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.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your comment made me have a flashback to my dad getting irritated at me for squeezing the middle of the toothpaste tube.

You're only supposed to squeeze the far end of a metal tube -- pushing product from the very end to the opening. Then as it gets empty you fold/roll up the flat bit at the end. You can even even buy "wringers" designed to assist with that.