[Windcatcher]

Too neat and funny not to share. The video in the article is a hoot. They actually performed flow modeling and simulation with aerospace personnel to redesign the straw.

[Sacajaweau]

Introduction to hookah??

[butlerweave]

I remember you needed a plaster on the back of your neck to drink a McDonald’s shake

[Steely Tom]

McDonald’s Reengineered The Straw And Is Selling It Like Apple Product

You mean, you have to sign a EULA before you suck on it?

Or do you mean it will burn your tongue if you don't let it cool off for a while...

[Yo-Yo]

Too bad my state (Michigan) isn't on the giveaway list.

[Kickass Conservative]

Code Name: Lewinsky.

[Calvin Locke]

McD's is stagnating, so they've got to try something new, in this instance, a multi-ported straw to access a layered shake.

Now, what happens when you need to get those last, bottom layer drops, and the uncovered ports lower the vacuum?

Oh, and BTW, the gimmick is available in very limited, 12 state, promotion.

[InterceptPoint]

OK Experts:

Is that a Brit, Ausssie or NZ accent?

Or none of the above.

[RayChuang88]

McDonald's essentially took the typical Jony Ive official Apple video explaining how they designed a new Apple product and used it to describe the new Shamrock shakes. The resemblance between those videos and the new McDonald's video is just uncanny....

[stylin19a]

I’m still pissed McDonald’s changed their coffee stirrers back in the day....

[1rudeboy]

for later

[deport]

McDonald’s is only making 2,000 of the limited-edition straws available at select locations for
one day in February and one day in March. While the straws are free, you will have to purchase
a Chocolate Shamrock Shake to receive one. The odds aren’t in your favor, so you’ll have to
plan in advance if you want any chance of scoring one

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I dare anyone to come up with something that was more fun than these were when I was a kid!

[central_va]

McD's had to stop using these because they were used as spoons for snorting blow.

[mrsmith]

“STRAW, which stands for Suction Tube for Reversal Axial Withdrawal”

If there is a Phd in acronymology, then whoever came up with this has one.

[Moltke]

They actually performed flow modeling and simulation with aerospace personnel to redesign the straw.

No, it's just a cute spoof video satirizing the Apple style. Well done, too.

[heterosupremacist]

SUCKING RE-DEFINED. ..

[roadcat]

I just made a facsimile straw.

1) Take a straw with a flexible neck and turn it upside down (I have lots around for the grandkids).
2) In several places on the short end of the “J”, bend it sideways and cut a small corner with a scissors.
3) Then bend the flexible neck, and cut a small slice with a scissors.
4) You can finish up with a drop of hot glue from a hot-glue gun to keep the “J” short piece vertical with the long section.