"Meat candy" does not sound very enticing, at least not to me.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
219 points (90.4% liked)
Mildly Interesting
17494 readers
666 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Quite a few east Asian countries unfortunately. The Asian grocery store down the street is probably 50% plastic wrap by weight. .
On an American note, I recall buying compostable Keurig pods in bulk from a company that advertised how comparing is good for the environment. I had previously bought them in 12 pod batches which came in one resealable plastic bag. I received a box of 72 individually plastic wrapped pods. I emailed them to check to see if maybe those were made off industrially compostable plastic. Nope.
Also looking at my kids' string cheese being wrapped and then individually wrapped makes me cringe. I have to find another solution for that.
I guess that last part would depend on how picky your kids are.
https://nourishingjoy.com/homemade-string-cheese/
Personally, I'd be like "fuck that, mom. I'm just not eating lunch today." Except without the "fuck" part.
Do yourself a favor and get a cheap espresso maker and just fill the entire cup and skip the plastic pods
Just use normal coffee or what I do is a small scoop of espresso then top it up with coffee. Makes a better brew than the shitty pods and no micro plastics
Make your own cheese strings. Get some decent quality mozzarella find the "grains" then cut them in line with em. And just reuse a freezer bag. It tastes better and your not killing the enviorment
The compostable pods are not plastic...or at least not fossil fuel based plastic. The pod itself along with the grounds goes right into yard waste. The pods that I do buy surprisingly come to about the same price I would pay for beans. My parents did give me a coffee pot but that is more for when I have guests. I'm the only one in the house that drinks coffee and it's generally only two cups a day.
I'll look into making my own cheese strings. Seems like it might be pretty simple.
Technically the pods are compostable but that needs to be heated to break down so if you live in a large city that does industrial composting it should be ok, but still probably produces micro/nano plastics. Where I live it's all naturally done.
Same thing is said about the PLA that I use in my 3d printer but has been shown that stuff don't break down naturally as ya would think
Good mozzarella is kinda squishy unlike the crappy bars that are sold beside cheddar/marbled bricks
Unfortunately the cheese inside the plastic wrap is going to be far worse for the environment than the couple grams of plastic surrounding it. The bigger zero-waste win would be to get them hooked on something plant based instead.