McD took something to market which does not work, and which they are going to lose customers over. They lost my 3 times a year custom anyway.

    If they cared about the environment they would not be producing thousands of container loads of junk toys in China each year for their kiddy meals, most of which are discarded immediately. And how about all the little plastic sachets of Heinz sauce - would it not be more efficient to do it some other way?


  • #45
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    zoe 3619 wrote: »
    Am I weird in wondering why so many of you use straws?Always saw them as a novelty item for small children.
    Can you not just sip your drink?
    No, drinking fizzy drinks without a straw is very bad for your teeth. And milkshakes need a straw.

    Plus, "novelty item for small children"? You see the fun they're having sucking away? I WANT THAT FUN.


  • #46
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Not everybody has a dish washer!

    Well OK, you get your staff to wash them for you then, but you don't have to pay the dishwasher so I'd definitely recommend replacing them with one.


  • #47
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    janfebmar wrote: »
    And how about all the little plastic sachets of Heinz sauce - would it not be more efficient to do it some other way?
    There is another way, ketchup dispensers, like they use in most fast food joints in America.

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  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    McDonalds.

    ‘Food’ for lazy, stupid people.


  • #49
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I saw reusable straws online. You get a little brush with them. You probably end up using tons of water washing them.


    For fizzy drinks they might be OK. Milk based drink residue goes mouldy very quickly and is hard to shift.


    Also they're massive. Golf ball through a hose pipe comes to mind.

    https://youtu.be/TmVTPJEvri8


  • #50
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    kneemos wrote: »
    Also they're massive. Golf ball through a hose pipe comes to mind.

    https://youtu.be/TmVTPJEvri8

    They're not all that size. My wife uses them all the time and the ones she has are the same width as a regular McDonald's plastic straw.


  • #51
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 69,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    They're awful things..........completely ruin a good drink!


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  • #52
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Akrasia wrote: »
    When they start selling a 'straw for life' and the press under my sink gets full of metal straws....

    Every single piece of food in a supermarket comes with some kind of plastic wrapper. Straws are the least of our worries.

    No they don't. You can take your own reusable mesh bag for produce, same for stuff in the bulk bins. You can choose not to buy overly wrapped things. It's not that hard.


  • #53
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Frank O. Pinion wrote: »
    No, drinking fizzy drinks without a straw is very bad for your teeth. And milkshakes need a straw.
    How are you able to get the straw down your throat? If the fizzy is going to bypass your teeth its going to need to go directly down your throat.


    Their milkshakes are a bit too thick. I doubt a paper straw is going to withstand the vacuum pressure I generate when trying to suck them up.


  • #54
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    recedite wrote: »
    How are you able to get the straw down your throat? If the fizzy is going to bypass your teeth its going to need to go directly down your throat.
    I have no problem getting something long down my throat.


  • #55
    TheAlkaline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭TheAlkaline


    Zaph wrote: »
    Nope, into the dishwasher with them along with the cutlery. It would be going on anyway, so they're not using any extra water

    Yeah, I seen that there is a company in Kilcoole www.biostraws.ie, they sell 5 piece metal straws kits with brushes to clean them.

    Good price as well, pity that the rainbow ones are out of stock though


  • #56
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Here's your solution as long as you don't mind spending €60 https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Sorbos-Edible-Straws-Cinnamon-Flavour-7-5inch-Pack-of-200-Biodegradable/153100332112?hash=item23a57dac50:g:ZgMAAOSwdc5bVY9-


  • #57
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Are the lids for the soft drinks not still made of plastic?


  • #58
    Teddy Daniels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭Teddy Daniels


    sugarman wrote: »
    They should just make the lids of the cups like coffee cup lids. No straw needed and if you knock it over it doesn't go everywhere.

    What are these lids you are referring to made out of ?


  • #59
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Never use s straw don't trust them, god knows what people do with them in the factories.
    Just take the lid off and drink like a man


  • #60
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Never use s straw don't trust them, god knows what people do with them in the factories.
    Just take the lid off and drink like a man
    David Beckham takes the lid off and leaves the straw in.... then creeps me the fúck out with his sinister smile.


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  • #61
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Autecher wrote: »
    David Beckham takes the lid off and leaves the straw in.... then creeps me the fúck out with his sinister smile.


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    He knows something we don't


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