"The rumor is that employees at Dutch Bros coffee will give customers certain colored straws that represent their attractiveness, personality, or behavior. Allegedly, a pink straw means the customer is attractive, a green straw indicates unattractiveness, a blue straw means the customer was rude, yellow is simply ordinary, and the orange straw is for customers that come off as a bit strange or having a strong personality. The theory has been both verified and debunked multiple times on TikTok, Reddit, and other internet forums."
"One Reddit user who claims to be a Dutch Bros barista said, "I work for Dutch and I can tell you 100% we just grab a straw and put it in the drink." Another employee echoed this sentiment in a TikTok comment thread, saying, "This is completely untrue, I just grab a random straw unless people ask me for a specific color.""
A viral internet theory assigns meanings to Dutch Bros straw colors, linking pink to attractiveness, green to unattractiveness, blue to rudeness, yellow to ordinary, and orange to being strange or strong-willed. The claim spread widely on platforms like TikTok and Reddit, with creators testing and filming results. Several employees have publicly denied any intentional coding, stating that they grab random straws unless a customer requests a color. No definitive origin or verifiable evidence for a coordinated straw-color code exists, though isolated instances by individual employees could have amplified the rumor.
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