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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I have always, for the entirety of their existence, hated those dumb pouches. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned.

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mentally deranged people have been shooting up schools since before Capri Sun was even invented...

How old are you?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not going to look it up to verify, but I'm pretty sure Capri Sun existed before Columbine.

[-] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago

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."

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

And - Rudolf Wild invented the drink in 1969

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

The pouches seem like less plastic.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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. 😒

[-] hark@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

What are they lined with to prevent them from getting soggy from contact with the liquid?

[-] TurdMongler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Probably Teflon 🤣💀

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Seconded. And trying to stab the flexing surface with that weak-ass straw.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

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