When Fast Food Restaurants Switch To Paper Straws 

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bro what the frick are you doing here?

Paper straws make terrible pet reptiles - you're wasting your time here.

So the “women will want to sleep with you” didn’t work? What are you, some kind of gay?

You need to Dill with that urge.

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Imagine a straw made of toilet paper, that stuff would have flown off the shelves if it were 2020

@@purplecat7878 Yuuuuuuuuuck

I refuse to use them. The other day my wife unwrapped a paper straw an put it in my drink. I glared at her as I immediately took it out. Surprise ...... 5 mins later she makes this hilarious face as her straw is disintegrating in her drink.

A good trick around that at restaurants that have those is just get a plastic stir stick straw that they put in cocktails, I just use those as my main straws, so I don’t swallow paper lol

@@purplecat7878 Or... now....

DevEstating spelling.

​@@Dr.Ian-PlectDevastatingly dickish pedantry.

activism.

Ever heard of tipping a motherfucking cup you fucking toddler?

People upvote this comment with a chuckle and then they go on twitter/facebook and change their profile picture into "support current thing" and think they're helping

Yeah, that one fell flat. It should have been: "...for the first time in over 2,000 years".

​@@XtremiTeezWe are all very concerned about the precise factual detail of this 4-minute RU-vid comedy sketch. Please continue to provide the highly valuable service of pointing out how obvious hyperbole is incorrect.

@@XtremiTeezit wasn’t ancient 2000 years ago so that’s implied

@@-Teague- "factual detail"? No. It's about comedy and joke writing. The joke fell flat because it wasn't written in a way that realizes its full, comedic potential.

@@iGaveLiaHIV but that doesn't clarify WHEN it is being touched by the sun for the first time. It's these little subtleties that are important in writing.

So do the straws if you make them properly. I've had no issues with them but maybe they're a different make, depending on where you live.

It's weird to me that we can make cups out of paper that don't get soggy and make your beverage taste like paper but not straws.

Even double walled ones for coffee.

Well don't put liquor in them they will leak.

Paper cups have waxed bottoms. Maybe they need to wax the paper straws. That might help the slow drinkers get to the end of their drink without the straw melting.

But why, though? Is it to distract from oil spills, smog, the well-oiled network of petrol stations, leaky pipelines poisoning ground water, fracking, and from renewable energy being much cheaper even without the subsidies that oil, gas, coal, and uranium receive? Is it to make it seem like the climate catastrophe is a matter of small personal choices rather than a global structural political issue that 99% of the population wouldn't have an impact on even collectively without first changing the underlying infrastructure of everyday life? Or is it an attempt by the paper industry to open new revenue streams now that they have increasing competition from.the hemp industry?

@@davidwuhrer6704 jesus christ thats a long comment

@@davidwuhrer6704 Just use thorium!

@@Laqiss We literally had the same first two words as a reaction to that paragraph 😂

@@davidwuhrer6704 You're entirely overthinking this: it's entirely about taking some issue X and making yourself out to be the good guy by doing action Y, which may or may not actually have an impact. Greenwashing is especially fun, as a number of "green" replacements end up worse for the environment than the non-"green" original.

He's such a heartless CEO! You should support local businesses such as food place!

I think the point is that you shouldn't be proud of him

The pickles haven't, though.

Well according to the obviously honest owner it makes women want to sleep with you so... ya

@@BlipFanatic how could i support Food Place, their pickles aren't even comparable. It's like food place uses some sketchy cucumbers or something

Yee

I hope you're not poking fun at another Ryan who stands in a green field in his marketing campaign. Cuz if you were, I would phone him immediately using my reliable, $30-a-month mobile service.

@@AxxLAfriku bro was spelling the name Rachel so hard that you could only say ra like some kind of low budget dinosaur

@@mrvoice3436 raaaaaaaa

"subtle"

Tip a motherfucking cup dumbass

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Like build a bear but less Creative

@@DarthScott exactly dudeee!!

A few decades ago they were clear cutting natural forests for use in paper. Nowadays almost all paper products are sourced from tree farms which are cut down and replanted after few years. Much more sustainable than before. Also we now have more data on the effects of micro plastics

@@matthewjohnson3656 Micro plastics make u gay

@@elias_xp95 (but have a 33% chance of giving you superpowers)

pepperige farm remembers, so they switched back to paper packaging

Then they gave us thicker plastic bags i guess so we'll hopefully reuse them

And grandma too

Are you his grandmother?

