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.
What about purple stuff?
Purple stuff must come from a bottle shaped like a barrel with a foil lid that hides sharp edges that cut your lips
Fabuloso? The cool kids don’t drink that.
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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! Anyway
I don’t get it. Am I too American?
Yep. It’s sold in Italy and it’s arguably better than Capri Sun. I’ve actually never seen Capri Sun in the supermarket shelves.
Pesca makes it sound like fish juice
That’s “pesce” but you’re somehow right lmao
Pescado is Spanish for fish.
Good, the packages can’t even be recycled. Corporations should be held liable for their plastic waste contributions via the packaging.
you only need to make them pay the price of each packaging every day until it biodegrades. you’ll see change very quickly.
They’ll spend 300millions in lawyer fees to find a loophole where they only need to pay one packet for the time it takes to burn.
You think the bottles are going to be any better? They’re going to end up in the ocean with all of the other plastic bottles from other drinks.
No, glass or stainless steel
Not aluminum? Have you ever seen single serving drinks sold in stainless steel?
Single serving things should be illegal, only things needs to be single serving is shit found in a hospital
Single serving containers for food have their place, but there’s nothing that can’t be stored in either wax paper, aluminum, or glass(in that order). Aluminum is probably the best balance between recyclability and weight(fuel need to transport . You can even make aluminum “bottles” that fit in preexisting vending machines.
No, single serving bulkshit should be illegal. Other than convience there is 0 need.
You could do the same with glass too, and as I’ve stated previously, aluminum needs a barrier, and normally is plastic
Those bottles in the image look like plastic. I can’t find anything indicating they are using glass or stainless steel.
PET bottles are very easily recicled. In my country a sizeable amount of PET bottles sold are 100%recycled PET
But only a small fraction of the plastic gets recycled.
If 9/10ths of the plastic ends up in a landfill or the Pacific garbage patch, having 1/10th of that plastic recycled into another bottle (which then will eventually have 9/10ths tossed in a landfill anyways) isn’t doing much. It’s better than not recycling at all, but it’s green washing to say that it’s “eco friendly”, which Capri-Sun allegedly did at this trade show.
Any plastic should be considered unrecyclable. At least pouches use less overall plastic then bottles.
Most plastics are difficult (if at all possible) to recycle.
I agree. Fixed my grammar.
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.
I get my sugar fix from a different brand now
The article doesn’t actually say they are phasing out pouches, just that they are introducing bottles.
Yeah thats fair.
The outrage might even be a result of corporate marketing strategy.
Maybe I should alakazam the post?
Seems they updated the article title, which now says the exact opposite of your post title.
Unsure if you can edit. Here’s the new title:
Capri Sun promises they aren’t phasing out pouches after reports of a switch to bottles ruined childhoods everywhere
First World Problems
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 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.
And - Rudolf Wild invented the drink in 1969
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
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?
Probably Teflon 🤣💀
Polyethylene and/or aluminum foil but iirc before plastics, it would have been wax.
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.
Being made from petroleum isnt bad. its a byproduct of distilling lubricates.
I’m in!
Seconded. And trying to stab the flexing surface with that weak-ass straw.
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Thanks Biden
Sir, I think you mean “Thanks Obama.”
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.
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.
179 post score seems highly nostalgic to me tbh
I invited myself because it’s an interesting article, nothing to do with nostalgia.
It’s quite literally a bit of orange juice, filled up with water and loaded with sugar.
It also includes flavoring (of which the orange juice is one). They come in more flavors than just orange.
THEY DO?!
Any chance you are thinking of SunnyD?
Meh, I’m well into my 40s and solidly don’t give a shit.
I’m proud of you! Letting go of your childhood nostalgia and stop regarding it as an unachievable goal and safe place to return to is a first step towards maturity!
Plastic bottles in general should be illegal. It’s cans, glass bottles, or GTFO when it comes to beverages for me.
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.
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)
We should really advance to “glass only” for single use containers (unless you have a really good reason to prefer plastic, like if it’s a medical product) and invest in the infrastructure to recycle them - a country can get up to a 99% recycle rate for glass if it puts the work in.
Yes glass is potentially less safe but my gut tells me that the risk of more broken glass is offset by the reduced air pollution and associated health risks.
It’s more that it’s heavier, so you have to transport a lot more weight for the same amount of product.
Secondary to that, glass can’t be shaped as compactly as an aluminum can or plastic bottle, so it takes up more room for the same amount of product.
There’s no perfect solution, which is why we have a lot of options.
I’m curious as to how the math works out comparing fuel burned per unit of product delivered for each container medium.
There’s no perfect solution, which is why we have a lot of options.
But in the category of “single use drinking containers”, all of the options besides glass carry with them more and worse externalities than what glass production and recycling carries. Which is why “having a lot of options” isn’t a positive in this case, it just means that a large part of the market is operating in a way that is more destructive to society than it needs to be.
I dunno. it takes a lot more heat to melt and recycle some glass that plastic. that and the transport weight is a whole lot of extra environmental cost.
and the whole separating by color thing in the recycling bins. best bet is to reuse the bottles for the same beverage by rinsing them back at the original bottling plant but that is a logistics nightmareit’s not a logistics nightmare, we used to do that until plastic gave us the idea of single use containers, many restaurants still do it with larger 1L bottles
also, while yes glass does have a really high melting point, most plastics never get recycled and instead get burnt, releasing a lot of toxic chemicals in the air (and even if they weren’t, you can only recycle some types of plastics, and even if you did, new objects can be made only by some percentage of recycled plastic, and never 100%)
What about Tetra paks?
Aren’t they as equally unrecycleable as plastic?
I can’t even put them in my recycling bin…which is where the glass and plastic goes.
Ah, but without plastic bottles how would we generate additional profits from the excess waste of oil production?
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.
Never knew anyone thought they were healthy. I mean I’m glad there is Vitamin C in orange Hi-C, but I know on the rare occasions I drink it that it is 10lbs of sugar in a 1lb cup
The problem is right in the Wikipedia entry - its still way lower sugar than most competitors. So for an on-the-go drink, when the cup from home is dirty… Yeah its a healthier option than the others.
It doesn’t make Capri Sun good, its just the others are so sugary that its one of the better options of readily available drinks.
healthier option than the others
shops sell water my dude
Kids can get more than water, its OK to have a treat.
Now this is a controversial thread
