HAPPY NATIONAL DRINKING STRAW DAY – January 3 Now that the holiday craze has come to a close and everyone has rang in the New Year, it’s time to celebrate the real main event in January: the 125th anniversary of the drinking straw patent! Thanks to Marvin Stone, the drinking straw was patented on January 3rd, 1888. Where would we be without the drinking straw? Drinking our ice cold beverages straight from the glass like cave men?! You may not think about it often, but most people probably encounter or use a drinking straw at least once every day. Straws directly influence how we enjoy our beverages whether at a restaurant, in the movie theater, or from a crazy cup while lounging at a tropical resort. It is believed that the very first drinking straws were used by the Sumerians for drinking beer. It is speculated that they used the straws to avoid the solid byproducts of fermentation that would have sank to the bottom. The oldest drinking straw known to be in existence was found in a Sumerian tomb dated 3,000 B.C.E. This found straw was a gold tube inlaid with a precious blue stone. Neighbors to the Sumerians, the Argentines used a similar metallic device called a bombilla. Used for hundreds of years, the bombilla acted as both a straw and a sieve. Fun things you can do with a straw: Hull Strawberries. https://youtube/watch?v=kA5QBiFpAoc Make Jelly Worms. instructables/id/Bowl-of-Worms-Anyone/ Keep Jewelry Chains Unknotted: Fine gold chains always end up in a knotted, kinked, mess when they’re stored in open-style jewelry boxes. Before storing a chain, run it through the inside of a straw, cut to proper length, and close the chain clasp before putting it away. It’ll always be ready to wear. Give Flowers Needed Height: Your flower arrangement would be just perfect, except a few of the flowers aren’t tall enough. You can improve on nature by sticking each of these too short stems into plastic straws, trimming the straw to get the desired height and inserting them into the vase.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:08:22 +0000
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