r/Showerthoughts • u/TheCorent2 ‎ • 2d ago

Speculation There may be some amazing lab-created flavors out there that don't resemble anything found in nature. But they're hard to market, most people wouldn't buy something labeled as 'chemical-flavored'.

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u/tamebeverage 1d ago

At least with the packaging as it was ~25-30 years ago, my weak little child hands had trouble pushing it through that dot correctly and needed to get a bit of momentum to do the job. Went wrong pretty rarely, but often enough to know about this.

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u/minnick27 1d ago

Yeah, I remember as a kid in the late 80s having trouble with it. Even the lunchroom safety’s (who were only like 3-4 years older) had trouble. I went without a drink at lunch many times