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[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 68 points 10 months ago

If you freeze it and eat it later that's called meal prep.

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The accidental LPT is always in the comments

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

If you freeze it and forget about it and instead buy another freezer to store more frozen food, that's called hording.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 58 points 10 months ago

Tupperware?!? In this household we wash the plastic takeout containers and reuse them for years until the become brittle and shatter.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

If you are still doing that, don't do it. Those takeout containers leak microplastics like crazy

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 10 months ago

Don't tupperware leak as well?

I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you're eating microplastics.

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Basically not / barely anything

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 months ago

Do you have any source for this information? If they're plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I've heard that they do, but for certain it must be less than re-using takeout containers.

I, myself, I've been avoiding all plastics and using strictly glass where possible

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

What do you call Tupperware? I thought any plastic container for food is that. Not necessarily newly bought.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

Tupperware is a brand. Calling all containers Tupperware is like calling all tissue paper Kleenex or all cotton swabs Q-Tips. Sure, many people do that, but it's not correct.

Also, Tupperware is expensive.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Kleenex is actually now the correct term according to the dictionary since it's so commonly used.

[-] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 10 months ago

Same thing happened to Trampoline. Trampoline was the brand. The generic name is rebound tumbler.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Velcro, Hoover (in the UK), Band-Aid; there are tons of them. I'd say Tupperware is at that level, even if not officially so. I'd even argue Coke is - even if I know a palce only does Pepsi, I'm still going to ask for a Coke.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

There are parts of the US where they use soda; parts that use pop; and parts that use coke. In the latter, the following conversation is normal:

Server: what kind of coke would you like?

Me: root beer.

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Being from a "soda" location, this conversation makes my brain do a double take.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is quite common in some languages. In Dutch they call plaster plates gyproc, tilt windows velux, a stick of glue pritt and there are countless other examples where an item is named, if not officially at least commonly, after a brand. And of course, also kleenex.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

That's hilarious.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Eh. Even genericized, tupperware is still only containers that are intended to be reused

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Or call acetylated salicylate an aspirin.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Plastic food containers that are intended to be reused are tupperware; containers that are intended to be disposable are not

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

So, is this JoMiran or the micropladtics speaking?

[-] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

We use butter and cool whip bowls.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 10 months ago

Where i from, some of us call it tupperware too, every plastic container is tupperware.

[-] gac11@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

I'm too cheap to throw it out. So my role in the house is to eat all the leftovers before they go bad

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

A few years ago I had a roommate who just did not give a fuck about food never found enjoyment in it. All the leftovers went to him he'd vacuum up anything completely neutrally. I miss him

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

It's me, I'm that roommate.

Well to be honest, I do enjoy and appreciate tasty food. But I don't mind eating plain bland food (as long as it isn't disgusting). I don't really have a high bar. If it's edible, in it goes

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

You wouldn't happen to live in the Seattle area and have a roommate opening in like a year would you?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same. My folks never eat leftovers. I patrol the fridge each day and assemble a cast of weird and wonderful characters to have for lunch at work.

[-] Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

My friends call me "the city council". Whenever we go eat at restaurants, my job is to clean out everyone's leftovers. I love it

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The joys of having children eventually. Leftovers are just meal prep for lunch the next day!

Establishing a leftovers night is the way to go though.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Sometimes I have even thrown it out with the tupperware because it's gotten so bad that opening that container would probably poison everything in a 100m radius.

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

You can freeze the bad ones (mark it as bad in case you forget about it) then dump it as one big block and take the trash out before it thaws.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago
[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

If you wait long enough, it will throw itself away.

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

in my experience its best to ooen those into the compost directly

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I call the bottom shelf of my grandmothers fridge the petri dish for this exact reason.

Constantly puts shit in tupperware, puts it down there, and forgets about it until i find it, and by then its become its own microscopic ecosystem.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

And I still eat it - unsweetened cotton candy and all

[-] DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

This is how new superheros are born

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This is also what keeps life expectancy lower.

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Am I the only one who thinks leftovers make the best breakfasts?

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

This happens every time because there is something else in the fridge that needs to be cooked so it won't spoil. Then you eat the new dish instead of the old one since you just made it and the old one goes bad....

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's pretty much like that.

Still, most leftovers are eaten... at least in our household.

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

But then you keep cooking new stuff because you don't want to touch the x-day-old food that you're not interested anymore and want something freshly cooked to eat. You'll get around to it evenshoely, for shooor

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I feel seen.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is this by chance a lasagna best before '97?
Source

[-] Exatron@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My mother once bypasses the refrigerator part and accidentally put leftovers in the cupboard over the oven. After a week or two, the smell had us thinking something crawled into the oven vent from outside and died. It took me noticing something bubbling up from between two casserole dishes to realize what happened.

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