Any four-year-old that could figure out how to stick their tongue up a candy machine would easily be able to contaminate this candy too. If we're building the entire world based on what four year olds will stick their tongue on then there is no vending device in the world to solve the problem
All you'd need is a 9 volt battery, and a couple conductive studs. With a plastic dispensing chute, put two studs on the inside about 2.5cm apart. Connect the positive to one, the negative to the other. If someone sticks their tongue in, it does the same thing as putting your tongue on a live battery.
One or two jelly beans should not be the candy bin at a barber or something, a hard candy is much more appropriate for something like that jelly beans are not a good single candy candy
It's so the person offering them can have them in a bowl for people to grab a hand of them (or several types of wrapped candies) without dirtying up all the other ones. I still think it's dumb and wasteful, but not for the reason you've stated.
No I get that, I think individual jelly beans is a stupid fucking size. The size makes sense for hard candy but jelly beans should be in like little packages with at least three or four. You're going to have people grabbing like six of these in individually unwrapping each one and it makes no sense especially from the perspective of the candy store selling it that clearly has other unwrapped candies in the bins in this picture around it
This is the correct sub and if you don't understand why, you are also mildly infuriating
Edit: really surprised at the down votes when the original is positive. I didn't imagine redditors like the plastic pollution. It's like the pealed banana in a plastic bag product.
I think people are misinterpreting you saying “this is the correct sub” as meaning THIS sub. They think you’re saying that actually it should only be on mildlyinteresting and you’re disagreeing with the recommendation. When really you mean the opposite.
You might need another edit, your first comment sounds like you are saying that this picture is mildly interesting and belongs here rather than what you are actually trying to say
Well, Its too late now. I can't help if redditors immediately jump to the worst read and run with it. Good lesson to remember implied context does not always read how you imagine it will
It's not, "the worst read..", though, it's the correct read from how you phrased it. Saying "That", or, completing the thought, "Your suggestion is the correct sub", would have better conveyed your thought.
Your comment really doesn't read like you were agreeing at all. "This is the correct sub" really sound like "the sub we are currently in is the correct one".
That paired with the insult despite literally now one disagreeing with you yet makes the comment also feel unnecessarily hostile, so people aren't really being primed to read it in a positive light.
Basically, people thought you were advocating for the plastic waste while being an asshole to boot.
Yea, I get it. I generated -100 in like 5 minutes. The implied context of it being a reply under the main thread just wasn't there for the cursery reader I guess.
You definitely should have said, "That is the correct sub,", saying, "This is the correct sub,", in this context can really only lead to the conclusion everyone had. People tend to think of the sub they're currently in as an area, like a physical space. So with that in mind, "this sub" is where we currently are, "that sub", would be one someone mentioned in a comment.
I mean, it's only interesting if you disagree with my previous comment. I can kinda see how you meant what you say you meant, yes, but your initial comment implies the opposite of what you meant and your edit doesn't actually clarify anything, it basically just says that you didn't mean it that way and don't understand why people don't see that.
Back in the 90s we used to get my diabetic grandmother sugar free jelly bellys and they came individually wrapped like that. I assume it's to slow you down so you don't get the haribo poops from too much artificial sweetener.
All I remember from one I heard was “I was begging god to kill me” and genuinely it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard in response to a gummy bear
But then if you eat the wrapper doesn't that just defeat the purpose of having a wrapper? You're now eating something that was just getting touched and contaminated by god knows what.
So then that defeats the purpose of wrapping it in rice paper. Because it's not really protecting the candy, it's being protected by the actual wrapper. It's more like a rice paper coating that's just part of the food. Rather than a wrapper that just happens to be edible.
These are candies that would stick together in even mildly humid environments without individual wrappers, and they chose rice paper rather than plastic. The rice paper isn’t to keep them clean, that’s what the plastic bag they collectively come in is for
I'd imagine the wrapper wouldn't taste very good. It being edible means it should be able to just be thrown on the ground and it'll dissolve or an animal will eat it, rather than plastic that would stay there basically forever.
Particles of everything float around constantly and things can travel down to your hands after you washed them, I'm sure it's not as bad but you're still eating someone's particles.
