“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?
IKR! Especially since these are the same dimwits who demanded that we get rid of plastic and use paper instead.