In my first visit to a Philadelphia restaurant I ordered a soft drink, which came with a straw. When I put my mouth on the straw I was chagrinned to taste paper. The wrapping had been removed except for the top two inches. Presumably this was a compromise to please both a customer's sanitary finickiness and desire for convenience--this was a restaurant where you didn't even have to tear off the covering of a straw, for the waiter was tough enough to do it. After this experience I looked exactingly before sucking on a straw, and indeed found this custom repeated in other restaurants. Maybe it is native to the East Coast.
"One in an ACRL Philadelphia series. Collect the whole set."
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