Those all sound like urban legends.
The coffee stirrers are for ... stirring your coffee. They look like a small spoon just because that shape works well for stirring the beverage.
The coffee stirrers are for ... stirring your coffee. They look like a small spoon just because that shape works well for stirring the beverage.
The others were listed in a similar article. The small tire pressure gauge was told to me by a friend who at one point had a crack habit and used said items to smoke crack and said it was a well known item to use for such a purpose.
I also think that the cheap socks are just that. But maybe they're popular due to their additional unintended use.
Right?
They steal spark plugs for the ceramic parts too...
They claimed that drug paraphernalia was being sold as "coffee stirrers" (wink, wink) that nobody would actually use for coffee.
That link says people were using actual coffee stirrers to also snort cocaine. Their original intended use was as coffee stirrers, not drug paraphernalia.
There's a gigantic difference.
A small spoon at the end of a modern stirrer would be much more effective, yet I guess people would accuse them of selling drug paraphernalia.
McDonald's was obviously not intentionally trying to manufacture coke spooks for absolutely no conceivable gain, but I bet their packaging designers looked at a lot of random coffee stirrers and tried to make one that looked like the fanciest of those.