MCDONALD'S RE-ENGINEERS THE STRAW

McDonald’s has a new Chocolate Shamrock Shake for St Patrick’s Day. It’s a dual-layer shake – a chocolate shake below a regular Shamrock Shake. The problem comes when you try to drink it – how do you get the right amount of Shamrock mixed in with the chocolately goodness below? McDonald’s hired some aerospace and robotic engineers to redesign the straw to deliver the ideal 50/50 ratio of flavors. The result is called STRAW — Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal. It looks like the letter J, with extra holes at the bottom, so you can suck various levels of shake. Seth Newburg, principal engineer and managing partner at NK Labs, says from a physics perspective, it’s a marvel of fluid dynamics. McDonald’s says it produced 2,000 of these straws, and they will be available with the purchase of a Chocolate Shamrock Shake in select restaurants in the U.S.
(picture here: http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/mcdonalds-straw/?utm_cid=hp-n-2#QtUWqFH_6SqY)
* Suck it, world! But use your own damn straw.
* We may not have real hoverboards, folks but this … this is why America is great.
* It sucks on so many levels! Just like that “Fifty Shades Darker” movie.
* Hey, if I can get one of these straws I’ll never have to stir a rum and coke again.
* That could save a lot of time.
* Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal? Sounds like something you use for an enema.
* To say nothing of the brown and green milkshake.
* The straw is a marvel of fluid dynamics? No, that would be like something from a rocket ship. This is a straw.
* Okay, it’s shaped like a J and has several intake holes in it, but it’s still a straw.
* Hey, how about that dam in California? That’s a marvel of fluid dynamics too, right?