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> 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.
Re: Why Drinks Taste Better When Sipped Through A Straw
#21umm, they do that because they do not have refrigerators. and people probably shouldn't be drinking stuff with ice if they are sensitive to waterborne bacterias...