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[donski]

Dangerous secret in the colored straws
Posted Feb 16, 2008 by Hannie

This horrible story of mine goes back to year 2005 March.
I ordered a Club Sandwich and a Sprite in a restaurant somewhere in Manila
When I finished half of the sandwich, I sipped the sprite.
But it didn't taste like the ordinary sprite I used to drink.
So I sipped once more, but it still tasted the same.
It tasted like sprite mixed with some kind of oil.
I called the clerk and asked him if the sprite was expired. He said it was just delivered today. So I asked him to taste it. Then he also found that something was wrong with it.
Both of us were wondering for a while. Then I got to look inside the straw.
There were a lot of tiny black round things that looked like eggs.
So I cut the middle of the straw lengthwise to have a better look.
Yuck. There were a lot of tiny black round things in it.
I suppose they were eggs of cockroach. About 1000 eggs were there.
Then we began to check all the other straws in the straws case one by one.
Almost all of them contained black eggs that seemed to be either the cockroach eggs or excretions.
After the incident I began to check all the straws in the restaurants and fast food chains that I had gone to.
Almost of all the straws contained the same black eggs.
Especially the darker the colors of straws, the more black eggs were found.
In black straws, extreme amount of black eggs were found.
It was found out that it ¡s because the cockroaches live (hatch eggs and excrete) in dark places.

[s_quilicot]

tnx for the advice ..

[awing]

So sad nga. It is true and that is the fact. Here, mostly all resto and big food chains are using straws wrapped with white paper. Yung iba namang fast food chains they are using 'red straws' placed inside a cannister or boxes. Pwera lang yung mga maliliit na food stalls na gumagamit talaga ng mga open straws. Kaya kung ako bibili ng meal sa kanila with drinks, di na ko humihingi ng straws kasi alam ko marumi.

[bender]

Cockroaches lay one large pod which contains many eggs. It is physically impossible for that pod to fit inside a straw. However,what the email can be describing is their excrement which does resemble what the author is describing. Just clarifiying.

[theveed]

Cockroaches lay one large pod which contains many eggs. It is physically impossible for that pod to fit inside a straw. However,what the email can be describing is their excrement which does resemble what the author is describing. Just clarifiying.

Was thinking of the same thing, roaches don't lay individual eggs but large pod sacks...

[boybi]

I've already asked this question here at Pitstop before regarding the cleanliness of tissues and straws. Just try to peek inside the straw and you'll see lots of dirt/dust inside.

[jaymd]

Thanks for the heads -up bro! Kala ko pa naman mas safe ang straws isip ko kasi hinawakan ng waiter yun lip ng baso kun san ka iinom kaya palagi straw ako. Pero yun straw nga pala hinawakan muna ng waiter bago isawsaw sa baso