Posted on 02/17/2017 8:33:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
or decades, customers have complained that McDonald’s straws were pretty much useless when used to drink milkshakes....
But now, with the announcement of several new Shamrock Shakes, the fast food giant has swung the pendulum far in the other direction, with a straw that’s overengineered – seriously, two engineering firms worked on it – to look more like mountain climbing equipment than it does any straw we’ve ever seen. Here’s the result of design, a determined product development team, and a 3D printer:
A ridiculous item like this requires an equally bombastic name, which McDonald’s has, of course, bestowed upon the item. It’s the STRAW. Naturally, it’s got an acronym as contrived as the device itself: Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal.
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The sad part is that I’m half tempted to actually go get one of these straws next Friday; one of the two California locations is only a half hour away, and odds are quite good that Uber or Lyft will have a driver promo that night to encourage me to be there anyway.
The wheels of the FDA grind exceed slow, but they grind exceeding fine.
It's so obvious to me that McDonald's is gasping at straws!
I remember getting wider straws for milk shakes...what happened to that idea?
Or - we could just let our milkshake melt a little; then
just turn up the cup and use our mouths to drink it. -
You know, fingers were made before forks AND mouths were
made before straws.
A year ago I ate at McDonalds for the first time in years. I was starving but only had a few minutes for lunch. I got a Quarterpounder and fries. The bun was stale, the meat tasteless and the fries limp and unpleasant. But the worst part was the morbidly obese counterwoman who wore a shirt two sizes too small, treating me to a birds eye view of her flab. I remember thinking “where is the manager?” although maybe it was her. My last trip to McD’s ever.
If you want a shake with the STRAW...the shake will cost you $27.99.
Yeah...a kid in my high school had one...
Wasn’t that a Gremlin?
Another straw man argument against McDonalds.
I remember visiting my first McDonalds back in the 60s.
Argh.. what’s all the excitement about? Hamburgers? eh
Milk Shakes? double ehh.
Yes, I eat McDonalds occasionally, But never have ordered a milk shake after that first one. Guess I got spoiled on the real thing.
DQ used to make an acceptable one, not fountain counter quality but acceptable.
160 Broadway at Wall Street.
Noon NYC Friday.
Worst car I ever owned, right behind a VW THING.
Anyone remember the chocolate milk straws from the 1950s? You place the straw in a glass of milk, stir, and the straw turns the milk chocolate.
It’s tail was cut off by the farmer’s wife?
There was a Cadillac that looked similar and a Pontiac that looked like its trunk was pinched off.
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