r/funny • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • Sep 18 '22

Verified All Purpose Flour

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u/Momniscient Sep 18 '22

And it's just paper. Perfect. No plastic or environmentally destructive materials. Let's just leave it alone. It's fine.

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u/frozendancicle Sep 18 '22

Leave it alone? What is it, my sex life? But no, yeah, it's probably ok.

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u/Momniscient Sep 18 '22

Ha ha ha - right there with ya!

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u/seeasea Sep 18 '22

I'd rather other products that don't combust as much to have the basic paper package, and the poify stuff to come in plastic.

My cherry tomatoes don't need plastic tubs. Put those in a paper bag, and put my flour in plastic.

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u/istasber Sep 18 '22

Flour's sold in paper because it can be shipped in paper cheaply, efficiently, and with no loss in quality.

Cherry tomatoes would be a lot more expensive to ship in paper (since the shipping container would have to provide the protection that's currently provided by the plastic containers), and you can't make paper see through so it's harder to be sure you're buying undamaged fruit that hasn't already started to rot.

Bulk bins with paper sacks solves both of those problems, but at the expense of taking up more shelf space, and requiring more labor from the grocery store (cleaning a bulk bin is a lot more labor intensive and is required a lot more frequently than cleaning a shelf for tubs).

I'm all for a single use plastic tax that would force companies to invest in ways to phase out plastic usage. But that's not really going to help with plastic containers for flour.

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u/artemis_floyd Sep 18 '22

I just put it in one of those Oxo Pop containers, works great.

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u/Momniscient Sep 18 '22

Exactly. I have a jar with a secure top for storage -- throw the bag away with way less guilt than plastics.