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Every once in a while, even urban legends can turn out to be true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stirring-response/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stirr

• astura 5y ago
  That link actually throughly refutes what the OP claimed. They claimed that drug paraphernalia was being sold as "coffee stirrers" (wink, wink) that nobody would actually use for coffee. That link says people were using actual coffee stirrers to also snort cocaine. Their original intended use was as coffee stirrers, not drug paraphernalia. There's a gigantic difference.
  • SamBam 5y ago
    Indeed, and for all the people scoffing at how they can't possibly be coffee stirrers, most coffee shops nowadays give you tiny plastic or wooden twigs, which are far less effective at actually stirring, and yet still get the job done ok. A small spoon at the end of a modern stirrer would be much more effective, yet I guess people would accuse them of selling drug paraphernalia.
    • abecedarius 5y ago
      I can remember the decent stirrers and always wondered why it's lousy ones everywhere now. Sheesh.
  • pessimizer 5y ago
    No, there's an absurdly minor difference. Plenty of "coffee stirrers" were intentionally manufactured as coke spoons, and plenty of earnest coffee stirrers were used instead as coke spoons. McDonald's was obviously not intentionally trying to manufacture coke spooks for absolutely no conceivable gain, but I bet their packaging designers looked at a lot of random coffee stirrers and tried to make one that looked like the fanciest of those.