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Did you hear about McDonald's new Chocolate Shamrock Shake1+ Archives It's a dual-layer shake -- basically a chocolate shake below a regular Shamrock Shake.
But you can't drink it properly with a regular straw. No sir, a regular straw just wouldn't do here, so McDonald's hired some aerospace and robotic engineers to redesign the straw to deliver the ideal 50/50 ratio of flavors while drinking the Chocolate Shamrock Shake.
SEE ALSO: Shake Shack now lets you skip the line and order on your phoneThe result is called STRAW -- Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal -- and it looks like a regular straw with a couple of holes at the curvy bottom, but McDonald's, who hired two companies to work on the straw, Jace and NK Labs, claims it's much more than that.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable "From a physics perspective, it's actually quite difficult to deliver a proportional amount of both chocolate and mint flavors with each sip. But that's exactly what we did. It's a marvel of fluid dynamics," Seth Newburg, principal engineer and managing partner at NK Labs, said in a statement.
The entire thing looks exactly like an April Fools' joke -- in fact, a Jony Ive-channeling McDonald's presenter (see video above) calls the STRAW "spectacularly unnecessary." However, April 1 is still far away, and McDonald's claims it actually produced 2,000 of these straws, so they probably aren't kidding. The STRAW will be available with the purchase of a Chocolate Shamrock Shake in select restaurants in the U.S.; check out the full list here.
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