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.
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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
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If you're old enough to have cut your tongue on the inside of one of those cans your back and knees hurt.
Literally in the waiting room at the doctor's office for back pain right now lol. That edge on those cans is so fucking sharp.
Good luck! I've had back issues in the past and it's the worst pain I've felt. The only advice I can give is to do the exercises they tell you to do. They actually help!
These tasted a lot better than the shit that comes in plastic. The way that coke in a can tastes better.
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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 😂
Pudding might not come in cans anymore, but I still do!
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.
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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
They used to roam free on the farms until industrial food factories took over.
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
Cool. Now I feel old.
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.
Not trying to be rude, but what did you think they used to come in?
Box mix.
In the UK Ambrosia still does rice pudding and custard in a can, I think Heinz do some tinned puddings too? The cakey kind though rather than creamy stuff, mind.. In case anyone really must lol
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