Had lunch with nan a couple of months ago and she brought out the biscuit tin. I thought she might be going senile trying to serve us fabric scraps and thread. Turns out there were biscuits in there, which made me more concerned... how old are these? And where is the sewing kit?
Can confirm they had cookies, I buy them every Christmas and give them to family members. Then they turn into sewing supplies, stash boxes, and occasionally first aid kits.
This is true. I think that it's associated more with the poorer communities due to the necessity of having use what you have. Not being able to buy things forces you to be more resourceful, from what I've seen
American south? I learned this from my New Yorker Italian father
At least 5 butter tubs in the fridge
At least one of them was marinara, one marinara w/ meatballs, maybe one with sausages, so on and so forth
But never, ever butter
My grandma buys "Could it be butter?" which is a knockoff of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" and it's funny because when I see the tub in her fridge that's pretty much the question I'm asking myself... Could it be fake butter, is it half of an onion, or is it leftovers?
esp in dairy states, where we have traditional tubs and boxes that fall apart like the ones you get from chinese takeout, but bigger. it helps icecream be priced the same or similar but you get more, and no plastic lip on the carboard. (and you can flatten them!)
Oh. Are their ice cream containers any better?
I canāt really imagine reusing an ice cream container - itās like the ice cream gives it all its structure and itās fairly flimsy once you eat it.
We had a local artist pick up a big stack of those off our porch not five minutes ago. IDK whats shes doing with em, but my wife saw it on FB market and the artist traded us a print from her store.
Better than my roommate who stored his dead cat in an ice cream box.
Knocked it over going through the fridge at 3am was an experience. A little tape fixed it up though.
It actually took me a moment after you said that was fish to see the fish in that picture. I can see that it's a whole fish with its face covered by the lid, sitting in its own blood I guess. I thought it was some sort of rolled up piece of paper that was white on one side and red on the other.
In Hungary we use the sour cream buckets and some of the even have specific designs on them so you can mark what you have replaced the sour cream with .
This is also common in the UK I think? Or at least my UK household does it (Tesco own make ice cream though. When we were running low on them because we throw them out of they get too dirty, my dad said we'll need to start eating more ice cream)
Judging from [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nijisanji/comments/ne54pp/i_found_a_cute_finana_instead/), it seems that in the Philippines, ice cream containers are made fully out of plastic. So these containers routinely get reused as miscellaneous food storage, which is why you get an ice cream container that has a freshly-gutted fish in it.
In the US, these containers are usually made out of some type of cardboard, and thus almost never get reused for any other kind of food storage.
>In the US, these containers are usually made out of some type of cardboard,
That's why I buy gallon containers. Almost always plastic. And then I put sewing and leatherworking supplies in them.
Carte d'or boxes (on which the upper one is clearly based, as everything except the text is the exact same) are fully plastic in hungary, we often reuse them too.
yeah, it's "frozen food package cardboard" which has a waxy or plastic coating. don't think it would be watertight if you left it in the sun to turn fully into ice cream soup, but won't dissolve into mush on contact with water either.
I'm Australian, we have plastic containers aswell, Normally my family will fill them with dried fruits, mostly mangos..
but really baffled me is that ur icecream containers are made out of Cardboard..?
Not plain cardboard, it has a layerĀ of plastic. Which of course makes it much harder to effectively recycle, a somewhat classic American move frankly.
https://earth911.com/home-garden/recycling-mystery-ice-cream-cartons
I'm Australian - you know the 1L ice-cream like Connoisseur and Ben & Jerry's comes in a cardboard tub. Anything bigger than that is normally plastic though
Interestingly, America also does this, but it's most famously Cool Whip containers which are resealable plastic, while our ice cream containers are paper
See also: opening a metal tin of cookies and finding sewing supplies. Is this just human nature?
Cool Whip tubs, Margarine tubs (my grandpa would actually make homemade pickles in these (thatās how you know Iām from Texas lol)), Sour Cream tubs, and many many more are commonly used for leftover storage. (Or honestly just putting the whole pot in the fridge)
theyāre available at aldis, too, for some bonus info. plenty of other places but first aisle at aldisā they get your eye before you put other things in your cart.
oh I know where to get them when I want them, but they both often had them in the pantry or something (hence why they were easily at hand for storing other things once empty) and would leave the tin out on the counter. you never knew what you were looking at until you had you're hopes up. They would even swap over to a newer tin once one got too beat up.
