# What replaces plastic cutlery in take out and fast food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 19, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795 "2018-11-19T15:20:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/41 "2018-11-22T21:31:11Z")
Bamboo disposable utensils are used by our local ‘green’ restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/42 "2018-11-22T22:05:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Never heard of the folding cardboard spoon, and would choke the last dolphin to death with the last sea turtle before I’d switch to them. Without even trying one first? Ok. They have spudware at my work cafeteria. They aren’t as easy to use as plastic utensils if that makes sense but they work well enough. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/43 "2018-11-23T01:05:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m not sure why anyone would use disposable pinewood chopsticks instead of disposable bamboo ones. Bamboo is about as renewable as it comes: Each segment of bamboo is literally one day’s growth. Even with all of the advantages of mass production, I doubt there’s any other material chopsticks could be made from more cheaply. As I talked about in my post about different chopstick types, for me there’s an unexplainable different mouth feel with different types of chopsticks. Also, round bamboo chopsticks (because they’re smoother) sometimes makes it’s difficult to pick up some slippery food. And you can suck on the ends of wooden chopsticks, giving you that last oddly satisfying flavor of the last thing you ate mixed with that pulpy taste of the wood, like sucking on a popsicle stick after the popsicle’s gone! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/44 "2018-11-23T02:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Without even trying one first? Ok. I don’t need to eat with a bent piece of cardboard to know that the idea doesn’t appeal to me–just like I know that I don’t want to boil soup in an old tin can over a garbage fire. Because I’m _not_ a hobo from the 1930s. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/45 "2018-11-24T15:14:54Z")
Do you have the same opinion about drinking from a [del]carboard[/del] wax coated paper cup? To me, it depends on how effective it is as a spoon and what alternatives are available. If it doesn’t get limp and soggy during use and is able to spoon liquids, then I’m willing to give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/46 "2018-11-24T19:04:01Z")
Waldo Pizza in Kansas City has been experimenting with straw alternatives. The uncoated paper ones became soggy halfway through a meal, but the one labeled as being “made from plants” was perfectly fine. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795/47 "2018-11-24T21:14:18Z")
I don’t know if they still package them this way, but the taste of individual ice cream cups or frozen malts never taste the with a plastic or metal spoon. Gotta be that little wooden spoon! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-replaces-plastic-cutlery-in-take-out-and-fast-food/824795.md?page=2)