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  • Plastic and Stainless Steel Straw Hysteria

    Plastic and Stainless Steel Straw Hysteria

    This article is about straw usage on a daily basis and states that in most cases straw usage is unnecessary. I am not writing  about out of ordinary activities that actually might require straws.

    The stainless steel straw craze

    Slowly, all youtube gurus have started to use stainless steel straws. I’m just watching their videos amazed by the fact that:

    1. They need to drink with a straw.
    2. They drink all kind of stuff with a straw (lemonade, coffee, smoothies, milkshakes etc.)
    3. They don’t punch their teeth with the inox thingy.

    I understand that this craze comes from the fact that people use too much plastic. But… but… but… why the need to drink everything with a straw?! Also, there may be times in life when plastic straws could actually come in handy. So why adopt extreme mesures when we could educate ourselves?

    Ways to reduce straw usage

    I don’t use plastic straws not because there is a modern craze about it, but because I just simply drink what I need to drink without further complications.

    1. No junk food

    Since I don’t use to eat junk food, I don’t usually drink some unhealthy juice from a big cup with a … plastic straw.

    So, before ordering stainless steel straws, how about stop eating junk food and stop drinking tons of sugary water? Also, what about those cups? Aren’t those garbage as well? How about making less waste?

    2. Brew your own coffee

    Since Starbucks became such a big thing, all girls started to create tons of waste because of those plastic straws and that unmistakeable Starbucks coffee cup. First of all, it is unhealthy to drink such stuff on a daily basis and secondly, it is WASTE. Buying a stainless steel straw won’t make up for all the waste you’ve been creating. And no, it is not a “small step”. It is just an extreme measure for a problem that most of these people don’t actually want to solve.

    3. Stop adding unnecessary straws

    Who in the world decided 2 straws look better?! Once again, such an unnecessary waste…

    4. Just drink from the glass like a normal person

     

    Look, a woman drinks something without a straw, from a container that actually isn’t garbage and could be used for 100 years! Incredible, right?

    People, your life doesn’t need straws on a daily basis. Just… stop sucking. 🙂

  • The first sip of coffee in the morning is heaven

    The first sip of coffee in the morning is heaven

    Hi guys! Since coffee makes my mornings so awesome, every day, I thought I should share with you this feeling. So lets star with the beginning. I wake up…

    Usually, after I wake up, the first thing that I drink is coffee. Real, simple, dark black coffee. And the moment this beverage touches my tongue, there is this immediate feeling of heaven. If the coffee is good quality and if the brewing was done correctly, the final taste should be, as I said, heaven!

    I use a french press to brew my simple coffee and nothing more. I don’t add sugar, nor milk or chocolate. The most important part in this process is to make sure that the coffee will have foam. If it doesn’t have foam, something went wrong. If you drink expresso, then your problems are solved. The expresso machine will make sure to brew perfectly the coffee and to create that expresso-specific foam,, like this one below.

    My coffee, on the other hand, since it is french pressed, doesn’t always have foam and if it does, the foam doesn’t look like an expresso one. It looks like this:

    I’m not an expert and I don’t know what’s the correlation between this thin foam and heaven, but it is surely very important. It is also very important to drink the coffee at a good temperature, not too hot, since hotness numbs your senses. If the temperature is perfect and the foam is consistent and the coffee is good quality and dark enough, then you’ll be sure to enter heaven…

  • A strange habit of New Yorkers: the morning coffee

    A strange habit of New Yorkers: the morning coffee

    It’s been a while since a little problem keeps bugging me. It is about the way New Yorkers are depicted in movies regarding to their morning coffee habit.

    I’ve observed that in movies people tend to get up, get dressed, go out and buy some coffee, then return home and drink it. Really, what’s the problem with New York people?!

    There are tons of ways in which you can make your own coffee. Simple ways and more complicated ways. Ways for everyone. Isn’t it easier to get the coffee package, take some coffee into a spoon, put it in your cup and then fill it with hot water? (I guess this is the simplest way to make a coffee). Or you could just buy yourself an espresso machine… Really, it is very simple. A little kid could do it.

    It surely is way more complicated to get dressed and go out to buy a fricking coffee.

    I am well aware that some of them, during working days, prefer to get up, get dressed and on the way to work just grab a cup of coffee from any coffee-to-go station. But this is not what I am talking about. I am referring to the precise situation depicted in movies where two persons make love and in the morning one of them goes out to buy some coffee.

    So, my question: why does it seem that New Yorkers are unable to make coffee for themselves? And please don’t tell me that the one from town is better, because you could literally buy some extremely good quality ground coffee and with it you will drink a very good coffee. So why do they act like this?! This is nonsense!