# I don't like drinking through straws **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334 "2005-04-02T00:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/21 "2005-04-03T02:03:50Z")
Ah…the joys of having cold-sensitive teeth. I adore straws. I only wish they’d give them to me with water, since that’s usually what I drink, even at restaurants. I don’t really like soda with meals, aside from fast food. Ice+my teeth=OWIE!!! ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/22 "2005-04-03T09:58:31Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Ice+my teeth=OWIE!!! Agreed. If a drink has ice in it, I’d like a straw, or else I will take a half-hour to finish a glass because it hurts! Also, a straw is grand if it has milk in it, because I don’t like the smell of milk when I put my nose in the glass to drink. Yep, I’m weird. 🙂 A couple of restaurants I used to go to would only bring straws to women. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/23 "2005-04-03T14:08:51Z")
I prefer to drink through a straw because I get the cold liquid rather than the chunks of ice. **Portia**? > [@](#): > > it can cause the same wrinkles as smoking does over time! You’re going to get wrinkles anyway. Smoking also decreases your blood circulation, which can lead to wrinkles faster. To equate smoking with drinking through a straw minimizes the the greater health effects of the former. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/24 "2005-04-04T03:46:55Z")
I guess you’re getting my straws, **Mike1Dog**. I usually only order water too, and I really like a straw with it - I don’t like the ice bumping my mouth either. I almost never have ice in a drink outside of a restaurant - if there’s ice, I want a straw. (I don’t particularly like the smell of milk either, **rinni** - I love the taste, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/25 "2005-04-04T06:50:22Z")
Don’t know if this is remotely helpful, but I queried once why some drinks came with straws and some without and was told it’s to mark the difference between, say, ‘rum & coke’ and ‘rum and DIET coke’. I can’t recall now whether it was the diet version or the normal one that got marked with a straw though. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/26 "2005-04-06T00:40:42Z")
I like to chew on ice when I run out of drink. I’ll crunch it like hard candy. I enjoy it almost as much as the drink. Of course, some restaurants have bad tasting ice. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334/27 "2005-04-06T01:42:42Z")
Straws if I’m having bubble tea. One of my little joys in life is sucking up those tapioca balls through the doublewide straw. 😃 I don’t eat more than once in several blue moons at fast food restaurants, though, so the question is largely moot for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-drinking-through-straws/297334.md?page=1)