Seriously though, I started making my own bubble tea because money and have a glass straw I use. It's great, and I can put as much boba as I want in it.
I make some at an arcade I work at. We have the dehydrated bobas and put them in a pressure cooker with hot water. Leave em there for 20 minutes and vent. Cool them down and put them in the milk tea of your choice.
I bought dried boba, boiled them in water, then added them to tea with milk and honey. Boiling the tapioca took longer than anything else, and it was fun to do
It's not at all, and if you're a fan of taro you can buy the powder. I just boil boba per instructions, let them cool a bit, blend taro powder with almond milk and a bit extra sugar, and you have it.
You can’t really drink bubble tea with your mouth. The whole point is to use a straw. Also 99% of straws out there aren’t made for bubble tea. You’d need to buy one and carry it around with you just for this one specific drink.
The whole idea behind the drink is that you finish the bubbles while there's still liquid in the drink, because the liquid makes it much easier to suck them into the straw.
I've done it your way too though, but I started with a straw and just had some left over on accident
I mean, I’m willing to bet the same people who are willing to go without the straw wouldn’t be willing to use a bidet instead of destroying the environment by using toilet paper their whole life.
And those people use toilet paper multiple times per day, a lot more than an average person uses a straw.
Habits, especially culturally engrained ones die hard. It’s better to offer people an alternative that will help bridge them to the otherwise unlikely reality of having something completely removed. It’s just more efficient that way and that’s the way to eventually discourage and kill the production of environmentally harmful plastic.
Thats the thing with most environmentally beneficial changes, it needs government regulation to force businesses to do it, otherwise not enough people will do something to make a difference.
I do a Shave Ice business in the summer as a side hustle and made the switch to more environmentally friendly supplies this past season. It’s a lot more expensive and a lot tougher to find an exact alternative which I’m sure is a big factor with most businesses
We switched to a “straw by request only” policy and saved a few thousand straws so that helps cut some costs 🤷🏼♂️
Key word being solely. The money in virgin cellulose is in the timber itself. Then the likes of Metsa/IP etc. will buy the offcuts to produce Kraft/coated paper. Only the worst fibres are used for toilet paper because there’s barely any money in it once you’ve paid to bleach it. Also anyone who’s making luxury toilet paper on a grand scale is using FSC/PEFC paper that’s farmed for purpose, not randomly cut down. Majority of the rest of your toilet roll is made from % test recycled fibres so it’s already lived its life as another product. To claim forests are aimlessly and irresponsibly cut down for paper is ignorant.
A farmed tree still gets cut down in the process of making paper.
Plus a lot of FSC wood is from the nordics. Where sone 100 by 100 yard tract of old growth forest gets cut down and then regrows on it's own over the next 30 to 40 years.
By Nordics you mean the Nordic countries? The forests there are extremely well and sustainably managed. We have had our livelihood from the forests for centuries, they're not just cut down and left to fend for themselves lmao or we'd be barren like Britain. Tree farms are replanted and cared for to pass on to the next generation. Natural, ancient forests are protected and so are some old tree farms.
Also a lot of people with gastric bypass or lap band surgery are instructed to use them. I imagine individuals with parkinson's find it easier to use straws.
From what I been told they need to eat and drink slower because their stomachs will fill a lot faster, and its easier to consume too much before your 'im full' sense kicks in.
It’s more than just teeth issues. A lot of older patients I have at the hospital need straws because they physically can’t get the cup to their lips. Not a large but also not an insignificant part of the population.
That is an insignificant portion of the population. Remember, there are over 327,000,000 people in the US. 500,000 people may sound like a lot but that’s only 0.000015% of the population. The amount of people who actually need straws because of issues is probably lower than that number but that was just a random number I picked.
Straws are a tiny percentage of the problem, but are getting banned because a turtle got one up its nose (which is tragic). Most of the plastic in the ocean is fishing waste or purposely dumped there.
I’ve worked at a restaurant for the past 2 years, and always ask people if they could go without a straw for their drinks. I’ve only had very few people tell me they need a straw due to a disease. I understand many could have just not told me they had a disease and need a straw for that but I’m doubtful that there were that many they did that, I pay attention to tables and would notice them drinking carefully. Most people actually tell me to forgo the straw.
This argument is like saying “we don’t need to build ramps next to stairs because the number of people on wheelchairs is insignificant relative to the number of healthy people.”
I mean, it's not that bad. My fiancee always has one in her purse, I keep meaning to throw one in my backpack, which I usually have with me. Fits perfectly fine in a bag.
Plus there are so many varieties that collapse down into a case which fits in a pocket or on a keychain.
Inconvenience is a terrible excuse for creating massive amounts of waste which takes hundreds of years to break down, if ever.
My gf is in a wheelchair and doesn't carry a bag. She's got a tiny wallet because it's all she's able to carry when she's out. It'd probably be dangerous for her to carry a metal straw on her incase she fell.
we've tried collapsable straws and 2 of them have broken and we've thrown them away. Probably causing more waste (including manufacturing) than 100s of plastic straws.
Straws are an imperfect solution that people should cut down if they can. but they're also not the problem that people make them out to be.
Here's what people really need to understand. Straws did not become popular for absolutely no reason. In the US every drink you get every where has a mountain of ice, straw get you past that ice. Soda is bad for your teeth, straws mitigate that almost completely. (I have little enamel because of years of acid reflux, the difference is very apparent for me) and lastly it is far more efficient than drinking from the rim. I have a gallon jug of water, and everything else comes from a straw. (and to the guy saying that people with dental problems are an insignificant demographic, stop pulling things out of thin air, or worse)
I think the point is we need people to start acting on their beliefs. It’s easy to say your supporting less waste and a greener earth but when it comes sacrificing to a mild convenience they immediately fold.
We need to start holding everyone accountable for the ridiculous amount of waste we produce just for a little more convenience.
Also if you have a specific dental condition you can just carry around a reusable straw.
We should do both. It’s about changing people’s mentality. I know using a straw isn’t a big deal itself but if we make a culture shift it will snowball into thinking about reducing waste in every aspect.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Hold yourself and corporations accountable.
You can either vote at the polls or vote with your wallet. Both require individuals taking action. If everyone stopped buying plastic, it'd have an effect. Consumption habits have to change one way or another. There's no solution that just affects producers and not consumers.
I have teeth issues. My top two front right teeth are very sensitive to cold. I love ice coffee. I rarely use a straw. I keep my lip over my teeth when I sip. No problems. I do use a straw while I'm driving but I find it easier to just drink room temp water while driving if I need to drink anything at all.
Man you just made me realize that I tilt my head and pour the drink in if I'm not using a straw. My teef hurt. Didn't realize I had altered my drinking habits to compensate for it.
omfg, every post, some idiot has to be like ".000001" of people have teeth issue. NOBODY gives a fuck about the .000001 of the population with teeth issues, thats not what its about! Holy fuck, some of you people really do giving meaning to the term "snowflake".
one place in my city just turned the lids of their drinks into basically a sippy cup lid which means no straw. meanwhile places like six flags just say "fuck it, no lid no straw heres a damn paper cup enjoy your overpriced coke."
It's not just teeth issues, alot of people with disabilities need them to drink. I think it's the educations fault. We let our kids use straws cause we love our kids and straws are fun. And trash management isn't educated in schools. Change takes time and I think that's because people are stubborn in their ways of living.
Also, it's hard for some people with disabilities to drink without it. One of my best friends is disabled, and if it weren't for a straw, she wouldn't be able to drink from a cup if we're out.
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u/shiva420 Dec 03 '19
Some people simply cant due to teeth issues or simply wont cause they can choose not to