Don't you just hate them? In restaurants they never bring enough of them. When you use them, you end up with horrid litter all over the table. And you know they have to be hell on the environment. No one is recycling these little bits of eco-apocalypse.
So you gotta figure there's some reason restaurants use them. Perhaps to advertise how déclassé they are. Or to mock our pretensions of class while we eat out. Certainly they mock by making them semi-impossible to open. Of course, one could assume there is an economic reason restaurants use them. Perhaps they are less expensive to use since than milk or cream in a larger container since, coming in pre-portioned containers, they cut down on usage. And since the containers are free of oxygen, they stay fresh indefinitely, leaving me to wonder whether if in fact the contents of these containers actually came from a cow. I can't really believe they cost less — certainly the cost to the environment is greater. And that alone should lead to a ban on these nasty plastics.
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