@@evancraftgc6271 No, but I was in the same hurricane and waved as she passed by. I think she landed in Oz!

Especially since we used to have Plastic Straws wrapped in Paper xD

Well, they need to keep the straws dry so they "work". 😂😂😂

mine is when you get a plastic cup with a paper straw

It’s actually cellophane, which is a corn product, but I totally agree.

@@enginepy So what I am hearing is cellophane straws?

You must have some metal straws with you at all times tho, right? They're much better and look cooler

Hope they shift to compostable mais plastic!

I knew someone who also needed straws and paper just wasn't cutting it for them. Wound up getting silicone and aluminum straws to bring with them wherever they went. Was lucky enough to have a dishwasher so re-using the straws was easy. But yeah, I'm finding out how often accessibility for the disabled is overlooked, in ways big and small. It really is high time that these things are considered when designing new things.

@@lenonel3286 I agree that they look cool and they are a lot better for the environment! Unfortunately, part of my condition is having muscle spasms that will cause me to bite down, which can be pretty painful with metal. I am trying really hard to find the best alternative because I'm a huge environmentalist but I also want to not get hurt when I'm trying to drink haha.

@@Musiqueen1 oh sorry, I didn't know about that part of it! Someone a few comments ago suggested silicone straws

And the best part is, the problem it's supposed to solve doesn't exist!

@@wasabista1613 exactly

@@wasabista1613 oh that's right! that carmen sandiego keeps stealing all that land ice in greenland. She's so dastardly! Personally i think Trump hired her to steal it, seeing how he tried to _buy_ greenland from denmark in 2017. seems sus to me, glad we voted him off the ship

@@davidtee5367 That land ice is still there. It was supposed to be all gone by 2018 but it's still there. None of the climate Chicken Littles' other predictions have come true, either. Manhattan isn't half submerged (supposed to happen by 2019), the Arctic isn't ice free (2018), the Maldives haven't sunk (2018), and by the way unseasonable cold just killed the coffee harvest in Brazil so your soy milk latte will cost you more this winter. But, hey, maybe it's time for another climate summit -- I can hear Al Gore and Lenny DiCaprio revving up their private jets now.

@@wasabista1613 Global cooling is caused by global warming. (sarcasm) Or is it. lol

Lol you can't make this shit up. Gotta keep those paper straws from degrading before people use them.

Glass Straws

@@Rigged10000 bamboo straws

@@OliveTreesa I've been to one restaurant where they had bamboo straws. Don't remember which one it was but it was certainly better than the paper ones

or I will coudl just ge tour own plastic straws

Well it is a pretty big pickle.

@CrypticCobra it’s not particularly large

​@@YourResidentPersonWhoDoesStuffbut not comically small

@@savageraccoon787 You wouldn't point and laugh at it

Hi man

But is it barely an inconvenience?

...whereas using three disasters is super easy, barely an inconvenience!

I know right! Guys like him make me lose faith in humanity! Like who cares?!!! If it were the first said OK, maybe the third of course, but the fourth goddammit people.

@@RobMedellin he took it too far

Which is made better by the fact that paper cups are commonly used in fast food restaurants.

@@DrWh1teCat Yes, and a *lot* of places that use paper straws also use plastic cups, and it’s such a weird disconnect.

Isn’t all coffee and paper cups to I don’t understand why a cold drink would be plastic if a hot drink can be held and paper

New paper cup You might want to drink a lot faster

@@DrWh1teCat Paper cups in fast food restaurants (especially those for coffee) do have a lining of plastic inside of them.

Did you use a paper straw to consume it beforehand? If not, Micheal pickleseller is better than you /s

@@davidgoldrock7264 nooooooo you beat me to it!

I want one of those sandwiches so badly.

Now I feel like a sandwich with a pretty big pickle in it

i just wanna say that i dont know you from anywhere but i love you and your profile pic

It’s been tracked pretty well. After a “women will want to sleep with you” advertising campaign, they went corporate.

Nah, they've become a sell out! I preferred when only a select few knew about it and they definitely couldn't make a living with it! 😤

Isnt that a burger?

