I got a milkshake a while back, in a plastic container, with a plastic lid, for some reason it also came with a plastic spoon, and a paper straw, since they are cutting down on plastics…
It’s why the EU voted in regulations today against single use packaging despite howls of protest from the fast food industry.
really? cool!
>go to mcdonald’s
>order hot cakes and a large orange juice
>receive hot cakes in plastic container, with six individually plastic wrapped teaspoons of butter and a plastic tub of high fructose corn syrup and a large plastic cup of orange juice
>throw away plastic straw
>pull out reusable metal straw
>I’m saving the environment one breakfast at a time
Ha ha in France they just stopped giving you straws. The paper cup for the drinks just said on it something like "To drink, remove lid and lift cup. You’re not an infant " lol
Now they have those reusable cups and fry holders, which are suspiciously smaller than the paper ones
Only thing I noticed that was single use plastic was the little tub of sauce
"To drink, remove lid and lift cup. You’re not an infant "
Based as fuck.
Just eat real cheese, not this processed crap that’s so gunky it sticks together. Double win!
The “process” is melting, and the “crap” they add is milk and phosphates.
Calling Kraft singles “not real cheese” is the equivalent to calling a sauce Mornay “not real cheese” - technically correct I guess, but its still made out of perfectly safe ingredients and serves it’s purpose well.
Took a lot of digging to find a sane comment. No one is putting singles out on the charcuterie board, but it has a purpose, and it does it well.
The “process” is melting and adding emulsifying agents, vegetable oils, unfermented dairy ingredients, salt, food coloring, and sometimes sugar. the end product typically contains about 50-60% cheese.
and no, a mornay is not a cheese, its a sauce.
You’re describing the process for almost every packaged cheese
They used to sell it without the wrappers though too. But now it’s so unpopular that they often only have tv he individually wrapped ones.
I buy this stuff once a year for smash burgers in the summer. Use the rest up for grilled cheeses and then try to forget imitation just wasted all that plastic.
Well in this case plastic for plastic seems fine
this rhetoric is so fucking exhausting, how many people litter this kind of plastic packaging? when do you see someone throwing plastic out the window of their house???
we’re getting rid of plastic in TAKEOUT packaging because people will merrily toss that out the car window as they speed down a highway with a burger in their hand, it’s not rocket science to figure this out.
fucking facebook-level post
Remember when fruit stickers used to be paper and biodegradable? Now they’re all fucking plastic because they need their logo to be shinier.
There’s more plastic in that “cheese” than there is in a straw
Why the fuck didn’t Twizzlers capitalise on the non-plastic straw market?!
Cheese like this always tastes gross.
This is not real cheese, it is american cheese.
For the record, good American cheese does exist. It’s just a blend of cheddar and Colby with some annatto for seasoning, instead of the extruded “cheese product” stuff in plastic wrappers.
Banning straws and bags has nothing to do with the environment. It’s just cheaper for corporations to not offer them.
I’ve just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic
That’s because all you absolute fucking babies are still crying they took your plastic straw away.
The reason we don’t have sensible climate conversations leading to real action is because the SLIGHTEST thing anyone suggests and you fucking scream your toddler heads off for years!
Ask me how I know we’re not gonna reach our climate change reduction goals.
We’ll reach them once everyone dies in the hunger wars of 2088
my mom used to buy that crap along with nasty white bread. she still microwaves food on plastic plates that are decades old with visible knife cuts and bacteria stains in them. she used to be a life long democrat like our blue collar grand parents. Now she wants to stop immigrants even though she wouldn’t recognize any and doesn’t live anywhere near a border and she’s already retired.
Anyway, don’t eat that cheese, pick something else and don’t turn into a dick when you get old.
I really want American cheese that is not wrapped in plastic. Kraft makes it but it costs more than double the plastic wrapped stuff. I’ve paid that price when times were plenty but they are no more.
There are several things that I could name that I used to buy back when times were plenty but no longer.
Gone are the days of being properly fed off a normal wage.
Just use Swiss Cheez, it’s spreadable. I don’t eat anything without it.
Ban plastic straws…but let’s just make sure the american public forget the the US blew up the nordstream pipeline and some oil company set an area of the ocean on fire when an oil spill happened
Two things: these are basically plastic anyways.
Also, the plastic straw thing was a PR move. Corporations don’t give any shits unless it will make money or lose them money.
I’m sure there was a nontrivial number of customers who either boycotted or threatened to boycott companies that didn’t switch. When their bottom line gets threatened like that, they take action to prevent revenue loss.
Nothing more. There’s way more problems with everything than plastic straws. My favorite PR move is how they convinced everyone that their cars are causing the majority of CO2 emissions from transit… Between that and airplanes, everyone is up in arms about the electrification of everything… Yet, the most major transport offenders are freight, and they have no plans or intention of changing their ways. I heard somewhere that if you were to have zero carbon emissions for your entire life, you would save the approximate amount that freight liners emit in a year, at most. I think a year is too long. I forget the exact figure.
They emit more CO2 than all the cars, and all the planes and everything else you could point to… Yet, I have yet to hear anyone tell me about it, either personally, or on the news or anything. Everyone seems oblivious to the facts. They latch on to these “issues” like straws and personal vehicle CO2 emissions which are trivial…
