[Sca-cooks] How old are drinking straws?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Mark.S Harris wrote:
> Chirhart commented:
>
>>Arrg yes if he be fitted with a new fangled straw
>>
>
> That made me wonder just how early drinking straws are?
> Were they used in medieval times? Even if used in Classical
> times this wouldn't necessarily indicate use in the Middle Ages.
> Anyone know? While of course plastic ones are modern they
> can be made of other materials, paper, metal, glass, reeds.
>
> I would think when they were used they would show up
> in drawings of table settings or elsewhere.

They appear in illustrations of ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians
drinking beer, IIRC.


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