From: Smithsonian's Lemelson Center "[...]Joseph B. Friedman was sitting at his brother's fountain parlor, the Varsity Sweet Shop, in the 1930s, watching his little daughter Judith fuss over a milkshake. She was drinking out of a paper straw, so we can be assured that the milkshake did not taste like grass. But since Stone's paper straw was designed to be straight, little Judith was struggling to drink it up. Friedman had an idea. As the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center explains, he brought a…
