Are These Weird Drinking Straws Any Good? 🤷🏼
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2022
- In order to be more eco-friendly, the world is starting to steer away from plastic and straws are one of the main things people are trying to find replacements for. Today I tried a few different options (Agave, wheat, pasta, and bamboo) to see which ones are the best alternatives.
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Спасибо тебе за отказ от пластиковых трубочек. Для своего домашнего бара я выбрал металлические трубочки
That my friend is a tortoise.
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Bamboo 🎍 straws are amazing
Bro do something with melon my fav 😍
Imagine drinking your beverage then slurping your spaghetti straw like a closing snack
Yes, how else would it be?
@@1MadJack1 what did she do lol
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@@Jade-ux1kd its a bot lol
@@1MadJack1 ohhh
I can’t even imagine drinking a cocktail and suddenly my straw is just a noodle
@Queen Naditta💖💖 I forgot the part where I asked
I've been to a place with pasta straws, the straws never went limp but they did develop a soft layer you could scrape off with your teeth and I always ended up crunching the straw after the drink
The bars in our town all switched to very thick pasta straws, they last for at least an hour and I never had them go soggy. I have yet to find out where they get them tho, they are I'd say 2-3mm in strength
A drink with a free snack!
Flavoured too!
Best thing about bamboo straws is that they’re incredibly easy to manufacture, because when in the right climate, bamboo grows at a terrifying rate. As in, if you stay quiet in a bamboo forest, you can literally hear the bamboo stalks grow around you, they grow that quick. Oh and they’re biodegradable, that’s also a plus.
YOU CAN HEAR IT GROW?
@@flazerrazer2992 Yes.
@@decimation9780 grow like a feet in a day
Japanese soldiers used to tie people up above bamboo saplings, they grow for hours and pierce the body of whoever is unfortunate enough to be tied above that slowly and EXTREMELY painfully, they die like a day after that suffering the entire time.
@@Asurot that's a bit of an exaggeration, but they do grow really fast
I’ll drink out of anything other than those terrible paper strays.
Strays
Straws*
"I love turtles"
Shows clip of tortoise
Both turtles, just not sea turtles lol
@@baldthecodest3295 are you certain? Cz I've always known it as turtoise.
@@charbelalam2648 most land turtles are tortoises, to put it a little simpler, all tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises
@@baldthecodest3295 tortoises are not turtles they’re just closely related and similar
@@killianmiles1516 Tortoises are land animals that commonly live in deserts, I have one. Turtles are water animals, there are salt and fresh water varieties.
"What's not easy to break is a bamboo straw" "mMmMMMmmHhHhH"
😩😫
bambo straws
bruh i failed nnn instantly when he said that
@@oaskyreal AYO?
@@oaskyreal what is you sayin brotha 🤨
" No more plastic straws wrapped in paper just paper straws wrapped in plastic, congratulations." Tom Macdonald.
Unironically quoting Tom Macdonald is a bold call.
Bamboo is really an underrated renewable resource. It grows incredibly fast and incredibly sustainably, and it has a ton of unique utilitarian properties.
"Just drink it with your mouth " - Sun Tzu
You get my monthly like. Good job.
He already explained on one shorts why you use straws and not straight up drink it.
I know
Confucius actually. Well known for saying obvious things
Drinking from a straw makes it so the liquid enters the mouth more slowly which makes the alcohol taste different. The "just use your mouth" analogy should be for soft drinks mostly.
The paper straws I’ve had in a few instances always get soggy and break just like that, I’d love to use bamboo ones
The paper straw always gets soggy after like 20 min, which is annoying if you don't wanna rush
It sucks that we've *really* haven't found any good alternatives to plastic straws.
@@yocapo32 We have but companies are cheap
@@ShatteredGlass916 all the experiences I've had with paper straws that either break before they can get through the plastic Lids that are still around or they get in and then they instantly get soggy in less than a minute.
@@GinkgoPete yeah it's hard to compete for a fast food franchise the Pennies on the dollar a old plastic straw has compared to any of the other Alternatives besides crap paper.
