And now they come in disposable plastic that's poisoning the entire biosphere. Progress!
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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This is why we need a plastic tax. If it was even slightly more expensive to use plastic they would switch back to metal or glass in a heartbeat.
You mean plastic coated tin for the metal option.
It's baby-food glass jars or plastic somewhere.
Correct. The steel cans are lined with plastic. Aluminum cans are as well for some products.
toothpaste used to come in metal tubes too. not even long ago. it's like they saw everyone else was polluting and they wanted in too smh
Not only that, they advertised recycling to push public opinion that it was okay to switch to plastic, because plastic is recyclable. But they didn't tell us, it's never going to be economicaly viable to recycle plastic toothpaste tubes.
It's not economically viable and you can only make lesser quality plastic out of it.
Nivea Cream used to come in aluminum cans, then they changed to plastic. Recently they announced that they would come back to aluminum. We can still buy in plastic, though. I think it depends on the market.
Yeah, but those metal tubes were awful. I have been brushing my teeth with Tom's of Maine for decades, and I remember how much I hated those metal tubes. They always split open weeks before the tube was empty and then they'd leak and make a mess and I inevitably wasted a lot of product. When Tom finally sold to whatever corp and they switched over to the plastic tubes that don't leak and let me use all the toothpaste I paid for, I danced a little jig.
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And now I'll hear this forever.
No joke I just watched this episode which is what made me google pudding cans lol
Use my pen knife my good man!
Monorail monorail
I hated that. And can openers just made things worse.
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Years ago, after a family camping trip, we stopped at a café for Lunch on our way home. My father, my Brother and I all saw Sticky Date Pudding on the menu and decided to order it as desert.
It was the most amazing Sticky Date Pudding we had ever had, it was the right balance of moist and dry, the caramel sauce was just the right balance of sweet, salt and tart without being decadent and the date was just the right consistency, not rubbery but with just the right consistency.
We asked the waiter about it and they told the chef. The chef came out to give us the recipe and pulled out a Tinned Pudding. All he had done was cracked the tin, poured it out and put a scoop of vanilla gelato on the side.
Unbelievable that the chef told you lol
I think he didn't want to take any credit for a dessert he didn't make
haha 😂
As a UK resident, I only know about these because Bill and Ted used some to repair the phone booth time machine.
You unlocked a core childhood memory. It must have been sometime around the late 1980s pudding started being sold in plastic containers and I forgot they had ever been in cans.
Oh ! I misunderstood the post. I thought it was about powdered pudding being most variety in the stores. There is still canned pudding and fruit coktail in France but also some in plastic.
Same. Fruit cocktail, too.
Ohhhh. Fruit cocktail.
Also, in the army it was the pouches of fruit salad or pears. If you lucked out and got that in your box, you could trade for a lot to the poor sap who got cherry pie and "lung in a bag" isn't doing it for them.
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Honestly probably better than the plastic cups they come in now. At least metal cans are actually recyclable (yes I know they still have a layer of plastic on the inside, but much less than a plastic container).
I'm more surprised that Del Monte used to sell pudding.
When you don't have fresh fruits for the canning line, you can keep the lines busy with another product you mix up from a shelf stable powder...pudding.
Jeez. I'm surrounded by kids. That's the way we ate pudding in the 80s. And we liked it that way!
You don't get that reference either, do you?
Sigh.
That doesn't go with the song at all
You know what song it goes to. The bar was much lower back then.
I misread that typeface, "a hit" really tried to be "shit" and it went from mildly interesting to meme material really quick. The s in always might have played a part
That's all on you. The a is spaced far enough away, lol
It was good af too
Remember the Benji movie where the kids used a pudding cup to try to catch him. Man, I wanted one of those pudding cups so bad.
Cool. Now I feel old.
Some still does.
Je n'ai rien contre une boîte de Mont-Blanc, moi.
Not trying to be rude, but what did you think they used to come in?
Box mix.
"...and the taste is always shit"
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