{"id":199074,"date":"2017-02-16T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=199074"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T07:18:00","slug":"mcdonalds-creates-re-engineered-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/199074-mcdonalds-creates-re-engineered-straws.html","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s creates re-engineered straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mcdonalds.com\/press-releases\/mcdonald-s-creates-re-engineered-straws-for-shamrock-season-1297394\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>McDonald&#8217;s has unveiled<\/strong><\/a> a limited-edition straw designed by a team of aerospace and robotics engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The straw lets customers enjoy both flavours of the new Chocolate Shamrock Shake.<\/p>\n<p>The shake has dual layers of chocolate shake below Shamrock Shake. The ideal flavour ratio is\u00a050% chocolate and 50% mint in each sip, said McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>JACE and NK Labs created the &#8220;probably-more-revolutionary-than-actually-needed&#8221; Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal (the STRAW). The STRAW&#8217;s j-shape provides optimal flavour flow dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the STRAW&#8217;s design, only 2,000 were produced in time for Shamrock season. The STRAW will be available in select restaurants.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zc7hmqrGyPE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/189032-wechat-and-mcdonalds-launch-mobile-payment-partnership.html\">WeChat and McDonald\u2019s launch mobile payment partnership<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s has unveiled a limited-edition straw designed by a team of aerospace and robotics engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":199076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8509,41362],"class_list":["post-199074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-mcdonalds","tag-straw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199090,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199074\/revisions\/199090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}