Unpopular opinion: Paper straws are shite and not fit for purpose

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  1. Ever since McDonald’s introduced paper straws it’s nearly impossible to finish your milkshake with them.

    Don’t know if it true or internet rumour that they can’t recycle paper straws only burn them and could recycle the plastic ones??

  2. Not when required to pierce foil. Otherwise they work fine. Mind you, hard to see why Capri sun bother. The foil’s not recyclable anyway.

  3. Dunno why they bothered with the straws when the pouches aren’t even recyclable.

    They have the cheek to put on the boxes “We aim to make the pouches recyclable asap” but it’s been on there for ages.

    I don’t get them btw, weird housemate does.

  4. The knock off ones from aldi tropical flavour ice cold in vodka or malibu… thank me later

    The paper straws are shit

  5. That’s a very popular opinion! Especially when you have a Mc Donalds milkshake and the whole straw disintegrates half way through!

  6. Capri Sun were great in school, once you finished them you could inflate them and if you stamped on them really hard they made an incredible bang. Way better than lidl apple juice or the other ones in tetra paks.

  7. Paper straws are everything wrong with this world.

    It’s all a big self-agrandising display which makes a brand/company/person look like they are doing something without actually achieving anything except causing us all to suffer.

    The idea that paper straws are saving the environment is absolutely ludacris, especially when the remaining 95% of that beverage’s packaging is made of plastic.

  8. The coffee chains also like to put their cold beverages in a plastic cup with a plastic dome then give you a paper straw. They should just put them in the same paper ones they use for the hot drinks if they actually gave a shite about the environment.

  9. Plastic straws are also very recyclable.

    One viral video of a turtle with electrical tubing in his nose and everyone loses their mind.

  10. Before I got 3 wisdom teeth out last December an auld lad I knew told me to get metal straws from tiger because his kids had got them for him.

    Swear by them now, feck all other straws, forget the wood ones or the plastic ones just buy 1 pack of the metal straws and your sorted.

  11. Omg. I know, they’re actually shite. If I go into supermacs, order a large coke, I’ll take it home. But by the time I go to drink it, the straw disintegrated. I hate paper straws

  12. Unpopular opinion is going to be my one.
    I have no problem with paper straws 😂

    Except of course on a Capri sun, those fucking yokes can’t even pierce the pouch. What the fuck…

  13. They are terrible, at the cinema I have to ask for extra straws as they just don’t last at all. The thing is though I have had good paper straws that last a long time, tge problem is most chain’s buy the cheap ones that break apart in seconds.

  14. At this stage why can’t we just forget straws and adopt some kind of disposable Tommy tippe type of cup. Back to basics. Yes there will be times where you spill a full tommy down the neck of your jumper. But we’ll just have to finish having our tantrum and dry ourselves off and get another drink.

  15. Get a scissor, cut the corner, if not don’t drink it, its pure crap anyways, most people only like it for nostalgia reasons and beside real orange juice doesn’t taste THAT sugary as capri sun so probs not good for you anyways

  16. For most cases, you don’t need a straw. Pour the damn drink into a cup or a glass. or for small cartons, just drink it from the box.

  17. The whole plastic straw debacle was devised to shift blame away from the real ocean pollutant: commercial fishing nets.
    I shit you not, the source of the claims about plastic straws comes from a 9 year’s old’s Boy Scouts of America project.

  18. That looks better than the Capri Suns we have over here. It just looks more appealing. Cleaner, nicer. Probably not full of any American crap that’s illegal to put in food in 50 or so countries.

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