I have a soda "to go cup" that I take with me in the car and I always put a clean, new straw in it - so go through a lot of straws - recently bought a new box of Glad straws and when I put it in the cabinet with the old box = noticed that it was shorter - so short that it doesn't even stick up outside of my cup - so had to measure them and take a tape measure to the store and try to find a long enough straw - finally found one at Kroger.