It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
Perhaps because the traditional way to drink it involves a vessel like this one, with a metal straw could potentially impale someone’s eyeball if the driver has to make an emergency stop
As an uruguayan can confirm this is the reason, and to avoid getting the straw sent down your throat, also to avoid spilling boiling water over someone else.
Also, instead of a straw, wouldn’t it be possible to use a sippy cup lid (like those on coffee travel mugs), but with a built-in sieve (like those on a French press), or would that ruin the experience?
Why, actually?
Perhaps because the traditional way to drink it involves a vessel like this one, with a metal straw could potentially impale someone’s eyeball if the driver has to make an emergency stop
As an uruguayan can confirm this is the reason, and to avoid getting the straw sent down your throat, also to avoid spilling boiling water over someone else.
Have lids not been invented in Uruguay yet?
Also, instead of a straw, wouldn’t it be possible to use a sippy cup lid (like those on coffee travel mugs), but with a built-in sieve (like those on a French press), or would that ruin the experience?