I'm Deema and as you know people are ditching plastic straws. So I'm here at
Busboys and poets to try out some alternatives with some friends.
Straw cheers
yes
okay so it made my straw really cold.
yeah
Did it make your really hot?
At first it wasn't really hot and then I got really hot. The straw itself got hot.
Got hot? okay.
Yeah, because of the temperature increase I probably do a
seven. I like it because it's convenient and it's reusable, but I don't really I
don't know about prolonged usage of the hot drinks.
seven. Yeah, seven.
Ready? I've been high-fiving straws. okay we're ready. Alright let's go.
I don't taste any difference from a different straw, you know. Yeah and we're
not killing any sea turtles, again. We're not killing any sea turtles, success!
7-8, because of the color.
Because of the color yeah.
yeah everything else is just the same to me.
I would give this an eight. I'm gonna give this an eight but
I'm also going to...can we come back to it and stick it in something hot? Because I want
to see if it unravels like the other ones do, because that would HIGHLY
determine my rating scale.
This is my problem with the paper it's just like
so soft being in the hot one like I mean that's--that's just like not--that's not
gonna last you. Yeah I don't think it's like the best one to go with.
Alright next up we have bamboo. Okay! I'm super excited. This is like what I've been really
wanting to try. okay I'm pretty sure that's not the straw. I think it's the big one
I think it's the big one. This maybe is a cleaner. Oh yeah oh I think that might be
like a little--oh my god. This is yeah this is already my favorite. First of all
this packing, like packaging is so cute because you can actually put this in
your purse. The small one works better with the hotter drink. Okay I'm gonna try
the medium
I cannot drink out of-- yeah I don't think the medium will work.
I'd give it a high ranking between somewhere between eight and ten. I like it for
actual function the smaller one for drinking just normal drinks stays up
there and five or six it worked and I can imagine that the large one for
smoothies would get a high score, but again just that idea and I'm gonna clean
it with this all the time by myself in the sink. Home use? Not so great.
Restaurant use? I'm like, "how are they cleaning this?" Yeah. I would give about a
9. I like it. The bamboo little like taste even though there was like a
taste to it, I feel for some reason it's cleaner than the metal. Yes. Like I feel
cleaner. But I do really like the kit. Yeah awesome in a stocking. It's cool.
mm-hmm. so this probably my best, my best one so far.
We are going to chemistry
class with the glass straw that definitely throws me back like it's a
test tube, which is already weirding me out a little bit. It's also very large so
it's kind of reminding me of the bamboo, like the large bamboo one, okay. And we're
gonna go coffee first.
I feel like I'm in like chemistry class and I like stole a test tube to go
like drink coffee out of. Its weird.
That's just weird. I don't know how I feel about--I don't know if I like it it.
It's like large in your mouth but it I just I can't get over the chemistry
thing. I'll give it like a seven, because I feel
like it's thick enough for probably wouldn't break and I mean it doesn't have
any type of flavor to it and doesn't alter the taste of anything
and it doesn't get hot or cold, so I think it beats--for me it beats the metal
to be quite honest.
Top winner would be *drumroll*
Bamboo
Thank you to everybody at Busboys
and Poets and all of our friends for allowing us to come try some alternative
straws, so find which one works for you and help save the environment.