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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 135 points 10 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] mastefetri@infosec.pub 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean plastic coated tin for the metal option.

It's baby-food glass jars or plastic somewhere.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Correct. The steel cans are lined with plastic. Aluminum cans are as well for some products.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's not economically viable and you can only make lesser quality plastic out of it.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] yacht_boy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 81 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And now I'll hear this forever.

[–] wellee@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

No joke I just watched this episode which is what made me google pudding cans lol

[–] Prestron@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use my pen knife my good man!

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 51 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

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!

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unbelievable that the chef told you lol

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago

I think he didn't want to take any credit for a dessert he didn't make

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

Pudding might not come in cans anymore, but I still do!

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 21 points 10 months ago

As a UK resident, I only know about these because Bill and Ted used some to repair the phone booth time machine.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

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.

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

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).

[–] other_cat@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Heisenburner@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't go with the song at all

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You know what song it goes to. The bar was much lower back then.

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It was good af too

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

That's all on you. The a is spaced far enough away, lol

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Cool. Now I feel old.

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Marcumas@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember these from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They used to just squeeze it right into your open hands.

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