Unless you suck the drink down in under 30 seconds it's not going to retain its straw form for very long in that bubbly soft-drink. To make one thick enough to not dissolve would require thick paper and it wouldn't justify the amount of deforestation required to mass produce them.
This has to be a joke
right? its like, i get that conservatives on CE have this odd hate for California and everything that happens here but to toss any and all logic out the window just to keep that up is weird..."california did it!? IT SUCKS and here is my uneducated reason why!"....
And yet the paper cups work just fine. Its magic.
...you...do know that paper cups are lined with plastic, right...? ---