Posted on 06/22/2018 2:07:55 PM PDT by bgill
Legendary Austin music and BBQ venue Stubb's has pledged to stop using plastic drinking straws. In a tweet, Stubb's said they would discontinue use "effective immediately" and also highlighted just how many straws Americans use in a day: We pledged to stop using plastic drinking straws. Americans use approximately 500 million straws daily. That's enough straws to circle the earth 2.5x. Effective immediately we will no longer be using straws. Join us in fighting pollution by saying 'no' to plastic drinking straws!
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
“How about paper straws? Are they PC?”
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I grew up using paper straws——we would unroll/unwind them after usage-—and they WERE PC-——Pretty Cool.
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They will get my straw when they pry it from my cold, dead Diet Coke covered fingers.
Sure you’re not talking about Rudy’s?
Fine, typo.
actually I have no problem with eliminating some things...
we're are so wasteful in this society...
500 million straws per day? That’s ridiculous. That’s more than 1 straw every day for every man, woman and child in the country.
These fake news sources should employ some kind of common sense buffer dude who will flag their propaganda when it goes over the line from fake to absurd. Would help to keep them from looking like total flunkies all the time.
Plastic is a waste product of the petroleum-refining process. As long as the Stubbs folks drive cars, plastic is going to be created. Might as well make it into something useful like...oh... I don’t know...plastic straws?
Order as MAGA?
That would be 1.5 straws for EVERY man, woman, and child (plus all those humans who do not identify with the listed categories)in the United States, EVERY DAY.
I am not buying it.
Big deal!
Monumental Stupidity at work.
See #31. I did not read your post before I posted. GMTA.
“Their boogey man changes daily.”
That’s because the have no foresight. And also because they just like disrupting things.
LOL! You’re right! No more sipping at all! Guzzling from now on.
My Schwinn mechanics and I grabbed a big handful of straws everytime we picked up our combined lunch order from Micky Dees or
The BK Lounge. After two summers we had enough straws to fill a chest freezer. Few of us ever even used sissy sticks. We had a lot of ketchup packs too. Haha. Stupid bbq joint.
Two straws per every Latte’ or Cafe’ Americano’....think about it. Two straws for every hard pop in every bar too.
How about paper straws?
If you use a white one you are a racist.
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