I mean, yeah sure. Technically you're never going to eat anything sterile. But there's a difference between a couple parts per million of dirt landing on your food, and a wrapper that been touched by potentially hundreds of people and probably dropped on the floor at least once.
My assumption is to prevent people from scooping and eating without paying.
When I was REALLY little, since there was no wrapping and I saw some adults sneak a few, I thought the candy was free and would always eat a few things out of those bins. One day my mom saw and explained the whole process and I never did it again, but I most definitely saw adults continue to.
This would make it a lot harder to just pop in your mouth lol
If you believe people aren't putting their bare-ass grubby hands in there, I have a sticky bridge to sell you. I shop at WinCo, I've seen the horrors of the bulk candy section.
Duh!!! 🙄 Do you think the scoop is gonna protect ppl from still sticking their hand in? Probably not. But let’s downvote me to hell because yall don’t understand
There has been self serve jellybeans from a bin since the damn Victorian era and it's fine. They're behind a shield and you scoop them with a spoon. Individual plastic wrap is bonkers.
Have you seen how Jelly Belly has theirs? It's from a gravity-fed dispenser so beans that come out can't go back in. Keeps the public from handling them and you don't have to make my own personal hell by individually wrapping them.
Nah. I’m gonna stick with the fact that yall are fucking stupid. And clearly nobody read my original comment. So you can downvote all you want. Am I supposed to cry about it now or what?
Why is it the folks who come out to defend the most obvious examples of waste always have the same line? Stop “getting” things this stupid. I am once again mildly infuriated.
Nitpicking someone for hyperbole is stupid and petty even when they're wrong. The problem theyre talking about is even a real potential problem, its just that this is such an awful solution to it that its a bigger problem than what it's trying to solve.
Because who wants jelly beans after 400 hands have entered that container? I’m sure you’d want to buy them with the thought in your mind that ppl were touching them
So the correction is wrapping every single jelly bean? Holy overcorrection and pollution, not to mention adding to the micro plastics we already have in us
No. Thats not the correction. And I never said it was. How about yall read my original comment and stop arguing with me over something I never tried to defend. I simply pointed out why they might have done it, and you mfs are doing everything in your power to argue with me about it
I didn’t point out a problem… yet you keep telling me that. I just stated why they might be wrapped and everyone shit on themselves. That should have been the end of it…. Yet here we are dragging it out
Every time I see something like this and get upset I remember that I work in a grocery store, I see how much plastic and trash we produce daily and we are 1 store of probably a million in the country producing this much trash daily.
People are saying it's cause everybody touches them but like... you're gonna put your hands all over the wrapper when you're eating them, so anything on the wrapper is getting in your mouth either way.
Coworker told me a story of how he was filling the self serve gravity fed bins with unwrapped candy of some kind. Just as soon as he'd topped it off and turned to put away the bag, some kid ran up and stuck his hand right in and grabbed a bunch. His mother didn't even say anything. Had to shrink out (then) $70 worth of candy.
You joke but it was funny watching the morons say mask don’t work then sneeze everywhere and not see the irony. They were so dumb they thought the masks filtered the air.
Good time especially with air travel watching these “Alpla males” get kicked off flights and banned over a mask.
One flight to Cancun was the best because the husband and wife on or flight got physically removed all over a mask.
The paper masks they gave everyone are droplet protection. They catch bigger particles from YOUR breath, sneezing, and talking. They help protect other people when you aren't aware you're sick yet.
They are not 100% effective, but that does not mean the "do nothing"
Your little piece of cloth did less than they did, and you actively made the problem worse by spreading misinformation like this.
It's not that masks do nothing, it's that most people weren't wearing the correct type of mask. N95 masks do actually work, but those paper thin bullshit ones hardly do anything. I'd definitely prefer someone coughing or sneezing into a mask than doing it right onto the person they're standing next to because they have absolutely zero common sense.
My wife won’t let me buy or use plastic straws without a lecture but motherfuckers are making tens of thousands of individually wrapped jelly beans with no signs of stopping
I wonder if they still charge by the pound, and how much additional weight is added due to packaging. I know it’s not much, but it would add up over time.
These at least look like jumbo beans, slightly larger than the regular ones.
I'm so curious what the math is, if this thin film of plastic ends up being less overall plastic waste than one of those tiny packs of like 20 jelly beans.
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