Mildly Interesting

And now they come in disposable plastic that's poisoning the entire biosphere. Progress!

If you're old enough to have cut your tongue on the inside of one of those cans your back and knees hurt.

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.

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.

I'm more surprised that Del Monte used to sell pudding.

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).

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

I eat one 7 pound can of pudding with every meal

They used to roam free on the farms until industrial food factories took over.

It was good af too

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

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.

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

Not trying to be rude, but what did you think they used to come in?

Some still does.
Je n'ai rien contre une boîte de Mont-Blanc, moi.