The oldest discovered “Straw” survived for five thousand years, likely because it was made from gold and lapis lazuli. Not everyone had the means of a Sumeric nobleman, thus the common user of paper straws had to resort to profane rye grass stalks. About a hundred years ago, Marvine Chester Stone grew annoyed of the inadequacies of the natural product, as the grass slowly dissolved in his drink turning his Mint Julep to taste of rye instead of mint. He promptly invented the waxed paper straw, raising the drinking straw to a new level of development. The next step is occurring now through a new graphic design and a geometrically refined packaging in the shape of a prism: This way even the common man can suck on a straw with the same sophistication of a Babylonian nobleman (or if really naughty blow on it).