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• [1] Paulo from Paterson, New Jersey April 17, 2008 - 01:32PM

  I HATE drinking water from a straw... I feel like there's more of a plastic taste (even moreso than drinking it from a plastic cup). Just water though. Juice, soda, etc. is no problem.

  I've never noticed firmness of the container as being a real factor.

  
  
• [2] anthony clune from Brooklyn April 17, 2008 - 01:34PM

  My ceramics teacher in Minnesota has been saying this for years.

  Some potters would go as far as to claim that the plate you eat your food off of is more important than the fair itself... This might be pushing it... but the idea is that it is a spiritual thing.

  
  
• [3] Jennifer H from NYC April 17, 2008 - 01:38PM

  When I was a kid my grandmother had these anodized aluminum cups they were colorful and when you put a cold drink in them the metal would get cold. They were amazing. i loved drinking out of them and as i recall there was a slight metal to the taste of the drink from them and I think it made me like them even better.

  
  
• [4] MD from ny April 23, 2008 - 09:32AM

  no big news in that the cup matters. It's been known for years. Her idea that she can assess the role of tactile sensation of touch when people are simultaneously having the unusual tactile sensation of drinking through a straw is absurd. Then to further discriminate between the tactile/sensitive is more absurd since they are the ones who would be more tactily stimulated by the straw.