Brought a 500 hundred pack of plastic straws to tell us to not buy plastic straws 😂
I bet he has thousands of these and actually doesn't care about these shitty straws
Bamboo and agave straws seem like a really good use for them. A pizzeria near my house has started using agave straws in their drinks. Even a breakfast restaurant near me even started doing this!
Being deathly allergic to wheat, I'm now terrified of straws 🤣
Steel would be the way to go for you.
@@Sovereignty3 *accidentally trips while drinking*
...
*ded*
Allergic to wheat? Poor guy,you're missing out on so much.
@@Sovereignty3 Hell no, that sounds like absolute torture and discomfort on your teeth, not to mention it being a bit dangerous
@@hmm396 u bite ur straw?
"Well, I love turtles"
Proceeds to feed a tortoise
Which is a type of turtle. All tortoises are turtles. But not all turtles are tortoises.
@@jkjulia2405 wait whaaaaa!??
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
@@jkjulia2405 tf? Tortoises are on land and turtles aquatic, how are tortoises a type of turtles
@@n.c.pictures Turtles are the bigger group. Inside that group there are three smaller groups: turtles, tortoises, and terrapins. And not all turtles are aquatic, there are exceptions like box turtles that live mainly on land.
Just from the first glance I got in this video, I think the agave fiber and bamboo straws would be my top picks for plastic/paper straw alternatives!
"I also got rid of these torture instruments"
Buys a new pack of plastic straws just to hit it with a bat in a video
People act like straws are the only thing turtles choke on 💀
No they don't it's just a really prelivent one that could be easily changed
people act like saying this is an argument not to reduce one of the things turtles choke on, let alone general plastic in the environment
But he is right, turtles get chocked by fishing net not straw
@@zzzzzz9089 there's one video of a straw in a turtles nose it's not very prevalent at all. Getting rid of plastic straws is a good thing but this should not be the reason
At least take a step each time
“I love turtles.” As he feeds a tortoise.
🤓
he can love a turtle while feeding a tortoise. or maybe turtle fitted a microphone in the room and Vlad knows it.
Actually a tortoise is a type of turtle
@@fluffacep I was about to give a detailed explanation as to why that’s incorrect but you’re right, all tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises, you taught me something today
Same shit
Oli spills occur weekly but at least the turtle will eat a plastic bag instead of a plastic straw.
“I love turtles” Prob killed by buying that pack of straws that he hit with using that bat
Vlad: Hates plastic straws and advocates a ban on it.
Also Vlad: buys a pack of plastic straws to make his point.
The people trying to tell you how to live are always hypocrites themselves
Without double standards there would be no standards at all
He could use em for diy XD
Buying a pack and not using it. Helping the cause 😅
@@sirpibble the pack was allready made and In the store. He brought it and now it will prob sit in a cupboard not polluting anything. So how is he a hypocrite mate
@@zzzzzz9089 The whole plastic straw pollution idea was mostly hyperbole anyhow.
Vlad breaking pasta straw: ahh damn!
Italians nearby : *I sense disturbance in the force....*
martini pasta 🍝
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Pasta la Vista
Good one!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I'd take any straw that's not paper
As a wise man once said, the size of the straw does not matter
Me drinking without a straw: my goals are beyond your understanding.
Me not drinking:IM SMARTER IM FASTER….IM BETTER…..I AM BETTER
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤞
@@myyoutubechannel7912 bro, you gonna get dehydrated
@@myyoutubechannel7912 me dead: ⚰🪦⚰️⚱️
@@myyoutubechannel7912 I'm thirsty....
imagine going to the weat field to collect a straw for your drink
Watch out for the chemicals.
I'm guessing that's the original straw and wher the word straw comes from.
@@HopeRock425 in german they are literally called "Strohhalme" which translates to "Strawstem"
Or a bambu forest
I believe that's why it's called a straw.
According to Google, bambo grows around 2 feet a day, so you could grow 4 bambo drinking straws a day, oer plant, while decorating your bar with plants, weve heard of growing your own garnishes now lets grow our own drinking straws
Everyone with celiac disease seeing the wheat straws are dying inside now. 😂 Namely myself.
