Hamburger Straws

About

Hamburger Straws refer to a Photo Fad in which a person sticks a straw through a fast food hamburger and into their soda. The fad became popular in Japan before being covered by western media outlets.

Precursor

Before the trend included hamburgers and soda, a similar trend spread through Japan with doughnuts and iced coffee. On November 19th, 2016, Instagram account dumbodc^[1] posted a photo example of the trend, suggesting the trend began growing popular in Japan late in 2016 (shown below).

Origin

The earliest known post to recreate the doughnut/coffee photo with a hamburger and soda was posted by Instagram account oym_^[2] on July 16th, 2017, gaining over 120 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the coming weeks, several other posts recreating the Hamburger Straw were posted to Instagram. The most popular with over 2,300 likes was posted on July 18th, 2017 by uwasalabo^[3] (shown below).

On July 24th, several examples were featured on 2channel. ^[4] This drew the attention of Kotaku, ^[5] who wrote about the trend on the same day. Several other media outlets posted about the trend following Kotaku's story, including Mashable,^[6] Select All,^[7] Eater,^[8] and more.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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