@@gm2407 So your saying you order burgers that just have one pickle inside of them?

@@sperkyjerky Well when I make them at home Pickled Gherkins are one of the ingredients. I take one and cut it into strips. I also have chedder, lettus, onion, mustard, and tomatoes. Its lovely as a burger or sandwich.

Makes sense that the first guy ever to make a commercial would get a lot of profit.

As humble as telling people that eating the stuff gets girls to have sex withyou, like a lot?

We cant make good paper straws but we can make paper cups that work somehow

@@erikburzinski8248 but we're not gonna switch to the working cups and instead make everyone use our awful straws. We're the real heroes here.

@@erikburzinski8248 It's the waxy coating that makes paper cups work. I imagine it's a pain to apply that to the inside of a straw, so we get garbage instead.

I'd rather the cup be paper instead of the straw. I don't have to put my mouth on the cup.

@Annas R Zulficar it's paper with a plastic layer inside the cup, so the beverage would not soak the paper. It's actually worst than a pure plastic cup because you can't recycle it.

that this is a completely made up issue that has literally been going on for the last 100 years? yeah it really does say it all.

@@ildix it's not plastic, it's wax. has been for over 60 years.

LoL

I've tried that before... it's such an amazing experience!!

Problem is fast food company paper cups don't have enough structural integrity without their lids, so poking a straw through the lid was the solution.

@@Milamberinx Poking a Hole through the lid is Tight !! Super Easy, Barely an inconvenience !!

"how her parents used to drink straight from the glass" I can only assume that was in the days before cars and fast food.

Also, with the plastic ones, everyone hates me, my car won't start and I get fired from my job! Whereas drinking from the paper straws makes me popular, causes me to win the lottery somehow and I lost 50 pounds!

This reminds me. There are those kind of cookie straw thingys i think.

@Muscleman8562 cringe

I remember when restaurants switched from paper straws to plastic.

Buy a bunch of those sour straws from 7/11 and use those. Problem solved. You can have a sour blue raspberry treat after you finish your coke.

@Muscleman8562 i can promise you noone gives a shit

Well you see, they're like a penny more so (11 bucks for a 100 count of vegetable straws, 23 bucks for ONE THOUSAND PACK) okay I wrote the penny more thing as a joke but apparently it really is 5-1. Billion dollar companies just have no money to spare compared to local places without the resources of a literally global super corporation. ALTERNATE THEORY: Corpos don't like changing when it means profit loss, so they intentionally looked for the worst-of-all-worlds solution so consumers would reluctantly say 'we're hypocrites. We'd rather have better straws that murder turtles than save the environment'. That being said I will buy those plant-based straws because they sound cool

Because they want to convince people there good

I like your profile pic.

why? because they're working on something even better so costumers won't have to spit out the drink along with paper every time they try to take a sip Edit: I haven't even heard in 15 years of my life a single person using or even talking about a straw being made of paper so is it a new thing? because it'd make sense because 2020 and 2021 are the years of stupidity I'd call 2020-2051 the age of the Zombies because everyone was so braindead and lazy they couldn't even bother spelling things correctly and not being in a country where people actively speak English being their excuse heck I'm not from those countries and look at me even though sometimes I make mistakes I don't ignore them like a 6 year old I either learn not to do that or get help from the internet to correct them first step is to watch what you're writing make sure you didn't screw it up step two... well... if you're interested you should google it I'm not a teacher I can't make this seem fun I'm not Mat Pat

Muscleman8562 why r u self promoting on a comment with 25 likes

Are they still around? Huh.

Not really. In my country they had ad campaing with young people and youtubers like half year back.

@@powdereyes2210 how the hell did u go to straw to an English professor and this is the internet as long as someone can understand us we dnt need to correct

it's funny because it's true

And the fact that China and India are the worst offenders and do nothing about it

@@JW-tq2rl and those leftists don't care and most of the time even "protect"/"defend" them...

@@JW-tq2rl true, noone should try to improve anything as long as there are worse things

@@Gadottinho WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

And the paper straws because of how bad they are.

The ones I've seen come in paper wrappers, just like the plastic straws used to. But I definitely prefer the sippy cup style lids over dissolving straws...

