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Capri Sun straws

42 replies

HepLaurenceLB · 27/04/2021 15:37

Capri Sun have replaced their straws with paper ecologically sound straws. That is great for the environment but they just disintegrate. We are going to stop buying Capri Sun for our picnics because by the time the dc are halfway through, the straw has turned to mush. Anyone else having this problem?

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YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake · 27/04/2021 17:55

Wow. I normally buy these in the summer to use as ice packs when we are out for the day, then nice ice cold drinks and no carting around the ice packs for the rest of the day. Guess I will have to find an alternative

RaininSummer · 27/04/2021 17:59

Buy reusable straws and take them out with you?

Clymene · 27/04/2021 18:09

Most reusable straws are too fat to fit through the tiny holes. All drink cartons have started doing this and while I understand it, it makes drink cartons with really narrow holes pretty much unusable

Rustyigloo · 27/04/2021 18:23

As a dinner lady I can feel my soul leave my body everytime a child hands me a Capri Sun to open.

Closely followed by a half teared off corner of a Frube.

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 27/04/2021 19:48

They were hard enough to get into to start with, now the straw just bends in half and won't pierce the packet. Then if you manage to get it in, it goes soggy.

PaperMonster · 27/04/2021 19:51

@imnottoofussed you jest, but I still have McDs straws which I reuse! They are about six years old now - I used them when I had my jaws wired together, they were just the right thickness!

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HepLaurenceLB · 27/04/2021 20:14

@Rustyigloo it is bad enough doing those things for my 3. I couldn’t cope with doing it for anymore. You should try to get Capri Sun and Frubes banned from school for “eco” reasons.

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Theunamedcat · 27/04/2021 20:20

I use eco straws instead of McDonald's/Starbucks etc but there is no reusable for little drinks that I've found im all for eco but it has to function

Kpo58 · 27/04/2021 20:28

OP Maybe you should develop and sell a Capri sun hole piercer to solve this problem or just take a metal skewer out with you.

HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime · 27/04/2021 20:34

What we all need is those little foldable scissors you get in posh christmas crackers and give the corner a snip.

MonkeyNotOrgangrinder · 27/04/2021 21:20

@PostLockdownLife

16:46MonkeyNotOrgangrinder

The alternative is buying your kids some reusable drinks bottles and filling them with squash or water before you go out.

Disabled parents will not want to carry excessive weight for prolonged periods and may be too exhausted after the day trip having used up many 'spoons' to wash up, so they need disposable goods, this doesn't fit with the agenda of other people, who aren't going to carry and wash up for the disabled when it's easier to only view their world as they live, tweet the government and virtue signal.

OK, if you're disabled maybe you could buy some fruit shoots while you're out? There won't be any world for anyone to live in, though, disabled or not, if we choke the oceans with plastic waste. I don't agree that it's virtue signalling to suggest alternatives to single use plastic tbh.
DinosaurDiana · 27/04/2021 21:23

I’ve not had a problem with them - sorry !

MonkeyNotOrgangrinder · 27/04/2021 21:24

I'm by no means perfect myself btw. But do try and think of alternatives. And it's cheaper to bring your own drinks too. Obviously if you're unable to carry them for some reason that's different.

PostLockdownLife · 27/04/2021 21:30

OK, if you're disabled maybe you could buy some fruit shoots while you're out? There won't be any world for anyone to live in, though, disabled or not, if we choke the oceans with plastic waste. I don't agree that it's virtue signalling to suggest alternatives to single use plastic tbh.

Fruit shoots are plastic Confused

MonkeyNotOrgangrinder · 27/04/2021 21:37

@PostLockdownLife

OK, if you're disabled maybe you could buy some fruit shoots while you're out? There won't be any world for anyone to live in, though, disabled or not, if we choke the oceans with plastic waste. I don't agree that it's virtue signalling to suggest alternatives to single use plastic tbh.

Fruit shoots are plastic Confused

Yes, I know that, but the pp said they were unable to carry drinks with them, but also unable to use the straws that come with capri sun due to being disabled, so I'm assuming there was no other choice in this instance. Otherwise their child would presumably be left thirsty.
mum2jakie · 27/04/2021 21:40

Funnily enough, my youngest didn't drink his Capri sun today. When I asked him why he said it's because the straw goes all mushy and he can't drink through it!

AColdDuncanGoodhew · 27/04/2021 21:42

Do they still make the big capri suns with the screw cap? I buy them for the kids sometimes when we’re out as you can close them if they don’t finish it. I need to check if they come in multipacks.

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