Plastic bottles in general should be illegal. It's cans, glass bottles, or GTFO when it comes to beverages for me.
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FYI cans have a plastic liner to prevent acidic foods from dissolving the aluminium, so there's still some plastic in it (much less then fully plastic bottles tho)
Glass has the best taste too, because it is almost totally chemically inert, you don't get the odd flavor changes that you do with aluminum cans or plastic bottles.
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I see a ton of comments here hating on nostalgic people, with no actual nostalgic people in sight yet.
Personally I don't care if a pouched drink exists or not, but if they are no longer producing pouched drinks they should probably retire the brand.
Do you remember what a CapriSun tastes like? It's somewhere between an extremely-artificially flavored "juice" concentrate and a "fruit flavored" drink like Kool-Aid. The whole appeal was the packaging.
It's quite literally a bit of orange juice, filled up with water and loaded with sugar.
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This is absolutely reeks of a bullshit "OMG the sky must be falling for you" condescending article from an older generation that thinks younger nostalgia is silly. I wouldn't give this article any more credence than a boomer yelling "Avocado Toast!" at you when you're enjoying a nice brunch. It's just needlessly sensationalist shit stirring.
I see a ton of comments here hating on nostalgic people, with no actual nostalgic people in sight yet.
…yeah you’re in a Lemmy comment section.
Sad, from a nostalgia point of view, but probably a win, environmentally. We have a pipeline to recycle plastic bottles, the mylar pouches are pretty much all single use.
We actually don’t have a pipeline to recycle plastic bottles though, right?
Bottle deposit systems are generally effective. In Sweden, 90-95% of the pet plastic in drink bottles makes it back to a factory to be used as raw material for new bottles. We don't really recycle the hdpe lids or polyester labels, though.
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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.
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Seconded. And trying to stab the flexing surface with that weak-ass straw.
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I very specifically remember the controversy 15-20 years ago when it was found that many of these pouches had mold in them, and you couldn't see it because of the pouch or even taste it. I'm sure the quality control since then has improved, but any time I see a pouch of juice, I think about that mold incident.
Right? But this only applies to Capri Sun. If it were Hi-C, you’d demand a juice box.
Also, the people who are currently in their childhood absolutely do not care. It’s just us 40+ curmudgeons that must drink Capri Sun from a pouch, Hi-C from a tiny box, and Sunny D straight from that wonky-shaped jug that won’t fit in the fridge door.
I dunno.. Anytime my kids see these pouches at a store, they beg us for them. We've never bought them at home either. I think kids just like the novelty of drinking out of a bag.
Oh no. I can’t relive the childhood frustration of being unable to access that sweet nectar shielded behind an impenetrable puncture-proof material with no tools to work with but the flimsiest of mini plastic straws.
I don’t know about over there, but here they’ve started selling them with paper straws. Making it even more impossible to puncture that stupid little hole while ruining the straw in the process.
And of course it’s the only thing my daughter wants to drink. I’ve had to resort to using a nail file to open those things.
I hate paper straws. There are many different compostable straws and paper is about the worst.
It’s like a game now. Can you finish the entire pouch before the straw disintegrates? Stay tuned to find out.
Then you push hard enough to punch through, and the straw goes straight out the back too.
First World Problems
Now this is a controversial thread
A bottle that's actually a drink vs. a pouch that's barely a mouthful? I'm OK with that...
It gets worse, they are switching the line to whoop-ass, it will no longer come in a can.
So, what!? Now I have to pop a straw in a pouch of whoopass?! What is this world coming to!?!?!
Dude don’t make me straw up this whoop-ass.
Hahahahaha!!
You gonna make me tear open a baggie of whoopass, if you keep going!
They need to go the other way. More drinks in pouches. Cocktails for adults.
Fine by me!...As long as whoever at Pepsi made the decision to only release Hard Mt Dew in "Zero sugar" versions is nowhere near it
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No this is good, I've been complaining about this since I was a kid and drank one where the straw got all clogged up so I cut into it and there was some creepy gross dead worm looking thing.
In the United States, Kraft and its former parent company, the tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. (now Altria), have successfully marketed Capri Sun using strategies developed for selling cigarettes to children.[2] American parents often misidentify Capri Sun as healthy, and it is one of the most favorably rated brands among Generation Z Americans.
I don't care about the nostalgia, but they are going to stop being easy to squeeze into a lunchbox now, so I'll find a different brand.
The article doesn't actually say they are phasing out pouches, just that they are introducing bottles.
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