My Austrian friends are curious why Americans drink out of straws in restaurants. What's your theory?

Question

Poll Results

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Answer 1

Sometimes glasses may not be as clean as you'd like

Answer 2

You want to bend directly over the glass and not touch it because your hands are dirty from picking up your food

Answer 3

You are so used to drinking from fast food cups with straws that you've evolved past needing to drink from the glass

Answer 4

Other (please leave your own theory in the Comments)

Keli Hawthorne