Is the Solo Company still making straws for sale in grocery stores? I haven’t seen then at Wal-Mart or Kroger’s lately. I have had to buy a different brand for a few months now and my family and I have decided these other straws are “sucky” – yes, they suck at sucking.

You can do it, put them in a beverage and pull it up into your mouth by suction, but the flow doesn’t seem optimal. We have noticed that the newer straws seem lighter and narrower. But what were we to do? Then a couple of days ago, we found a package of Solo straws behind something in a cabinet. And, yes, the Solo model is more rigid and wider. You can, and I will post a picture, slide one of the newer straws into a Solo straw quite easily. I suppose with the proper use of duct tape you could create a long pipeline by alternating Solo and the other (let’s call them Yucky) straws.

This morning, while using a Yucky straw, I had trouble getting a steady flow of Diet Coke to feed into the bottom of a straw nestled in ice. Other times, the liquid gives the feeling of being “stuck” in the straw – as if the little molecules are fighting to make it into the mainstream flow.

While I was in the Google pool, I found a youtube video of some little girls using Solo Straws, obviously being filmed by a mother.

What would these girls do without Solo Straws??