Sometimes the bamboo straws will crack if it’s left in the drink too long. But I love the bamboo straws too !
Ah there's the downside but they're still probably the best alternative to plastic.
@@CowKirbo Hey, but they still last a good well and are nice, I like them still! lol
"I love turtles"
Shows a tortoise
All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises
@@tominieminen66 shut up
@@tominieminen66 fax
@@tominieminen66 just like all squares are rectangles but not the other way
Crazy right
I think the best replacement for plastic straws is that like bamboo plastic straws that are used at some Starbucks locations they made entirely out of bamboo, but they feel like plastic straws. You don’t break and it’s just generally better because they’re all the same size and it’s basically just a plastic straw made of bamboo.
But in bamboo straw you need a large suction force owing to the large diameter
Imagine you're on a dark alley and Vlad comes at you smiling while rotating his bat and says: "I've heard you've been ordering really annoying-to-make cocktails at peak hours. How about we make a smoothie out of your kneecaps?"
Agave straws are personally my favorite plastic straw alternative. I first came across them this year with I went on a trip to Miami and literally every bar and restaurant was using them. By the time we were leaving I couldn’t stop wondering with my friends why everywhere else still uses paper straws and other weak alternatives when these exist and work so perfectly
Same here when I went to Miami. I even kept an extra straw as a souvenir
We need bamboo straws. Those are definitely the best
Wasn't expecting an actual turtle. Also, they use those pasta straws in Italy, not kidding
"i love turtles"
feeds a tortoise
ah yes
I’m glad someone said it!!
Isn't it the same-
@@_-fallegvenus-_4801 no turtles live in water and tortoises live on land
@@arandomcat9647 the translation in my language is the same so to me it's all the same...
@@_-fallegvenus-_4801 so do you just day turtles with legs when you see a tortoise?
Bamboo seems like it will eventually become much cheaper. Plus it's reusable and cleanable, and if someone breaks one big deal.
But giant pandas are in danger because of people cutting down bamboo and the giant panda eats 80 pounds of bamboo
@@homevideos5902 yeah, but theres already so few pandas left that there should be plenty for them
@@homevideos5902 bamboo grow so quick, some part of the world considers it to be an invasive species. Also, Panda is retarded, they will die even with all the help in the world.
They grow insanely fast
@@homevideos5902 Farm it
'i love turtles'
*Proceeds to show a tortoise 🤣
Bro said I hate plastic straws then bought a pack of them to say that more intensely
Don't switch from plastic straws and think you're making a difference if you still eat seafood, and don't let companies tell you that you are the problem
People don't use plastic straws, mean while companies destroy the planet using us as stupid sheeps
bamboo always finna come in clutch
Bamboo straws, bamboo clothes, bamboo bamboo bamboo
What does "finna" mean?
@@Joe-Z Finna means fixing to. Finna is an internet slang term that indicates that one is getting ready to do something in the near future. This is what the first search result shown.
@@crazyadam9281 so for example, "I'm finna to do this." Would just simply be, "I'm going to do this."
@@Joe-Z finna to do, drop the to
Celebrities are flying their private jet to the grocery store, while I gotta deal with either hella expensive plastic alternatives, or god awful paper straws. We truly live in the most cursed timeline
“Hey can I get a straw?”
“Oh yeah sure **brings out an entire sewer pipe**”
You can have just one sip
@@jk-nj6yo "only a sipful"
*brings out comically large straw*
Quite a shitty drink
Bamboo trees grow hella quick. I think it's on the sweet spot of durability, clean source and production, and biodegradability.
Bamboo is also an invasive plant in certain areas, so using them is a pretty good idea.
So a little heads up on the agave fiber straws, some have plastics in them to keep the shape
So biodegradable!
Microplastics 🤤🤤🤤
What’s the point then?
I mean I know some plastic is better that a whole plastic straw but if someone is creating alternatives then why not go all the way?
I mean I know why, money but still. It’s such a dumb answer and I’m tired of companies hiding behind profits to justify everything.
Just use Bamboo bruh, it's literally a god's gift to humanity.
