Please do not drink coffee with that tiny little red/black stirring rod

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i didn't think stirring sticks for coffee were capable of being used as a straw. i know stir sticks for mixed drinks can be, but i thought coffee stir sticks were solid.

Originally posted by: LoKe
Negative. There are two hollow "straw" type things on things on the sides. o_o is what it looks like from top down. But it's too small of a diameter for sucking...I've heard that before.

gonna call you on that. i have seen wooden coffee stirrers before and they weren't hollow.

depends on where you go. at the campus coffee joints, they use wooden sticks. but at many places I've seen little straws, and I've seen two varieties.. little cocktail-style straws, red and very thin with only one tube.. and the kind that Loke describes, that has 2 tubes running parallel.
meh, when I was a kid I would use those little straws for my extra sweet coffee whenever I went somewhere with my folks that had a coffee pot. Or for my hot cocoa, mostly because I was impatient and I could drink some with the straw, just enough to taste but not enough to burn. That and I could get to the tastiest part of the cocoa as everything always settled. and those little straw stirrer things are never good enough to actually stir.
i love the wood stirring sticks. but the ones I've seen are not even tube-like, mostly flat, almost like popsicle sticks but longer and a little more flimsy.

 

[Chaotic42]

Those stir stick things are horrible at stirring coffee. They should make them thin and flat.

 

[gsethi]

They serve a purpose. I use them initially to see how hot my coffee is (atleast my tongue doesnt gets burnt that way) and if I need more sugar/creamer in my coffee. But yeah, i dont use them to finish my coffee, just use that stirring straw initially couple of times to sense the heat and get the flavor right.

and I do agree that they do a very bad job of stirring. I generally have to use 2-3 of those stirrers together for them to do anything.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Yes, this annoys me, especially when the face that's associated with trying desperately to suck up the minute amount of liquid by exerting an extremely high pressure drop. You're not a fish, use a regular straw, or has it ever occurred to you to just drink out of the cup?

WTF???

Next you're going to tell me that you don't eat candy bars with a fork and knife. :|

 

[ultimatebob]

If I had 20 of them bundled together, that would make a pretty decent straw! I think that I'll try that the next time I'm at Starbucks!

 

[sniperruff]

man if i am jerry seinfeld this would have been one episode's material!

 

[sandorski]

What about the White and Brown ones? You ok with them?


They have channels inside that allow liquid to pass through, but those channels are not there for that purpose. They are there to add strength and minimize the amount of plastic used. The things are frickin useless though. Sometimes, people suck on these sticks to remove the little bit of coffee(or other beverage) on the inside. It's mainly to prevent a mess when you set the stick down on a counter, as there's enough liquid inside to create a sticky mess.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The reason it's a small hole is because it's HOT stuff. They don't want to make the hole as big as a regular straw so when you suck the coffee up you burn yourself and you sue them like the McDonalds lady. If they wanted you to not use it as a straw at all it would be solid. People use straws because it prevents coffee stains on your teeth and tooth decay. It's a bad habit, but I know people who care about their teeth use straws all the time. For the rest of you uncultured guys you don't HAVE to use a straw, but don't pick on those who do.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i didn't think stirring sticks for coffee were capable of being used as a straw. i know stir sticks for mixed drinks can be, but i thought coffee stir sticks were solid.

Originally posted by: LoKe
Negative. There are two hollow "straw" type things on things on the sides. o_o is what it looks like from top down. But it's too small of a diameter for sucking...I've heard that before.

gonna call you on that. i have seen wooden coffee stirrers before and they weren't hollow.

Is there any connection between sucking a narrow straw and getting a pearl necklace?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
The reason it's a small hole is because it's HOT stuff. They don't want to make the hole as big as a regular straw so when you suck the coffee up you burn yourself and you sue them like the McDonalds lady. If they wanted you to not use it as a straw at all it would be solid. People use straws because it prevents coffee stains on your teeth and tooth decay. It's a bad habit, but I know people who care about their teeth use straws all the time. For the rest of you uncultured guys you don't HAVE to use a straw, but don't pick on those who do.

It's not a straw!

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: sandorski
It's not a straw!

It is whatever you use it as.

 

[MyThirdEye]

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[irishScott]

So I grab 10 of them, wrap a rubber band around them, and make a fricken mega-straw. What now? :evil:

 

[0roo0roo]

i go to places like starbucks because they give you a real straw
people only resort to the stirer if theres no choice. trying to drink from the lid sucks, its a risk if the lid pops off while you are driving thats so very uncool. slightly better now that everyones using the starbucks style lids. in the past mcdonalds/7/11 lids were those flimsy pieces of trash with a rip open flap that was a bit absurd to drink from even if you weren't driving.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
For the rest of you uncultured guys you don't HAVE to use a straw, but don't pick on those who do.

This is just the beginning. We're gonna get their lunch money and mess up their hair too.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i go to places like starbucks because they give you a real straw
people only resort to the stirer if theres no choice. trying to drink from the lid sucks, its a risk if the lid pops off while you are driving thats so very uncool. slightly better now that everyones using the starbucks style lids. in the past mcdonalds/7/11 lids were those flimsy pieces of trash with a rip open flap that was a bit absurd to drink from even if you weren't driving.

Hot coffee on crotch while driving sucks.