How do you make plastic straws?

What did we use to make straws before plastic?

  • my grandpas aunt owned a small store when he was a kid, so he drank sodas all the time. he says he doesnt remember using straws. r they a recent invention? or did he just happen to not have them in his hick town? lol

  • Answer:

    glass maybe?

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I think they were made out of paper. Like pixie stix.

BabyCakes

paper, like a thick cardboard. there was some type of wax on it so it didn't turn mushy. here is the history of it: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blstraws.htm

DoreensKitchen

they didn't. bamboo could have been used in some places like they used for blow guns, but not in America. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blstraws.htm

Miniver

paper product

Kym the man

Paper back in the day.

DEADGIVEAWAY

... paper type straws ...

suzann

waxed paper straws were the norm way before any of you were born

Old Geezer

Paper straws were the first ones*

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