I looked it up and only found like 2 companies that have plastic in the agave straws. Whats the source? I'd like to know which straws have plastic.
aww the tortoise at the beginning was super cute! 💗💗
Bamboo straws:
So you can slurp that super-smoothie through the grass you blended into it
Bamboo also grows insanely fast so it is kind of perfect really
Everything is better, than a paper straw... Really, really hate those...
any straw is acceptable as long as its not paper
"well not easily to break are bamboo straw"
"aughh😩"
Me watching my straw dissolve into my soda as sea turtles contribute nothing to human survival
Equally it's not even about what the straws are made out of, it's their shape, if the nose hole is big enough then it will still have the potential to lodge there.
They could get a fucking twig stuck up there but you don't see us banning small twigs. It's always been about how we dump and handle refuse. Paper straws have cancerous shit on them. All we did is change which animal gets sick from straws.
Me drinking my drink when I realize I'm allergic to the weat straw
Me too!
Came here for this. Suddenly my tequila sunrise is a permanent sunset
the straw doesn't have any gluten in it. jeez
@@MightyGachiman one of the streams is made out of weat
Straws
The agave ones broke from the side easily too, one of my oaxaqueño restaurant that I love use them for the drinks and if you aren’t careful the “sides” will break and you will either need to put your fingers in the broken side so the air doesn’t escape from them, flip it until the broken part gets bigger (it breaks in a line) or you ask for another one. If you are come to Merida (still in Mexico) the restaurant is called Apoala, it has really great dishes and drinks and if you want something really Oaxaca style ask for the “Trifecta” is a set of three starter dishes, it’s an item that is off the menu (and I’m the one that named it lol) it’s guacamole, oaxaqueño grasshoppers, “quesillo” (Oaxaca’s cheese) and some tortillas to make a grasshopper, guacamole with cheese taco, it’s really great, specially if you add a Mezcal (it’s just extra information, but the shot of mezcal shouldn’t be drink in one shot, but little sips, you can use oranges and caterpillar salt after the sips.) Almost all starters are pretty good, the food overall is pretty good, for dessert I would recommended the coconut sponge, but it isn’t that common (the head chef makes them like thrice a week and most of the time there aren’t any because people love them, myself included, so if you call to make s reservation I would recommend to ask to reserve a coconut sponge too and if you are in the season the Tuna ice cream with a shot of mezcla is pretty great too, but don’t take too many or you will get wasted 😂)
I feel the best straws that you shown would have to be the bamboo straws. Durable can be cleaned and doesn’t get soggy like the crappy paper straws. Plus bamboo grows fairly fast.
I collect plastic straws and make them into art. It can be pretty fun!
If your a bar owner please warn people if you have wheat based straws, your customers may have wheat allergies and not exspect the straws (particularly one made to look more like paper ones then the example in this video) to be an allergen.
Good point!
I feel like people are forgetting something important: it’s not that were using plastic straws, it that people are throwing them into the ocean. If people didn’t throw the straws into the ocean then everything will be fine
It isnt exactly throwing them directly into the ocean, if you're near the coast and you litter 100miles in from shore there's a good chance the wind still picks that straw up and carries it to the ocean over the following weeks, months, even years since plastic takes so long to degrade. Realistically 100miles isn't even as far as it can be, so even litter from very far inland can make its way there without being tossed directly into the ocean. Which makes the problem more about litter in general than just tossing it into the ocean
lol@@treeck3724
It’s also not all about the ocean. We have covered our entire planet in plastics. Unborn fetal tissue has detectable levels of microplastics in it. Protecting the oceans is obviously important, but we’ve polluted every square inch of this planet with plastics.
How to save the turtles? Deforestation and killing the panda
A woman in Asia already invented a biodegradable replacement for plastic, when she presented her idea she was told to go away because it "wasn't lucrative enough"
Few will probably see this, and fewer still will actually listen to it and take action, but it’s important to state none the less:
Straws make up less then 1/10th of 1% of the plastic in the ocean.
Nets make up half of all the plastic in the ocean.
It’s fine to use plastic straws if you recycle them probably it’s also fine to give them up if that makes you feel better.