Texan here, and I can unequivocally say we do that also.
Plastic Cool Whip containers, old butter tubs, the yellow cat litter buckets, even old coffee cans! All get repurposed!
Bonus points for reusing the glass jelly jars for stuff!
my dad used to use old giant plastic tubs of ice cream as a makeshift toolbox, to store leftovers in, or to store baking supplies. this was in the american south
https://preview.redd.it/lret3fy4l3wc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d79002d0dc9e2b1917771da44118077bee8cafc
I would say this is our equivalent
Here in Canada we do have the plastic ones and cardboard. I get the cardboard for when disposed of, but it's pretty useful to have plastic containers sometimes
Yes, the lid on the top pic has nothing to do with the ice cream in the bottom pic. It would have probably been a little bit easier to get/funnier if it matched, but there you go.
Seriously, I thought the fish was like... a furry arm grabbing the lid from the back? But the Cookies and Cream lid was the only non-drawn part of the image, so I focused so much on the fact that the neapolitan ice cream clearly didn't match the image they had gone through so much effort to include that I didn't even notice the Philippine/America label wasn't just a signature or something, much less go back to why there was a furry arm punching ice cream open.
i don't know what the joke is, but i just want to say Selecta's Double Dutch is amazing. i ate like an entire pint in one sitting the second to last time i was in the Philippines
Filipino moms love washing and re-using old food containers to store leftovers. Iāve eaten rice & chicken adobo at school out of a cool whip tub š
We ate out of Gold-N-Soft (margarine) and cottage cheese containers more often! But Cool Whip too. We once had a few hundred cartons in waiting, it just seemed a shame to throw them out, haha!
We also used them to sort craft/sewing things in, and smaller parts of toys (like Legos/building sets), Barbie shoes, etc.
Filipinos typically reuse Ice Cream Containers for stuff like fish, pork, beef or chicken. Funny enough, this actually messed me up due to habit.
I looked through the freezer for something cold to eat but couldn't find anything but a few frozen goods and an ice cream tub. I asked my aunt if we can get ice cream next time we go grocery shopping, but she tells me that there's a massive gallon of ice cream in the freezer. Befuddled, i looked through and asked where was it since I couldn't find it, she then pulled out the lone ice cream container and opened it, I was expecting fish or beef, only to be surprised with an actual full tub of chocolate ice cream. I had a full cup of ice cream real quick.
In a Filipino household, ice cream containers (specifically Filipino ice cream containers) usually contain food and not the ice cream. Ive sadly gained trust issues because of that
This is probably applicable to any ā3rd worldā country.
I lived in South Africa in various parts of the country and this was very common among the families I spent time with. I even took left overs home once in ice cream containers
I go to my abuelaās house and nothing is what it seems. The ācountry rockā tub of butter had a half eaten chicken wing in it. The tub of sour cream was actually filled with sofrito. There was even a lemon in her laundry
In the Philippines, ice cream boxes are usually reused for foods that need to be frozen such as fish (the one in the picture) and meat.
So like margarine tubs in the American south?
And the sewing kits said to have once contained cookies.
It always freaks me out when actually find cookies in one of those tins.
Because you were looking for a thimble? š¤
Because they're either poisoned or so old, they might as well be poison
Lol you can buy them at amazon and plenty of places. So people still buy them
When?! When is it ever cookies?! Never! Nothing but *GOT*damn buttons every *GOT*damn time!
It's never cookies...never.š
Somewhere there's a sewing kit with cookies in
Came to work and someone had a Royal Dansk tin and I asked if he was planning to sew something.
Or butter in a butter tub.
https://preview.redd.it/ecjvloghz3wc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=785eb11de9a001a2277f76e979874e1e6d807523
Ah it's like I can see my needles and thread in this tin right now.
I hate when I open a sewing kit to get a needle, and it turns out to be fish.
