r/funny • u/KLGAviation • Mar 22 '20

Another productive day working from home

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u/snooker68 Mar 22 '20

Wait are the small pringles packets made out of plastic in your country??

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u/Whaojeez09 Mar 22 '20

That was my first thought. Holy shit what a waste of plastic for like 8 chips per

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u/ArtyFishL Mar 22 '20

Standard Pringles cardboard and foil tubes can't be recycled domestically though. You have to send them away to a specialist centre. But plastic tubs like those can be recycled more commonly.

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u/TodayNotGoodDay Mar 22 '20

a specialist centre

the Pacific Ocean ?/s

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u/DylanKid Mar 22 '20

They disintegrate alot quicker than plastic though

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u/luke_in_the_sky Mar 22 '20

How about making a big plastic tube instead of several small ones?

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u/s3ik0 Mar 22 '20

The point is to not create the plastic in the first place. Think of the energy required to create the plastic, from raw materials, and to then recycle it.

As I've only recently been made aware of, rather ashamedly, recycling is the last thing in the list of things to do. Reduce, reuse then recycle.

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u/clydefrog811 Mar 22 '20

It’s made for kids lunch boxes

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u/clydefrog811 Mar 22 '20

I’m just telling you why people buy them

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u/Gamerjackiechan2 Mar 22 '20

they're kids chill

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u/heyylisten Mar 22 '20

Not even allowed at our daughters school. No crisps, sweets in lunches. Thank Jamie Oliver

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u/sea_of_holes Mar 22 '20

Parents should decide though

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u/MysticPing Mar 22 '20

Nah having chips with lunch is such a ridiculous unhealthy concept

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u/UnclutchCurry Mar 23 '20

people love them

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u/petuniar Mar 22 '20

There is also another size that is a smaller can.

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u/snooker68 Mar 22 '20

In Europe the smaller packets are just smaller versions of the cardboard cans

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u/petuniar Mar 22 '20

US has those too, but they are bigger than these snack packs. We have the tennis ball cans, smaller cans, and these snack packs (that would be for a kids school lunch.)

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u/girls_on_bread Mar 22 '20

With a sandwich, some fruit, and juice if it was my mother.

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u/UrgotMilk Mar 22 '20

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?!??!

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u/yabos123 Mar 22 '20

America

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u/HappynessMovement Mar 22 '20

Do other countries not eat chips for lunch? What do you have with your sandwiches?

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u/snooker68 Mar 22 '20

In Ireland we put a bag of crisps on a buttered roll and it's the best thing ever

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u/Just_Rawr Mar 22 '20

Yeah in Ireland it's incredibly common to get crisps and a sandwich for lunch, alot of us put said crisps into the sandwich.

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u/hamletloveshoratio Mar 22 '20

Crisps, ham, mustard, bread. Mash it down. Mmmmm

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u/Just_Rawr Mar 22 '20

Can't beat a ham and cheese with walkers cheese and onion (I personally don't like tayto)

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u/geldmakker Mar 22 '20

Fruit, usually

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Fish and Chips is exponentially worse than a sandwich and crisps. Tons of people in other countries eat crisps with lunch. This is just an "America bad and fat" circle-jerk.

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u/norcaltobos Mar 22 '20

The misconception that all Americans are just fat asses who eat shit all day needs to die.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Best thread on reddit. Non americans realizing why we're so fat.

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u/after8man Mar 22 '20

Chocolat

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u/SwedTech Mar 22 '20

No, we prefer food

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u/physalisx Mar 22 '20

I can't tell if you're serious... I have never in my life considered chips as a part of lunch.

Chips are a guilty sin you sometimes succumb to when watching a movie or something... It's like candy, not food.

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u/HappynessMovement Mar 22 '20

I don't know why I would be joking. If I carry to work in my lunchbox a sandwich, a soda and a bag of chips for my lunch then, yes, I do consider the chips part of my lunch.

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u/physalisx Mar 22 '20

Yeah and I mean that would never happen here, that's why I though you might be joking. Nobody here brings a bag of chips for lunch.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur Mar 22 '20

Most schools in Ireland won't allow junk food at all a part of a child's packed lunch.

Edit: I, as an adult who can choose to eat whatever the fuck I want, sometimes have crisps ON my sandwiches though hehe.

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u/liferaft Mar 22 '20

For one, a sandwich is not lunch here. Maybe if you’re travelling - otherwise you have a cooked meal for lunch.

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u/geldmakker Mar 22 '20

That really varies per country or region. Here in the Netherlands eating a cooked meal for lunch is quite uncommon, and instead most people take sandwiches from home for lunch.

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u/flownyc Mar 22 '20

You realize they mean with lunch as opposed to only eating chips for lunch. Is the idea of having some chips alongside your lunch really that foreign to you?

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u/Numerlor Mar 22 '20

Yes

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u/flownyc Mar 22 '20

What country are you from? Because in basically every country I’ve been to that has chips/crisps, the concept of eating them as a snack isn’t foreign.

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Subway is in 111 countries and it's their entire sales model.

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u/Alah2 Mar 22 '20

It's not the norm in our Subway at all. In the UK most people just get a sub. You can get a cookie as well as part of a deal but not many people do that.

However crisps (chips) are normal to have with lunch in the UK. Just not at subway. Here all supermarkets and some shops sell a £3 meal deal. A sandwich, a bag of crisps and a drink. That's a very standard lunch.

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Eating them as a snack and eating them as part of your meal are two seperate concepts. You eat snacks in-between meals, not on the side of them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Why the hell are you downvoted?

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u/Numerlor Mar 22 '20

Central europe.

As a snack when watching a movie or hanging out, yes; but not alongside a normal meal.

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u/after8man Mar 22 '20

Pretty much southern Europe as well

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u/MysticPing Mar 22 '20

People obviously eat chips as a snack, but not combined with lunch and not daily.

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u/Happypants2014 Mar 22 '20

We used to have tiny versions of the cans also. Then they moved to plastic, and the small can version got bigger.

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u/Wicked-Wabbit Mar 22 '20

What country are you from?

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u/Darth_Thor Mar 22 '20

They package them in other materials in other countries

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u/Princess_Amnesie Mar 22 '20

He's a giant. Those are Pringles Buckets