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Weird, Rare, Forgotten & Discontinued Food Products

Electric_Monk said:
Sadly they seemed to stop at some point, and since it was basically causing children to provide a cleaning service I'm not sure why.
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I seem to recall that there was a major legal case, where someone had become ill after finding a dead snail inside a bottle of lemonade. The bottle had been brought back for recycling and hadn't been properly cleaned. The drinks companies all moved over to single-use bottles and stopped the recycling plan.

Edit: The case I'm thinking of happened in 1932. Donoghue v Stevenson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donog...hue v Stevenson [1932] AC,of the duty of care.
So... it can't have been that case - maybe there was another case in the 1970s that stopped it altogether? Or maybe it was another reason entirely?
 
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Fifty-year-old crisp packet found in garden​


An old quavers crisp packet in yellow, green and white colours, on a patch of green grass




A new homeowner has found a crisp packet from nearly half a century ago in his back garden.

Cenk Albayrak-Touye was renovating his home in Poole, Dorset when he made the discovery.

He said: "I dug up the turf in the back garden and found a load of items but it was the yellow packaging that caught my eye."
The Quavers crisp packet has the date 31 October 1975 printed on it, which links to a competition of some kind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cekl9vl4dx3o
 
brownmane said:
You can't unless you install Tiktac. Here's the product website:
https://www.google.com/search?q=no+...+tea&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari


It lists one of the bonuses as "no more tea bags to dispose of". Of course having aerosol cans and more plastic is MUCH better. Then it also states that it is "properly brewed". Anyone knows that it is the water used for brewing that affects taste of tea (or coffee) the most.:doh:
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What an odd idea! There is nothing greener than teabags. They can be composted.
 
kesavaross said:
I read somewhere once that the actual bag part of a teabag was made from banana skin.
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Not banana skins, but:
Traditionally, tea bags have been square or rectangular in shape. They are usually made of filter paper, a blend of wood and vegetable fibers related to paper found in milk and coffee filters. The latter is bleached pulp abaca hemp, a plantation banana plant grown for its fiber, mostly in the Philippines and Colombia. Some bags have a heat-sealable thermoplastic such as PVC or polypropylene as a component fiber on the inner tea bag surface, making them not fully biodegradable. Some newer paper tea bags are made in a circular shape.
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The Whopper I Was Served:​

Well, the bun is as advertised; a bright and rich purple. I’ve seen pictures of other customers’ buns (people send me unappetizing pictures of their weird food, it’s quite a life I‘ve made for myself). In some of the photos, the color was a little muted on the outside. That’s not the case here.

Ironically, purple was not the most disturbing color on my plate (or sandwich wrapper); it was the light gray tint of my burger patty. Have you ever seen a beef burger that looked so sad?!? Was the flame broiler on the fritz? Did they make me a turkey burger my mistake? Is the burger made weird intentionally to lean into the creepy vibes of The Addams Family? What happened here? (As Griffin succinctly put it: “Color of the bun? Outstanding. Color of the burger? Horrifying.”)


Read More: I Ate Everything on Burger King’s ‘The Addams Family’ Menu |
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https://screencrush.com/burger-king-addams-family-menu/
 
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