Real talk, this is exactly why I don’t blame the space given for this ice cream if the intent is to keep the panda intact. We got something called Bubble O’Bill here in New Zealand, and most of the time that shit doesn’t look remotely close to the packaging exactly for this reason. Let it melt even a little bit onto the flimsy plastic hugging the ice cream and it’s destroyed pretty quickly.
While some have known for ages, others were shocked to discover that Bubble O'Bill ice creams – which are shaped to look like a cowboy and a nose that turns into gum – has a bullet hole in his cowboy hat. And the individual allegedly responsible for the bullet hole is none other than Bill's older sister Bubble O'Jill.Jan 11, 2023
Unfortunately they use the same amount of packaging for a rectangular block of icecream. If you get a pack of oreos all the cookies are in individual packages. I'm only moderately environmentally conscious but I was horrified at the amount of plastic everything uses when I first moved here. I couldn't help but think how little swapping plastic straws to paper straws mattered back in Canada when China was doing this shit lol.
Bad with everything environmentally? No, I can't say that. I'm living there right now and they're not the devils western medias portray them as. Half the vehicles on the road are electric and you can tell by the green licence plates. The amount of solar power they've implemented recently trumps the rest of the world combined. China is huge like Europe huge in terms of population and size. They've certainly harmed the environment over the past few decades more than they've helped(though you can say that about every country), but they've recently really stepped up their game recently in that regard.
Nothing food rated that is expected to be touching food that could potentially get wet. Technically you can use glass but that is expensive, heavy, fragile, and logistically difficult to reuse and recycle.
Bulk packaging can cut down in waste but are you really going to eat a dozen Sponge Bob pops in one sitting?
Thats hilarious because I get a craving for SpongeBob pops or whatever popsicles have that same sherbet type consistency, and they're always deformed. Do people actually get grossed out when it doesn't look like the picture though? It's the same thing and is still brown or yellow when it comes out lol. Is it just not Instagram worthy? You expect them to be made at the gas station you bought it at, not realizing it spent weeks sitting in a freezer and hours being shipped, and then shipped again, and then again? I love buying fruits and vegetables marked down because their ugly, they taste THE SAME
I love the mangled Good Humor character popsicles! They're such a memorable part of my childhood. I remember very fondly the extremely low-effort Pikachu and Gengar ones, and also the Garfield one!
I've got the bestest picture of my then 6 or 7yo son eating a sonic popsicle at the beach...his chin, lips, and upper chest were totally blue, holding the mangled treat out like it was a gold medal 💙 thanks for the trip down memory lane lol
I have an awesome memory from the late 90s of eating an orange sherbert-flavored Garfield popsicle on the side of a wave pool in Florida in the summer with steelpan music playing. It was such an amazing vibe.
The product in the picture is from China, not Japan. (Packaging text is all in hanzi, if it was from Japan there would also be hiragana/katakana on the packaging)
Yup I know, I was just providing information based on Japan, figured china might have similar laws given the overlap in certain cultural characteristics
asian milky flavors are similar to the flavor of condensed milk. corn flavored sweets are also super popular in Asia which is more similar to what you're describing.
It's alright, just gotta season it properly and don't cook it for too long. But it's way too much effort to hunt, so I'd recommend just eating the ice cream instead
Not all paper straws were created equal, certainly. Low quality ones will start to get soft before you can finish your drink.
But even the nice ones bother me a bit, on a sensory level. I think because they aren’t as smooth? I definitely prefer the ones made from biodegradable plastic.
can you imagine drinking from a metal straw that’s been sitting at the bottom of a vat of dishjuice for 8 hours before being haphazardly splashed under a faucet and sent back out to the bar
We’re barking up the wrong tree about micro plastics and plastic pollution. You wouldn’t believe how much plastic is used in every part of (for example) products shipped to retail stores.
The packaging shown here has zero effect on its looks. It looks perfect because it's not actually ice cream. It's some amalgamation of stuff to taste and look like ice cream. Which honestly isn't probably that less healthier than just eating ice cream.
I was in Singapore a couple days back enjoying the same type of ice cream packaging, maybe it’s becoming the norm. But it does retain protect the shape and that’s what matters most to kids I guess.
I mean, the statement wouldn't hold up in an argument, but I don't think the intention of the comment was that serious. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but to me it just seems like a person sharing their own experiences and not trying to argue.
The thicker hard plastic is a sign that it is either made from recycled materials, or is recyclable itself. The regular soft plastics that are used elsewhere are not.
Pretty evident in my reply which names the country, while the comment I replied to has upvotes. You get used to it once you know what fires up the bots and zealots.
Estimated Reddit bot traffic is 30-60%, so it's easy to understand.
You're literally getting what you paid for. If there wasn't so much wrapping, you'd have deformed cat/bear shaped animal and you'd complain that it did not look like on the picture.
White people polluting and colonizing for centuries and now has the audacity to criticize Asian countries for “wastes”. At least China recycles, US and Canada are known to send their junk to Southeast Asian countries.
I'm genuinely confused how there could be less packaging. There's just an outer box, a container and a wrap on the container. That doesn't seem like that much to me.
No need for that tray. All we got as kids was a popsicle with a paper wrapper on (from the local ice cream truck usually) this is such waste and why we need to stop packaging with plastics. Plastic SUCKS, it comes off onto the food. Wasteful product. Wish it never been invented. 😢
People forget while they complain about la laying that prior to trumps last term Asia was the largest purchaser of plastic waste from the US. It has to be recycled or turned in to a plastic mountain. So if they want to recycle it into packaging that’s thinner and lighter then what we create for the western world. So be it!
The West loves to complain about plastic in their own countries and think they're actually making a difference, meanwhile the east has stuff like this and it's all gravy!
I fkin hate wooden utensils and cardboard straws. Give me plastic and stop pretending like we are actually making a difference when you have countries as large as China doing stuff like this.
Yes but also, they respect the food enough to ensure it’s perfectly served even after taking it home. The western world give it to you in a shitty doggy bag and call it a day.
Yeah instead in the west we just have slightly deformed ice-cream AND loads of plastic waste (Canada and the US have the highest plastic waste per capita).
Sure. Take a look at a bag of chips. The bag is half empty. If they kept the same amount of product but shrunk the package, people would think that they were getting cheated.
I loved the WWF ice cream back in the day. Yes I mean WWF. Getting the ultimate warrior or hulk hogan from the ice cream truck. The amount of packaging on anything nowadays is insane. Think of how many water bottles a day the world goes through. It's like there would be a massive island of garbage just floating around the ocean. Thank God we haven't gotten that bad yet.
Well, they charge the rest of the world crazy percentages on any imports. And focus on creating new jobs for their citizens. Although their pay scale sucks.
Everything I buy in Chinese shops is heavily packaged in plastics. I bought 3 of the same bread in bakery and they were trying to individually pack them in separate plastic and then another plastic bag for me to carry them all.
Anything I buy at Tong li will have a box covered with plastic and inside every single item is packaged in separate plastic. Most of the time even the box is plastic made.
OP is a snowflake and should stay inside if this actually upsets them. You’re the same person to bitch about it looking like shit if it was just in a plastic bag.
Touch grass bro
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u/WolfieVonD 16h ago
Without packaging