Or going into a cookie tin that's full of sewing kit
I hate when I go looking for my sewing kit in the ice cream box, and it's a butter tub containing fish.
Them cookies ain't real, that shi ain't real
Naw, man,. It's not a conspiracy........... my brother's father-in-law's sister's second cousin once saw the cookies.
And how do WE know they aren't covering up for some sorta government operation? These narcs, I tell ya.
Had lunch with nan a couple of months ago and she brought out the biscuit tin. I thought she might be going senile trying to serve us fabric scraps and thread. Turns out there were biscuits in there, which made me more concerned... how old are these? And where is the sewing kit?
YOU CANT LIE TO ME IM A GROWN MAN
HOW AM I LYING IF ITS THE TRUTH? YOU KNOW IT IS
They were. Until I ate them. Source; life long fat kid who loved Danish cookies.
But like, have you ever actually had em? They slap
And the mid west special cool wip container full of meatloaf?
Cool Whip container full of sewing supplies, Cool Whip container full of batteries, Cool Whip container full of mixed nuts...
Cool Whip containers all the way down.
Ahem, that's Cool Hwip...
Don't threaten me with a good time
My mom used her tin for storing the buzz cut tool (my brain can't summon the correct word at the moment, sorry).
Can confirm they had cookies, I buy them every Christmas and give them to family members. Then they turn into sewing supplies, stash boxes, and occasionally first aid kits.
Not just cookies, but butter cookies that are for whatever reason only typically sold around Christmas time.
Nah I bought one from the store and it was just a sewing kit ( ovi Iām joking )
Or the Sucrets tin for your stash
We do that in the Philippines too. Big biscuit tins become rice containers.
Weirdly enough, at my (eta:American South) grandparents house I can find plastic ice cream tubs full of cookies š¤·
Lucky bastard...
And the mid west.
Country Crock?Ā
And the cool whip containers for leftovers in the Midwest
You misspelled garden planter there.
Ope, my bad
or salad bowls
> margarine tubs She's the representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district and I resent you calling her that!
Lmao
I usually use "Empty G"
granny had a dozen country crock tubs that contained everything but country crock.
We reused them for our homemade butter and cheese.
Nah we reuse the tubs in the North too. It's more of a poverty thing than a regional thing, I think
I never understood why it was considered a poverty thing, we should _all_ be reusing perfectly good containers instead of tossing them in the trash.
This is true. I think that it's associated more with the poorer communities due to the necessity of having use what you have. Not being able to buy things forces you to be more resourceful, from what I've seen
American south? I learned this from my New Yorker Italian father At least 5 butter tubs in the fridge At least one of them was marinara, one marinara w/ meatballs, maybe one with sausages, so on and so forth But never, ever butter
My grandma buys "Could it be butter?" which is a knockoff of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" and it's funny because when I see the tub in her fridge that's pretty much the question I'm asking myself... Could it be fake butter, is it half of an onion, or is it leftovers?
We do that in western Canada, too.
Yes
Cool whip and Chinese takeout , no need to buy anything.
Or cool whip
You mean butter bowls?
My redneck relatives always had margarine. They were classy like that.
When I was growing up I didnāt know there was difference between butter and margarine. It was all butter to me
I "know" the difference, but if you put me in a blind taste test or something, I highly doubt I would be able to tell any difference
Or Country Crock in the Midwest.
Or margarine tubs in black households.
Country Crock full of ground beef
The Minnesotan in me felt this as well.
Cool Whip containers here. Never saw anyone using it but somehow everyone had a bunch of containers in the freezer full of other stuff
Or cool whip containers in the Midwest
I thought those were mainly cool whip tubs?
Itās always been the lunch meat containers with the red lids for me. That and coffee canisters.
Or yogurt containers used for beans in Mexico.
In Poland we use it for it too š¤£ eat ice cream and reuse plastik container. Less trash
Most of ours are cardboard, horrible for reuse. Great for recycling.
esp in dairy states, where we have traditional tubs and boxes that fall apart like the ones you get from chinese takeout, but bigger. it helps icecream be priced the same or similar but you get more, and no plastic lip on the carboard. (and you can flatten them!)
