OK, that's part of the answer: now why do some other drinks (beer and wine spring to mind) taste worse through a straw?
The same principle of 'temperature matters'. Some things are better cold.
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#12OK, that's part of the answer: now why do some other drinks (beer and wine spring to mind) taste worse through a straw?
The same reason that beer tastes bad from a can--you don't get the smell.
I beg to differ. Beer tastes better from a glass bottle than from a can. The smell doesn't account for everything there.
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#13Coke w/ ice tastes better w/o a straw and directly from the glass...
That's probably because the bubbles are naturally popping and putting lots of it in the air. When you drink from the cup you get more of that air, with the straw you don't.
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#15And that, in a nutshell, is why some things taste better through a straw. It doesn't explain why some things don't taste better through a straw like ice tea or beer.
> It doesn't explain why some things don't taste better through a straw like ice tea or beer. I wonder if it's partly cultural - in Guilin, China there's a place called Jack Coffee that sells coffee in a covered plastic cup that you drink through a straw. At first I was turned off by the idea, but after a few days I came to enjoy it. I'm in Vietnam now, and my first night I met an old friend. He ordered a beer, put t…
It should be noted that the beer was probably heineken or some variant. I reacted the same way the first time I saw it, but it turns out that particular brand on rocks makes a refreshing, frothy and very tasty drink to sip on in hot weather as long as you don't let it sit. I don't even like heineken that much, but paired with a glass of cubed ice it's now replaced corona et al as my hot climate beer.
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#16And that, in a nutshell, is why some things taste better through a straw. It doesn't explain why some things don't taste better through a straw like ice tea or beer.
> It doesn't explain why some things don't taste better through a straw like ice tea or beer. I wonder if it's partly cultural - in Guilin, China there's a place called Jack Coffee that sells coffee in a covered plastic cup that you drink through a straw. At first I was turned off by the idea, but after a few days I came to enjoy it. I'm in Vietnam now, and my first night I met an old friend. He ordered a beer, put t…
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#17OK, that's part of the answer: now why do some other drinks (beer and wine spring to mind) taste worse through a straw?
The same reason that beer tastes bad from a can--you don't get the smell.
I've heard it's supposed to taste better in a can, because a can is better-sealed than a bottle and offers better protection against sunlight. Though personally I can't tell the difference.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same reason that beer tastes bad from a can--you don't get the smell.
I beg to differ. Beer tastes better from a glass bottle than from a can. The smell doesn't account for everything there.
Perhaps the can smells bad, and the glass bottle smells neutral.
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#19I find that all sodas from a plastic bottle are so much worse than a can, straw or not.
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#20Coke w/ ice tastes better w/o a straw and directly from the glass...
Maybe I'm weird (and I've been accused of that before), but I can't think of a single beverage that tastes better to me through a straw.
All cold drinks taste best (to me) direct from a glass (and, I mean one made of glass). Hot coffee, tea and cocoa taste best drunk directly from a ceramic mug. I can't think of any other hot drinks I've had recently, but I suspect I'd pick the ceramic mug for them also.