05-15-2011, 07:35 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Straws
Is there some sort of magical powers that straws have? They make any drink taste a lot better.
I usually don't drink much water and if I don't drink water with a straw I can probably finish half a cup, but with a straw I can drink 2 cups.
Anyone else notice that straws make any drink more enjoyable?
There's probably some awesome explanation out there.
/cool story bro
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05-15-2011, 07:37 PM
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#2
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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I see
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05-15-2011, 07:37 PM
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#3
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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They're also more sanitary than $20 bills.
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05-15-2011, 07:37 PM
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NOT a cool kid
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary
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7/11 slurpee straws are the best straw
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05-15-2011, 07:39 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puckluck
Is there some sort of magical powers that straws have? They make any drink taste a lot better.
I usually don't drink much water and if I don't drink water with a straw I can probably finish half a cup, but with a straw I can drink 2 cups.
Anyone else notice that straws make any drink more enjoyable?
There's probably some awesome explanation out there.
/cool story bro
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I guess it's because you enjoy sucking on things?
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05-15-2011, 07:40 PM
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Franchise Player
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is this the "Coke" thread?
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05-15-2011, 07:43 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by Cheese
is this the "Coke" thread?
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Who doesn't enjoy a nice glass of "coke"?
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05-15-2011, 07:46 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I guess it's because you enjoy sucking on things?
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Yes. I love sucking on things. PM me big boy.
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05-15-2011, 07:50 PM
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NOT a cool kid
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Calgary
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If you drink beer with a straw you should be thrown out of the saddledome
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05-15-2011, 08:09 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by J-bo09
If you drink beer with a straw you should be thrown out of the saddledome
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I don't drink beer, but if I did I'd probably use a straw! lol
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05-15-2011, 08:27 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puckluck
I don't drink beer, but if I did I'd probably use a straw! lol
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Somehow it did not surprise me at all that the guy who prefers all his drinks with a straw does not drink beer. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you would turn down a nice scotch as well (even with a straw)?
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05-15-2011, 08:38 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Probably likes them with an umbrella too.
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05-15-2011, 08:46 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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Sounds to me like you're just grasping at straws.
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05-15-2011, 08:46 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Probably likes them with an umbrella too.
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Derp derp.
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05-15-2011, 08:51 PM
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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A straw puts the liquid being drunk on a different part of the tongue, further back.
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05-15-2011, 08:56 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Found a pretty good link with an explanation.
http://www.finecooking.com/item/1911...e-drink-better
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With all of that, let's think straws vs. no straws. If you were drinking, say, a milkshake without a straw, then you get a big clump all at once. There's not a lot of room in your mouth, and so not much air circulation. Also, the milkshake is pretty cold, so you won't get much going on by way of nerve impulses or VOCs.
If you drank the same milkshake with a straw, then you would just get a little at a time. That small amount of milkshake hits your tongue, which heats the relatively small amount of milkshake rather than being instantly frozen by it. The warmed milkshake lets off VOCs, and also your tongue can maintain its tasty chemical reactions. That, combined with all the air that's flowing through your system as part of the mechanism of sucking liquid through a straw, you have a lot more flavor happening.
And that, in a nutshell, is why some things taste better through a straw
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05-15-2011, 09:22 PM
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One of the Nine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by J-bo09
If you drink beer with a straw you should be thrown out of the saddledome
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lol
I always drink my beer through a straw at the dome. I don't care if people think I'm lazy or stupid or flamboyantly gay. It's the best way to keep my beer from getting crap kicked in it from the people behind me, except for actually holding it the whole time. To be honest, I'd prefer drinking my Saddledome beer out of one of those steins with the thumb flip lid, but since that's not gonna happen, I'll just drink beer through the straw.
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05-15-2011, 09:26 PM
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First Line Centre
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Never trust a man that drinks from a straw.
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05-15-2011, 09:45 PM
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#19
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yasa
Never trust a man that drinks from a straw.
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What about a slush?
Are we supposed to use the scoop end like some sort of fag?
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05-15-2011, 09:48 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
What about a slush?
Are we supposed to use the scoop end like some sort of fag?
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Use your hands, pansy.
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