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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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

[–] mastefetri@infosec.pub 44 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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[–] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 81 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And now I'll hear this forever.

[–] wellee@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Prestron@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use my pen knife my good man!

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 50 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Unbelievable that the chef told you lol

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 50 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

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

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 21 points 2 years 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 16 points 2 years ago (2 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 2 years 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.

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same. Fruit cocktail, too.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

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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[–] other_cat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years 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).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (3 children)

That doesn't go with the song at all

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It was good af too

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember these from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Cool. Now I feel old.

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

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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