Pudding used to come in cans

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

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.
- You mean plastic coated tin for the metal option.
  
  It's baby-food glass jars or plastic somewhere.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
But it’s not that simple. Back then no one recycled the can and all too many wouldn’t now. The can itself was heavier and not as effective. Plastic truly is a wonder material for packaging / it does a better job of keeping things fresh, is more convenient, and saving that weight, saving the energy going into making a can, saving the weight for shipping, is all a benefit of a plastic. We don’t have anything that works nearly as well

We all need to face the idea that convenience items like pudding probably shouldn’t be sold at all, especially with how easy instant pudding is
- The group think around here is so crazy. Should we be using less single use plastic, especially the thin films? Absolutely. But the environmental impacts of mining all that metal and making all that glass to replace plastic with, plus the added energy for transporting the heavier packages and the cost of increased spoilage and product lost to dented cans and broken bottles, dwarfs the negative impact of the plastic replacements.
- I wonder how well PLA would work for food storage. I learned it's made with beets and can break down very quickly.
nah mate its always been HOME MADE what are you on about yall don't have a pudding sock?
- I have a clootie, that's pretty close

- And now I'll hear this forever.
No joke I just watched this episode which is what made me google pudding cans lol
Use my pen knife my good man!
- Monorail monorail
I hated that. And can openers just made things worse.
Use my pen-knife, my good man!

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.

Unbelievable that the chef told you lol
- I think he didn't want to take any credit for a dessert he didn't make
haha 😂

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

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.
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These tasted a lot better than the shit that comes in plastic. The way that coke in a can tastes better.
Fuck..... they do.
It's like we share a body
*and didn't take care of your body, yes even laborers, or had a rare degenerative condition or had a random, non age related accident

They were put there by a man

In a factory downtown.
- Movin to the country gonna have me a can of pudding

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.

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.
Same. Fruit cocktail, too.
- 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.
- I just popped open a can of fruit cocktail for the kids yesterday. It's a 350ml can, not a single serve. We portion into mini mason jars.

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).

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

When you don't have fresh fruits for the canning line, you can keep the lines busy with another product you mix up from a shelf stable powder...pudding.

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

You know what song it goes to. The bar was much lower back then.
- I don't know which songs you both mean.

I eat one 7 pound can of pudding with every meal

Do you drink it from a mug?
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They used to roam free on the farms until industrial food factories took over.

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

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

It was good af too

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.

I remember these from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- They could never have repaired the antenna on their time machine with plastic pudding cups, that would have just been silly.

Cool. Now I feel old.

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

They used to just squeeze it right into your open hands.
- Okay there, Ron DeSantis...
Box mix.

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

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

think Heinz do some tinned puddings too? The cakey kind though rather than creamy stuff, mind

I also remember those (in the UK) - tinned sponge puddings - not seen them in several years though.

Distributed by del monte tomato company, wild

Tbf Del Monte distributes all sorts of fruit/veggie related stuff, at least nowadays (In the United States). Used to go nuts for their peach cups when I was a kid lol
Before I read anything on the can, I was expecting tomato pudding.

"...and the taste is always shit"

I loved these... Does Del Monte even still make pudding?

We grow great taste

The Laura Secord brand was fire

(ymmv. I was a kid)

Dinty Moore still comes in cans ... and is better than ever (esp. compared to most of today's canned "food".

It still is a thing. You can find them online at least.

My family buys bulk pudding... By the handful.

Is that a plastic spoon?

Gross. Idk why. It just seems gross lol

Pudding in cans was the best, it just tasted better. Juice in glass containers was also amazing. Plastic changes the taste and leaches microplastics into our bodies.

I’m really hoping we as a society get plastic out of our products.
- I got so heated watching one of the congressional hearings where I girl asked Congress to ban single use plastics.
  
  The politician was so condescending and finished off with "we need a solution before banning".
  
  America had the solution before plastic... Cans and bottles.
- While I 100% agree with you on the glass, and a can doesn't change the flavour as much as plastic..
  
  Small cans have this smell (I guess skin oils reacting with the outside metal?) that you can't ignore when you eat right out of the can
Literally never have understood why a type of container makes something gross to some people.,.

Same thing with color of something. I mean, I at least get that in terms of color X is associated with Y... Just seems strange to me.

This is for wealthy families.