Paper straws are just a cover up for the bigger problem... turtles that are addicted to cocaine. That's how they get the straws stuck in their noses. Big Straw doesn't want people to know that they are enabling the turtles addictions and therefore switched to paper straws that are completely useless under water in an effort to force the turtles to quit cold turkey instead of sending them to rehab because that would cost them more and affect their profit margin.

@@azombie8mybabythis is great

I received a paper straw for the first time last week and I'm pretty sure it even ruined popsicles for me as the straws pretty much taste the same as a wooden popsicle stick you're sucking on for 45 minutes.

The problem is, they already solved the paper straw issues, since paper cups exist and worked okay. They just need to incorporate the waxy sealing to the inside and outside of the paper straw, so it's useful for twenty minutes while being used.

@@KaizerKilborn this only means that Big Straw is now in cahoots with Big Wax in an attempt to set events into motion that will leave us all open to a global assault and the fall of all organized government as the Bees take control of the planet. By this time next year, you and everyone you know will be speaking Bee.

pickle juice. they have pickle juice. 3 varieties. regular, sweetened, and with caffeine (mountain Pickle)

You're forgetting diet Moutain Pickle, and Mountain Pickle zero sugar.

How have I never heard of this company?! I need a sandwich with a pretty big pickle in it butt try I already ate my lunch money

SANDWICH WITH A PRETTY BIG PICKLE IN IT PRESENTS A CUP WITH A PRETTY BIG VOLUME OF PICKLE JUICE IN IT!!!

"Pretty big pickle slurpies"? Gawd, I'm sure 'someone from marketing' is already latching onto this....

After losing a couple of stainless steel straws (by leaving them behind in restaurants), I've resorted to drinking directly from the cup. Not sure what guys with mustaches like the Ryans will do. Wish they would make a lid that is similar to the ones for coffee cups. Environment not saved.

That's.. honest

This is a conspiracy by Cocacola to get people to buy their bottles, cocacola is the #1 plastic polluter in the planet

I know, right? Only other RU-vidr so good with words is Charles White.

Fresh slice pizza has sippy lids for pop. Solves the problem and saves then money.

So... what was his intent?

What's the reference from?

@@SerenityFeueropal He means that because pop cups give you paper straws, he wants a coffee cup so he can drink it like how he drinks coffee instead.

@@shaereub4450 No reference. I heard someone ordered soda in a coffee cup and immediately realized he didnt want to deal with the paper straw.

I laughed out loud in RealLife™

Its certainly up there, thats for sure I'm certain.

Lol

I mean, he did lie about the whole “if you buy it, women will want to sleep with you” thing.

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@@johnnyphesto1247 I don't know. I ate two of his sandwiches and I'm married now. Seems to work. Are you eating it from the middle out?

@@johnnyphesto1247 I think you're trying with the wrong women cause the women I meet loved the pickle

It’s heartwarming to see.

Covid has been kind to Michael Pickleseller

I hope he makes a collaboration company with food place to make the best food there could possibly be!

@Joshua Roehl Shame on you for trying to hijack another person's comment section for your incredibly bad song.

Oh my god!! I didn't think I would get this many likes! Thank you everyone 😁

It never doesn't work

@@Money4Nothing so it works?

Eloquent and elegant -- to the point.

I just went to the theater the other day and when they gave us our 2 drinks, they gave us 4 straws. I just thought it was odd, then halfway through the movie I realized why 😀

That was literally the entire point of the paper straw campaign.

deciding to call it "climate change" was the single biggest step backward though

@@rumfordc , excellent point!

Well, it was 10 years in the 70s, 10 years in the 80s, 10 years in the 90s, 10 years in the 00s, Florida was supposed to be gone 12 years ago, and that’s not even mentioning how we went from “ice age” to “global warming” to “climate change”.

Back in the 90’s, we were sternly told never to use disposable paper products because it would destroy the environment. They told us to use plastic instead. You ever get the feeling that it’s all bullshit?

What makes you think that it’s cheaper?

@@johnjekyllson28 it's a grass, it's literally a hollow grass with straw size, no complicated step for making it like paper or plastic,

Dried grass stems were the original things that got called straw. The world has come full circle.

@@johnjekyllson28 everything they said PLUS you don’t have to pay to get rid of it or deal with the weird shit it turns into (no micro plastics, no beach litter, no turtles 🐢 with straws jammed up their nose)

@@muhammadfazlurrahman4929 Grass that has to be grown, harvested, and cut. Granted, if that were all mechanized it could possibly be cheaper, perhaps.

