Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere
Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere
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I have always, for the entirety of their existence, hated those dumb pouches. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned.
They made a really loud noise in the lunchroom if you inflated the pouch all the way, folded over the straw to seal it, then stomped on it really hard with your shoe. This was before mentally deranged people started shooting up schools though, so maybe don't try it.
Mentally deranged people have been shooting up schools since before Capri Sun was even invented...
How old are you?
I'm not going to look it up to verify, but I'm pretty sure Capri Sun existed before Columbine.
Columbine was far from the first school shooting. According to the Washington Post:
"The first recorded school shooting in the United States was in 1853 at a schoolhouse in Louisville, Kentucky. On November 2, 1853, Matt Ward shot and killed teacher William H.G. Butler with a pistol hidden in his coat pocket."
I think the very important point you’re missing is that schools did not exist in fear of school shootings before Columbine. There were no lockdown drills and crazy security measures for entering and leaving the building. So making a big loud noise would not make people instantly think someone was shooting up the school like it very well might today.
I'm not sure how I missed that from their first post. /s
I get it, you're scared. Noone was ever scared like that before.
Edit: I looked it up, mocked a false statement and declaration of ignorance.
Got downvoted. I'm not promoting violence, I'm mocking ignorance.
I think you replied to the wrong post
I was responding to you Coggy.
There were drills where you were taught what to do in the event of a life threatening emergency.
There were talks about nuclear events and preparation for scary things.
There were school shootings before columbine.
People didn't have national and international news poured into their faces as easily before.
I mocked the confidently incorrect assumptions of American school history and celebration of personally enforced ignorance.
And - Rudolf Wild invented the drink in 1969
I know it's not the first, I never claimed it was. But as someone who is old enough to remember what life was like before Columbine, that was the one that changed everything. That's when we started having active shooter drills.
Then 9/11 just amplified it.
It's that I've been in schools with after school activities in the last year.
Kids were popping chip bags and nobody drew weapons or jumped because of a loud pop that sounds nothing like a normal gunshot.
I was in school before columbine ever happened.
I don't think violence in is ok in most situations. I think America has a mental health and gun issue.
I like the Capri Sun mylar things from a nostalgic perspective.
The pouches seem like less plastic.
They have these revolutionary containers made from paper that is layered in order to make it hard and card like. Almost stiff as a board. And is capable of holding liquids and also breaks down very easily. 😒
What are they lined with to prevent them from getting soggy from contact with the liquid?
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Probably parrafin.
Take a wild guess what parrafin is made from...
Not sure if it has the same issues breaking down as plastic, but it's still a petroleum byproduct, so we should probably be moving away from it.
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Probably Teflon 🤣💀
I'm in!
Seconded. And trying to stab the flexing surface with that weak-ass straw.
Skill issue 😉
Unironically, there's a technique to it. I forgot how after I got older, and was genuinely frustrated trying to drink from one until I remembered how to do it.
You have to kind of service the top edge of the hole with the tip of the straw to soften it up before you guide it the rest of the way in.
Ideally? Food-safe wax.
Under capitalism? Literally PFAS, this was one of their more common applications.