[AnotherUnixGeek]

Paper Drinking Straws May Be Harmful to Health and Worse for the Environment Than Plastic Versions

More importantly, they're gross. Nothing like reaching for a cold drink and getting a mouthful of paper pulp as the straw goes soggy. But hey, it's a small price to pay to soothe the neuroses of some environmentalists.

[Danie_2023]

“More importantly, they’re gross. Nothing like reaching for a cold drink and getting a mouthful of paper pulp as the straw goes soggy. But hey, it’s a small price to pay to soothe the neuroses of some environmentalists.”

But... aren’t those the same tree-hugging idiotic environmentalists that demanded that we move away from using paper to plastic?

[Jyotishi]

“getting a mouthful of paper pulp as the straw goes soggy”

They make great spitballs!