Brain freeze

 

Okay. Can we talk about the wooden straws at Tim Horton's? The summer iced coffees and capps now come with a stick to suck thru.

The straws are gray-ish color, have a vaguely bark-y taste and the uneasy feel of reed instruments on your lips. Could I get a splinter?

It's like drinking thru Pinocchio's nose.

Timmy's joins the familiar corporate eco-theater: we're here to save the planet.

But the wood-style straws cost four times as much as paper straws. Don't both go into fiber recycling? What is the point?

The straws come in white paper wrappers!

The wood straws may well be part of some industrial plant overstock sale: actually birdhouse chimneys. Elf sewage systems.

I have a dozen of the old, red plastic straws seen in the drink above. Rinse and re-use.

Did you know there's 34 grams of sugar and 34 grams of carbohydrates in each serving of Timmy's "Light" Iced Capp? The milk version?

Maybe I don't need any straw.