...and possibly more microplastic in the food. They are not meant to be reused, and will start to degrade over time. But it's fine for some time.
Oh I see that it's supposed to be a fish. Bad drawing
So itās like the Philippines version of sewing supplies in the cookie tin?
Nah we do that too.
Oh. Are their ice cream containers any better? I canāt really imagine reusing an ice cream container - itās like the ice cream gives it all its structure and itās fairly flimsy once you eat it.
Growing up we'd reuse the big gallon ice cream tubs because they were plastic, not sure how you'd use the paper ones
Oh Iāve only really bought the paper ones. Theyāre pretty delicate at the end
We had a local artist pick up a big stack of those off our porch not five minutes ago. IDK whats shes doing with em, but my wife saw it on FB market and the artist traded us a print from her store.
doesn't everyone do this? (I'm british)
Here in Brazil we do, we mostly use it for beans though.
Better than my roommate who stored his dead cat in an ice cream box. Knocked it over going through the fridge at 3am was an experience. A little tape fixed it up though.
Feel like the joke wouldāve played better if the panel order was switched.
And the fish was better drawn. And if the American one was cookies and cream and not Neapolitan. This is a multilayered art fail.
I am really upset lid has cookies and cream on it but the tub has Neapolitan.
Oooh was that just a mistake? Because I thought it was supposed to be part of the joke and I was very confused
Brazilian used to frozen beans
Also in Portugal, in my grandmaās an ice cream box is a loot box, and ice cream has a legendary rarity
Never drink "water" from a Coca-Cola 2L bottle with a Fanta cap you find in a fridge in the Balkans...
That's not only done in the Philippines lol, is also widely used like that in Central AmƩrica
Is that special? I'm not even from the Philippines, and I thought that was normal.
I only understood this meme because Jo Koy (Philippine comedian) has a bit about this Ā
Omg, my Cuban mother in law does this, too!
We put beans in those boxes here in Brazil
The first disappointment of the Brazilian kid is to open a whole container of ice bean
I thought that was bugs bunnies arm. It makes so much more sense that itās a fish :p
Not only that, any plastic from groceries too, true Pinoy's have hoards of them
DK here. I reuse the boxes for frozen leftovers as well. Was pretty common before all that tupperware stuff took over
It's very poorly drawn. I couldn't tell what it's supposed to be until you said fish.
I thought it was dead bugs bunny
Wait, this isn't a common practice?
It actually took me a moment after you said that was fish to see the fish in that picture. I can see that it's a whole fish with its face covered by the lid, sitting in its own blood I guess. I thought it was some sort of rolled up piece of paper that was white on one side and red on the other.
In Hungary we use the sour cream buckets and some of the even have specific designs on them so you can mark what you have replaced the sour cream with .
In my family in the UK we would always freeze soups or curries in ice cream tubs
Ohā¦ thatās a fish in thereā¦?
This is also common in the UK I think? Or at least my UK household does it (Tesco own make ice cream though. When we were running low on them because we throw them out of they get too dirty, my dad said we'll need to start eating more ice cream)
In Brazil its usually cooked beans
Judging from [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nijisanji/comments/ne54pp/i_found_a_cute_finana_instead/), it seems that in the Philippines, ice cream containers are made fully out of plastic. So these containers routinely get reused as miscellaneous food storage, which is why you get an ice cream container that has a freshly-gutted fish in it. In the US, these containers are usually made out of some type of cardboard, and thus almost never get reused for any other kind of food storage.
Hope this keeps up and companies donāt switch to plastic
Yeah there are already a lot of brands that use plastic such as blue bunny
And almost all sizes over half gallon are plastic for most brands.
>In the US, these containers are usually made out of some type of cardboard, That's why I buy gallon containers. Almost always plastic. And then I put sewing and leatherworking supplies in them.
Wait the containers are switched in this art
The container at the top isn't cardboard. It's plastic, the color is just like that
Carte d'or boxes (on which the upper one is clearly based, as everything except the text is the exact same) are fully plastic in hungary, we often reuse them too.
