Nicholson Baker's novel, The Mezzanine (1988), includes a detailed discussion of various types of drinking straws experienced by the narrator and their relative merits.
There, he is distressed to find the bendy straws have been taken away and decides it is time to complain to the new owner of Bueno Nacho.
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