How come paper cups can hold hot coffee for hours, but a paper straw turns to mush after 10 mins?

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Just wondering about this as a I see a co-worker drinking multiple cups of coffee from same cup. And then whenever I get a drink while im out and then give me a paper straw, it becomes useless if I don’t finish the drink quickly.

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I always thought it was the ends that soaked up the fluid and it seeped throughout the fibres that way. Like where the wood is exposed on pencils compared to their coloured sides, to illustrate my point.

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