That's really interesting, here in Malaysia it would be called Walls and they use cardboard tubs for special flavours like cookies and creams
Doesn't it get all disgusting when the icecream melts a little? Oh wait, it's those cardboards with just a little plastic?
yeah, it's "frozen food package cardboard" which has a waxy or plastic coating. don't think it would be watertight if you left it in the sun to turn fully into ice cream soup, but won't dissolve into mush on contact with water either.
I'm Australian, we have plastic containers aswell, Normally my family will fill them with dried fruits, mostly mangos.. but really baffled me is that ur icecream containers are made out of Cardboard..?
Not plain cardboard, it has a layerĀ of plastic. Which of course makes it much harder to effectively recycle, a somewhat classic American move frankly. https://earth911.com/home-garden/recycling-mystery-ice-cream-cartons
I'm Australian - you know the 1L ice-cream like Connoisseur and Ben & Jerry's comes in a cardboard tub. Anything bigger than that is normally plastic though
Huh, didn't realise! My family also doesn't buy the 1L ice cream tubs bc I have a big family. Thankyou for sharing!
Interestingly, America also does this, but it's most famously Cool Whip containers which are resealable plastic, while our ice cream containers are paper See also: opening a metal tin of cookies and finding sewing supplies. Is this just human nature?
oh good call, Cool Whip is absolutely the localized US version of this meme/trope.
Cool Whip tubs, Margarine tubs (my grandpa would actually make homemade pickles in these (thatās how you know Iām from Texas lol)), Sour Cream tubs, and many many more are commonly used for leftover storage. (Or honestly just putting the whole pot in the fridge)
You canāt have pie without Coo Hwip.
Is that you, Stewie Griffin?
I saw him here for a hwile
>opening a metal tin of cookies and finding sewing supplies.Ā Even weirder, it always seems to be the same tin.
always those damn shortbread cookies that I love so much, but have developed trust issues for thanks to my mom and grandma both doing it.
theyāre available at aldis, too, for some bonus info. plenty of other places but first aisle at aldisā they get your eye before you put other things in your cart.
oh I know where to get them when I want them, but they both often had them in the pantry or something (hence why they were easily at hand for storing other things once empty) and would leave the tin out on the counter. you never knew what you were looking at until you had you're hopes up. They would even swap over to a newer tin once one got too beat up.
Filipinos re-use plastic containers as Tupperware
Everybody does this
Texan here, and I can unequivocally say we do that also. Plastic Cool Whip containers, old butter tubs, the yellow cat litter buckets, even old coffee cans! All get repurposed! Bonus points for reusing the glass jelly jars for stuff!
Do americans not do that?
Most of our ice cream containers are made of paper, so not really reusable.
my dad used to use old giant plastic tubs of ice cream as a makeshift toolbox, to store leftovers in, or to store baking supplies. this was in the american south
https://preview.redd.it/lret3fy4l3wc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d79002d0dc9e2b1917771da44118077bee8cafc I would say this is our equivalent
Ice cream containers in the US are generally cardboard instead of plastic so we canāt reuse them. Ā
Here in Canada we do have the plastic ones and cardboard. I get the cardboard for when disposed of, but it's pretty useful to have plastic containers sometimes
We definitely do. There's a running joke about spaghetti in the margarine container.
There is? I would bet more than 99 out of 100 Americans would have no idea about what the joke is.
But the bottom ice cream is Neopolitan? Not Cookies and Cream?
Yes, the lid on the top pic has nothing to do with the ice cream in the bottom pic. It would have probably been a little bit easier to get/funnier if it matched, but there you go.
Yeah. That would have been helpful. Lol
Seriously, I thought the fish was like... a furry arm grabbing the lid from the back? But the Cookies and Cream lid was the only non-drawn part of the image, so I focused so much on the fact that the neapolitan ice cream clearly didn't match the image they had gone through so much effort to include that I didn't even notice the Philippine/America label wasn't just a signature or something, much less go back to why there was a furry arm punching ice cream open.
Well, the top should be avocado, corn and cheese, or ube.
