Is it true that the flexible straw when used to hold correctly with a corrugated part of the downward?

In the network, images are popular, allegedly proving that most people who drink packaged juice use a tube incorrectly. We checked the correctness of this statement.

If you believe in viral pictures, corrugated straw for juice, contrary to generally accepted practice, you need to insert into a bag a short part, and drink from the reverse end. Allegedly, only in this way you can empty the bag. The same type of illustrations on this subject with signatures like “my life was a lie” are common in social networks (for example, Facebook, X, "VKontakte") And on entertainment sites ("Glavred","Picabu" Joy Reactor).

Strictly speaking, the question comes down to how to properly use a flexible plastic tube when drinking drinks in any vessels, including ordinary glasses. Indeed, technically there is no fundamental difference between them and packages with juice: in all cases there is the same task - to drink all the liquid completely to the bottom.

To begin with, we turn to the examples with packages. A significant part of the tubes attached to the packets of the juice has one pointed (due to the mowing cut) The end on the long side, so that it is convenient to open the protective film on the package.

Open the juice at one end of the straw, and then remove it from the packaging, turn it over and insert it with others is illogical. Moreover, in many cases, the end of the straw manages to sink into the juice, and, taking out the tube, there is a risk of spraying itself and surrounding objects. In addition, manufacturers traditionally attach the tubes to the package with a long end down, as if prompting how to use them. Finally, there is no guarantee that the flexible end of the tube inside the bag will stand in parallel to the bottom, and will not hold up, because of which to drink the juice will completely become impossible.

FACECHERS from the Spanish project Maldita They turned to Zumos Palma and Tetra Pak, which producing fruit juices. Representatives of both confirmed that the straw is correctly used as it is customary in modern society. “The upper part with the“ accordion ”is designed so that the tilt of the tube can be adjusted in accordance with the taste of the consumer and facilitate access to the drink,” explained Tetra Pak. Indeed, if it is impossible to bend the right end of the straw (already rather short), then you have to either tilt your head behind it, or tilt the vessel, which, for example, in the case of a glass threatens unpleasant consequences (and simply unaesthetically).

Let us turn to the invention, which we talked about in Tetra Pak. Initially, straws based on patent 1888, American Marvin Stone, were paper and unbending. In the 1930s, his compatriot Joseph Friedman I noticed that the little daughter could not normally reach the edge of a straw in a glass standing on the counter. Then he inserted a screw into the tube and grunted it along the contour of the thread. It turned out a homemade corrugation, which allowed to bend the edge of the straw down. September 28, 1937 Friedman received patent for your invention. Without waiting for worthy offers for its sale, he opened the company Flexible Straw for the production of flexible straws, in parallel Having improved model. The first clients of the entrepreneur were hospitals who careed about the convenience of patients, but soon the interest in the adaptation became widespread and the company's affairs went uphill.

As can be seen from Illustrations To the patent, the flexible part of the straw is located outside - it clearly plays the role of the guide towards the head of the drinking head.

Says for himself and sketch Models made by Friedman himself.

Thus, all facts indicate that the vast majority of people, contrary to popular pictures on the network, are correctly used by a flexible tube for juice, when it is inserted into the packaging of its long and straight end. The opposite statement, apparently, is nothing more than someone's joke that has become viral First in the west, and then in Runet.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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