But If you want to make a real impact, start finding a solution to the nets. Don’t trick yourself into thinking that anything is changing by giving up plastic straws.
Bamboo straw for the win 🎉
In Cambodia, they're producing straws made from cooked rice. So after your drink you can eat the straw too.
Somewhere in India locals sell a pack of bamboo straws for like 2 usd since bamboo is very accessible there
everyone is an environmentalist until the straw gets soggy
THE SOUNDS YOU WERE MAKING FOR THE BAMBOO STRAWS CAUGHT ME OFF GAURD💀💀
I love how he bought a whole pack of straws to talk about how he didn’t use straws 🤣
That noise you made after trying to break the bamboo straw 😅😅
"I love turtles"
Shows tortoise
All tortoises are turtles
*buys plastic straws to show you what he’s not using*
At least he can recycle them unlike those shit paper straws fast food companies are using these days.
@@FuryousD Plastic straws are made from thermoplastic polymer so they can be recycled fuckton of times until the material degrades that much to become unusable.
@@yowhatsup9909 yea but until that point they are still recyclable unlike the paper straws they are now using which are not recyclable at all.
I love gave straws for cold drinks because they feel just like normal olastic straws just a little tougher
Fun fact, there’s only one documented case of turtle getting a straw in his nose, and the suspicion is that it was placed there by hooligans
Literally bought plastic straws for this video that will go right into the ocean lol
*not if you burn them*
I was looking at biodegradable or reusable straws a few years ago... Until at work we got free metal straws, been using those for years
I'd love to inform you regarding metal straw impalement accident, which only happens in US since most people outside of it have common sense
I like to bite on my straw, was a tough transition to metal straws, ngl.
@@kevinf8439 I can relate a little too much...
@@cypherusuh I'm sure glad I don't run around like a fucking moron when drinking out of my metal straw. Let Darwin take the deserving.
“The bamboo straws would be perfect for a tropical drink”
*the glass of milk*
Its funny how actually to me as a german speaker the wheat straw is kinda making sense since thats exactly what thay are called in german "strohhalm" which word for word would translate to wheat straw
Bro got a whole turtle just for a video
Uuhhmm, it's actshually a tortoise
And a bag of plastic straws too
“no more plastic straws wrapped in paper, just paper straws wrapped in plastic”
Well less plastic is used so it's ok.
@@nooneshome8746 wow, thanks for proving the song right
I have bamboo straws, there great, durable, light, and adds no taste. The only thing is that if you leave them in water for too long they will absorb it and mold. But as long as you dry them after washing and don't leave them in a drink then I recommend it.
Bamboo just seems like a natural alternative. (No pun intended) I'm looking forward to seeing what potential it has to replace plastics.
"I like the environment"
buys a pack of plastic straws just to smash them with a bat...
Nooo bro I had this one biodegradable straw that honestly I had no idea what it was made of 💀 but it tasted so nasty 😭😭
Open ended red vines adds flavor and works
Bro has the most soothing voice ever❤
Bamboo straws are great, that's just what we should be using
The Agave and bamboo ones are interesting
Just got back from a Carnival Cruise. They have switched to edible straws made from beet sugar. They come in several flavors such as lime, strawberry or chocolate. The flavor doesn't really come through while drinking and they stand up really well in cocktails & frozen drinks. They are a really fun alternative especially on the ocean
I just used a straw from 100% recycled marine waste… it was just like a regular straw
As one micheal reeves likes to say "screw the turtles"
“Hallelujah everyone activism saved the plant, no more plastic straws wrapped in paper, just paper straws wrapped in plastic, CONGRATULATIONS!” -Tom MacDonald
Song : “People so stupid”
That's like saying let's ban toothpicks to save all rainforest animals. Stars are not our biggest problems.
I just remembered I have bamboo planted behind my house to soak up ground water, I have infinite free straws.
"...bamboo straws. (Hhnghhh 😩💦)"
Love the content
For homes i would recommend plastic ones but one that are no bendable you can just put them in dishwasher and use it agein.
We need more of those bamboo straws around here
Glass Straws are the best 🤞