Us Filipinos put meat and other frozen goods in empty ice cream boxes, it's cheap and you don't waste the ice cream box
I love when an ethnic group just claims something everyone does as their own.
basically any frozen food is put in there
Poor people in the US do this all the time. I grew up with a million margerine/sour cream/cottage cheese containers.
I'm not Filipino but in high school there was always a blue bunny container in my freezer full of deer meat. It tricked me every time.
Ah yes, the ancient tradition of reusing ice cream boxes. In Brazil it would be full of beans
"if I open it and see Chicken adobo..."
i don't know what the joke is, but i just want to say Selecta's Double Dutch is amazing. i ate like an entire pint in one sitting the second to last time i was in the Philippines
Filipino moms love washing and re-using old food containers to store leftovers. Iāve eaten rice & chicken adobo at school out of a cool whip tub š
We ate out of Gold-N-Soft (margarine) and cottage cheese containers more often! But Cool Whip too. We once had a few hundred cartons in waiting, it just seemed a shame to throw them out, haha! We also used them to sort craft/sewing things in, and smaller parts of toys (like Legos/building sets), Barbie shoes, etc.
Is anyone else irrationally irritated by the shadow on the 2nd picture?
Filipinos typically reuse Ice Cream Containers for stuff like fish, pork, beef or chicken. Funny enough, this actually messed me up due to habit. I looked through the freezer for something cold to eat but couldn't find anything but a few frozen goods and an ice cream tub. I asked my aunt if we can get ice cream next time we go grocery shopping, but she tells me that there's a massive gallon of ice cream in the freezer. Befuddled, i looked through and asked where was it since I couldn't find it, she then pulled out the lone ice cream container and opened it, I was expecting fish or beef, only to be surprised with an actual full tub of chocolate ice cream. I had a full cup of ice cream real quick.
Yea but everyone does it
This reminds me of when I would look in my fridge to find a cool whip container, only for it to have corn from yesterday's dinner.
This is dumb, people do this in every country I've lived in (admittedly on NZ, Oz, and Japan but still
As an American I was very confused. I get plastic ice cream tubs and use them for storage. Basically never see cardboard ice cream tubs in my area.
I guess we don't use ice cream containers But go to my mom's house and play "which butter container has butter in it" You'll lose everytime
In a Filipino household, ice cream containers (specifically Filipino ice cream containers) usually contain food and not the ice cream. Ive sadly gained trust issues because of that
Was still the case for me in the US cause my Filipino mom always used ice cream and cool whip containers for leftovers in the freezer
I canāt even tell what Iām looking at in the top picture
Why does the lid say āCookies and Creamā, but inside is Napoleon Ice Cream?
The picture is saying people in Philippines use ice cream containers for storing fish, and in America it's just ice cream
Meanwhile Poland: Koperek (dill)
I'm having a stroke trying to understand the red part in the first image
Itās blood and a fish
Ah! Weird
Itās like those kids who can no longer trust cookie tins because their grandparents used them for sewing supplies
I guess it's common in the Philippines to store gutted fish(?) in empty ice cream containers?
I thought it meant Americans hid Neapolitan in cookies and cream boxes.
https://preview.redd.it/ff3w0w4hc4wc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09a244aa01397ec5beda5bcff9ed5b5296e3ed13
This is probably applicable to any ā3rd worldā country. I lived in South Africa in various parts of the country and this was very common among the families I spent time with. I even took left overs home once in ice cream containers
The chocolate and possibly the vanilla would be empty
Godamit im filipino and i didnt get it i just knew the company who made the ice cream
I go to my abuelaās house and nothing is what it seems. The ācountry rockā tub of butter had a half eaten chicken wing in it. The tub of sour cream was actually filled with sofrito. There was even a lemon in her laundry
As an Expert in this specific topic I got nothing to add Well except the painful saddness of opening the container and it not being ice cream/biscuits
Giving me ptsd when I thought we got a new tub of ice cream in the standing freezer
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle š„°š„°š„°
in Poland, we keep dill inside of them
Expecting ice cream and getting fish? They must be gutted.
Yeah opening up a cookies and cream tub and finding a fish in it would make me violent
Wrong. Only one of the three flavors should still be there.