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"When Malibu enacted its ban, Paradise Cove Beach Café immediately switched to dried bucatini as straws; owner Bob Morris says he used 500,000 plastic straws in 2017 and has since handed out 100,000 pasta straws, with only two complaints (both about gluten). He reports the bucatini lasts about four hours in a cold drink, costs about the same as paper straws, and provides a marketable quality — so much so that Morris has launched the Amazing Pasta Straw Company with an initial million-piece run." - Clint Rainey, Clint Rainey