It's Friday lunch time and I'm sitting at my desk trying to eat with a set of flimsy wooden cutlery. The so-called knife barely cuts through the meat, the pointy bits of the spork are too blunt and too short to stab anything with, and the spoon part is too shallow to be scoop anything up.
The paper straw in my drink has turned soggy after less than 10 minutes and it's got this damn ugly taste to it.
I'm curious if anyone actually likes these replacements?
lol that they choose these specific pieces of plastic to ban, yet take-away coffee cups are fine.
If you still need plastic straws, you can still buy them:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Disposable-Flexible-Drinking-Benda…
I never have trouble with the the paper straws or wooden cutlery, then again I'm not eating steak with them either (if I was I would be sitting down in a restaurant with metal cutlery). I actually don't understand how people have trouble with the straws but I hear so many complaints about them, mine doesn't even get soggy.
I serve compostable plastic straws. More expensive, yeah. Plus they split if you squeeze them too hard. But they are head and shoulders above the paper garbage.
They suck. But so does all the plastic in rivers and oceans.
BYO portable cutlery set or real metal is always an option.
Even the cheapest Kmart metal trash is a far more pleasant experience, keep some in work desk for food events.
Wooden cutlery don't mind the cardboard ones are the worst can't stand the straws as well.
I actually remember when straws were just for kids who were still developing their dexterity, Then they got added for drunk people, same reason I presume. How did we get to a point where functioning adults need one.
I can tolerate many common sensory annoyances, but dry moisture/saliva absorbing wooden cutlery has no place in this world, let alone a mouth!
wood fork >>> plastic fork
I had some wood feeling straws, that seemed to last longer then 10min
Otherwise paper straws are just stupid - a straw needs to at least be waterproof
Has anyone ever made it to the bottom of a large McDonalds iced coffee frappe without straw collapse? It should be an olympic sport.
Macca's wooden spoons make icecream taste like wood. Their straws are pathetic. I've bought disposable forks and straws and keep them in the car.
BYO own cutlery, you know you’re gonna eat lunch at some point.
And who uses straws anymore, direct to mouth (DtM) is the way to go.
I bring my own cutlery to work as they have recently changed to wooden crap.
Why do you even need a straw? The only time I use a straw is when I get fast food, and that’s because they just give it to me.
Why not just drink out of your cup like a grown up?
I had a thick shake today. I was surprised to see, considering the numerous intelligent responses I've seen in this thread, that after the 20 odd minutes it took for me to drink it, the structural integrity of the paper straw remained solid and functional. Maybe they do actually work!
I'm thinking these are the people that when you pass them a rollie it comes back soggy after they went full pucker on it. The same people that when you were a kid and shared your drink, instead of a sip, they go full open mouth so you let them keep it.
Or maybe he got a straw coated in wax or something…
Have you tried drinking milkshare from five guys with paper straw before?
…tried drinking milkshare from five guys
umm.. no, I'm not into that sort of thing! 🤣
What's the hourly rate you get for buk@ke clean up?
1) The Straws suck ruin the taste of everything and fall apart.. I almost always carry around a metal straw. Keep one in my car and work backpack, covers me anywhere I go that I need a straw for.
2) Forks are OK. Knives are very average and the spoons? They leave that awful flavour too, especially a KFC mash and gravy. but I usually just keep chopsticks with my straw and a small spoon, covers me for everything, never need to cut shit as I just take bites of things.
Drinking slushies/slurpies is impossible, ice sticks to paper.
(profanity) the greens
i would love to see places to wash cutlery at food courts and stuff . that would be a good step to make people take their own.
Those little wooden spoons at KFC are disgusting and you can taste them
Just hit up your local Asian grocer. They still import and sell the plastic everything.
Maccas straws are the worst. But don't bite them and pull them up out of the drink if you're not drinking.
I very rarely would need to use a straw, except for a bubble tea once or twice a year. Bubble tea has to be a plastic straw.
I will also say that paper straws are impractical for use in hospitals and yet straws themselves are very helpful to aid patients to drink. You can't leave a paper straw in a cup for a long period, i don't see paper straws where they have the kind and can be bent down (do they exist?).
I leave cutlery at work and if i ever get given plastic cutlery somewhere by accident, i reuse it at home for a bit (small fork to get pickles from a jar, or add to our picnic/travel cooler pack).
I work in fast food, and the cup lids have changed, so they are the same as coffee lids and you don't need a straw. But people still keep expecting and asking for straws. I'm tempted to ask them if they drink coffee with a straw too. Or next time they question why I didn't give a straw by default, I could ask them how often they see others drinking coffee with a straw.
I reckon $1 billon dollars in research grants to the STEM/engineering PhDs would land us a biodegradeable form of plastic within a decade and resolve the issue of this thread.
I wonder why the federal government can't fund science and engineering over the hundreds of billions wasted elsewhere.
Chopsticks are great never flimsy but the amount of one time use chopstick get thrown out everyday in this world is shocking.
As a father of a child with disabilities, straw alternatives to plastic do NOT functionally suck. All they do is cause more harm than good. Also, the plastic straw killing our oceans is based of a flawed science project of a junior high schooler. For more info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxq1XLqWIA