[reaperducer]

Why does every drink need a straw, anyway?

For my wife, because it ruins her lipstick less than a lid with a hole in it.

I've heard some people say they do it because they think it reduces the effect of the soda/coffee/whatever staining their teeth.

I think it just increases consumption because you don't feel it filling your mouth as much as when you drink from the rim of a cup.

[bemusedthrow75]

Drinking the kind of "coffee" that needs a straw already makes one a soulless monster, though ;-)

The ethics of straws just won't move the needle.

I mean this only mostly in jest. Iced coffee drinks really are to me a particular indicator of overconsumption.