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i know plastic straws are bad but i love a straw at a restaurant especially if it's greasy finger food, I don't wanna grease up my glass, yo
Straws are really good for consuming fluid while walking. Less fluid sloshing around at the opening
Glass / metal straws are cool when you're at home I know bars who use edibles straws made of hard rice paste, which is indefinitely better than paper straws which have a strong taste and are still pretty polluting
If bars have glasses I don't see why they can't have glass straws
I think there's the labor cost of washing them. Glass straws are too thin to be properly washed by a dishwasher like glasses, they need to be washed manually. Also they might be afraid people would steal them a lot more than glasses because it's way smaller
I have these thick boba glass straws that go fine in the dishwasher
(So I think anyway, they're probably disgusting)
My first thought is breakage. Some drunk person ending up with a mouth full of glass shards sounds like a bad time.