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• They have a serious straw fetish in Brazil, too. I never understood why they insisted upon using them all the time, and why the soda guy always made a big show of wiping off my can when I demanded it delivered sans straw, until someone explained to me that warehouses are not the most sanitary of places. Apparently, they are rather rat and insect-infested and cans end up with all kinds of grossness on them. I started using a straw after that, depite the fact that I am the least germ-phobic person I know. Use the straw, zaf! Use it!

• Ug. right. straw it is. man oh man, ick. thanks b.

• If people in other countries really wanted Americans to use their straws, they would have bendy straws, twisty straws, and colorful straws.
  As Patrick Henry once said, “Give me a bendy straw or give me death.”