Party Like It's 2999 BC: Oldest Known Drinking Straws Reveal Ancient Party Antics

Ancient Sumerians were getting zooted with booze straws.?They even?had built-in strainers?to filter out the beer sediment.

Some things never change. People enjoy getting together for happy hour and have done so for nearly as long as people have been people.

The drinking straws mentioned are about 5,000 years old which means that the beer being imbibed was invented earlier.

The collection of eight straws plus a jar/jug/mesogrowler suggests beer drinking was a social activity.

7 pints per person is a serious party, except in the UK where it would be considered just another Tuesday.@ Trevor H Rogers Laurie Bowen David Homer

4 of the straws are decorated with bulls (the Prada versions); four are not. Even back then people had a sense for style. I'd have wanted the Prada straw.

The Sumerians got the practice from the Mesopotamians, trend setters that they were.

Stay curious my friends.

ARS