Like that time he hired a scientist to prove that ingesting his products makes women want ot sleep with you, I can confirm it is in fact true! I trust the man, what can I say?

@UCMUHRxAp9s-wwoJgRamVTxg r/iamverybadass

Well…remember after a few unsuccessful ad campaigns he finally realized that telling people if they eat his sandwich girls will want to sleep with worked like a charm.

@@jeycee32 ye best commercual that made the company succesful

@@jeycee32 man u sound like michael picleseller was lying or something i have to say i dont agree nor my harem of 4 girl and 1 boy

Then there's compostable plastic straws that is a thing. But because they are more expensive than normal straws, restaurants don't give you those. They want to look good, but still be greedy as hell.

Do you just keep it in your pocket?

You sound like an environmentally friendly psycopath.

Yes I’m glad someone has said about these straws their so good. No one talks about them and I legit thought that my family were the only people to use them

@@morrownow you sound like you hate people trying to help the planet cuz you feel bad that you’re too selfish to do anything

No no no. The sponsor will also provide a minimal response to climate action. You can't fight a metric tonne of oil being burned every hour with a bunch of trees that will grow over the period of 60+ years. Talking to politicians and local representatives and telling them to stop with fossil fuels is what is going to get us to be carbon neutral 😐. Planting trees is a great side project but far far from the solution.

@@8lec_R so you think you can trust politicians to make decisions to impact environment ? Also, do you have any quantitative and qualitative data that suggest petroleum is heavily impacting our environment ? Or that you doing something about it will change ? Planting tree is actually better than trying to stop oil industry. Also, do you even think about the impact that will have on humanity ? It’s nice to have a phone/computer using electricity in the comfort of your home typing nonsense on RU-vid video

@@timeflowEqualquin talking to politicans is SUPER EFFECTIVE. They're GREAT listeners

@@timeflowEqualquin yes. Louis Rossman has managed to get a lot of success in the right to repair space by talking to MPs and such. No I don't trust them (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean), but they are humans capable of understanding stuff, and it's frankly too stupid to let this opportunity go. As for the evidence you're asking, just read the IPCC report. You'll see how much emissions are produced. Then compare that to amount of carbon sequestered by a tree over it's lifespan. Also you need to tend to the tree. You cannot just expect to plant it and leave it, most will die before they even get big enough to make an impact

@@moscreefus they are if you give them lots of money. Actually they will do anything you want for lots of money. Like knowingly selling a product that is addictive and causes cancer

Unless my mouth is a straw then I gotta disagree with you on this one bud

You mean cups exist?

I actually don’t use straws. :). … it got on my ex girlfriends nerves.

@@Hope-ux4dx Nope. Disgusting

@@TheRatsintheWalls Getting those last few inches in is TIGHT!

@Scom Tott ALL HAIL

A lot of 6-year olds are seriously smarter than a lot of us 60+ year olds (myself included). Their creativity & imagination must be encouraged - always. Just suggestin'.

@@daveroche6522 I encourage it for sure! Both my girls put bits of pickle on their homemade pizza every time. They are too cute.

@@randoria284 Randoria - too cute? Do you mean the gals or the pickles/pizzas? I'm VERY puzzled (if my youngest read this, she'd say "DAAAAAD - you COB!!!"). For the record, C.O.B. in naval terms refers to "Chief Of the Boat", whereas since she was 8, our Aisling always referred/refers to me as "Crazy Old Bastard", which always (and still) made/makes me laugh. Fun, innit? If we can laugh at ourselves I believe it's a sign we're ok. Take care - no stupid risks, please.

you mean it's the CEO of that company !

That's good branding.

I mean, we all wanted to know how he was doing, obviously.

That's my honest opinion tho. I've never had a problem with paper straws

@@LadyDragonbane In my experience they both effect the taste of the drink, and literally decompose while your drinking out of them. I hate them

Michael Stevens?

Lego Movie 2?

@@SynoPTL *DING DING DING DING*

"This is deeply soggy, an extreme inconvenience"

Needs a ,

What could go wrong??

@@hyljix no it doesn't

@@exothermic1942 after "liquid" it's needed. Otherwise it would be read as "liquid out"