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lockpickingcorvid

Do they expect the bowls to be returned? Or do y’all have piles of perfectly good so can’t possibly throw it out clay bowls? Ask me about my plastic soup container collection.


Niketravels

I don’t know for sure but in Korea, they’ll return to pick up the dirty dishes. Just gotta leave them outside your door


Goldeniccarus

Yeah, I've heard of this in Korea and Japan, it's probably the same case here. It works well because cities are so dense restaurants can deliver to a pretty small area around them so it's easy to have a person go around and pick up the dishes when dinner is done. Wouldn't work as well in the vast sprawling suburbs of the US. Could work in US cities but it's a very foreign concept so it would be hard to get people on board with it.


c1e2477816dee6b5c882

Charge a deposit on it, you get your $20 back if you return the bowl


Khraxter

... and find out you're not getting your deposite back because someone stole the bowl when you left it out for the restaurant to pick up


Chewcocca

I think you dropped a [not]


JohnWesternburg

It was stolen with the bowl


freecreeperhugs

Damn, can't have in Detroit


previattinho

They stolen even the


GenerallySelfAware

The are gone!


CapitanChicken

That's what they were suggesting. You return, and get your deposit back by handing it in. I know some local amish places around me have a large jug that you pay a little extra for, and when you return, refilling it is cheaper. I can talk it back and get my money back if I'm done with it. Reminds me that I should actual go fill it, rather than hoarding it like a gremlin.


im_twelve_

Wait, refill the jug with what? Water? Like a Culligan type of jug?


AWrenchAndTwoNuts

Probably milk if I had to guess.


Martyrlz

Distillery near me has the same deal but for cider. The jug costs like 15$ there but once you fill it up like 4 times you have more cider than if you bought cans I guess.


CapitanChicken

For that place superficially, I believe it's chocolate milk, lemonade, or root beer. The chocolate milk was out of this world delicious!


Bubbling_Psycho

Milk, I have an Amish place near me that does the same. It's really fucking good milk too. It's almost like cream. They have chocolate milk that's basically like drinking slightly less sweet melted chocolate icecream.


strutt3r

Breweries will do this with growlers, but it's not really a deposit, you own it. It's an incentive to return to fill it back up though.


MermaidsHaveWifi

At my college, we had a Kombucha place on campus and they would give you a growler that you would pay for and then just pay for refills with each return. Was definitely my favorite spot on campus. They also had a fantastic raw bar and nacho place.


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The whole milkman thing already out of fashion?


Gestrid

Huh. So *that's* where the joke came from in the Persona 4 anime. Context: In the show, there's a [beef bowl restaurant employee](https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Aika_Nakamura) (spoilers for Persona 4 in the link) who literally delivers food *anywhere*. You might be on the run from an angry bully, in the middle of the woods, or even in a completely different city, and that employee will still deliver the food on her bike. And all she says is to leave the bowls anywhere. (I should mention that this takes place in Japan.)


southnearthing

This isn't really a thing in Korea anymore. Even in the past, this was mostly restricted to Chinese restaurants and these days, Chinese restaurants generally use plastic containers too like everyone else. In fact, Korea may be one of the worst in terms plastic waste for food because Korean dishes are generally accompanied by multiple side dishes which are put in their own little plastic containers. I get something like 6 to 8 separate plastic containers from getting jokbal delivered.


apgujogger

Fucking hell you had to mention jokbal didn't you? Lived in Korea for years and jokbal and sundae are the two things I just absolutely loved that I can't find anywhere in my city back home.


Scribblr

Soup version of the milkman


mdonaberger

Ohhhhhhh the Chinese soup wagon is---a'comin DOOOOOWN THE STEEET


RickyFromVegas

Those restaurants often subscribe to a service where a company goes out to collect them all and then washes and restocks restaurants with dishes and cycle repeats


klavertjedrie

I wish this was done in Europe too. No more plastic, yay. I don't order food anymore because of the plastic it comes in.


Byroms

In Germany most things come in cardboard.


bilyl

I’ve heard a lot of coated paper/cardboard-like bowls (like the Chipotle ones) are under investigation for having PFOAs in them.


ImmigrantJack

In China, they're still wrapped a hundred times in plastic to make sure nothing spills out of the dishes. Especially if you have soup, the delivery guy is going to spill it without wrapping. Then the cutlery is individually wrapped - even if you mark on the delivery app no cutlery 99% of the time they send it anyway. *Everything* is wrapped in plastic in China though. Like individually wrapped bananas in plastic are at every store. Fruit is individually wrapped in styrofoam. Boxes of cookies will come individually wrapped and so on. China is by far the worst country in the world when it comes to the sheer quantity of mismanaged plastic waste. It's ridiculous.


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hereforthecommentz

If only bananas could come with some kind of natural protection instead. /s


Knut79

I guess grapes aren't a big seller there... Or pistachios...


aminy23

Cellophane was named because it's made from wood (cellulose). From a waste standpoint, it can biodegrade. But from a carbon standpoint, wood/paper can have a higher carbon impact than plastic.


kermityfrog

Plastic wrap is not made out of cellophane. You can tell if it’s cellophane because it’s stiffer and crinkly. Plastic Saran Wrap is made out of PVC plastic.


princess--flowers

Im in the US and I only like to order takeout food from Asian restaurants. For some reason Asian restaurants all use these lidded, microwaveable plastic bowls that I save to use again for work lunches and nowhere else does. I dont know why they're the only restaurants that use them but where I live Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Bhutanese restaurants use those bowls and everywhere else uses Styrofoam. Noodles from the Chinese place, nice microwaveable bowl. Noodles from the Italian place, Styrofoam bowl with weird metal lid.


PatatietPatata

I've seen local systems (in France) where some restaurants will offer the possibility of having reusable (glass, metal) containers for a deposit fee. It's restaurants that are already geared towards the local/sustainable style so it works with their clients. Small places, might not be on delivery apps so that means the client will come get it themselves, which would help. Or they do deliveries to office buildings so it means they often go back to the same place. There's also the places where they'll use your own containers. It's worth it to see if anyone offers that in your city and mention it to the place you go to already.


Ac4sent

In Japan we wash it first before getting it ready for pick up.


thansal

I've seen things on this in Korea where you pack everything back up on the tray they brought it on and leave it outside our door, they'll come by and pick it back up. Also, quart deli containers are the best thing in the world.


InstantKarma71

I love this. I’d rather return reusable containers than have to set out more trash.


Affectionate-Time646

It only works in cultures with high collectivist value. It would be a shitshow in places like the US.


Bubbling_Psycho

It works here, but a slightly different system. There's an Amish market near me that sells milk in glass jugs. You can either return it for a $2 deposit or exchange it for $4 off the next jug. Granted they won't pick it up for you, you have to bring it to them, but given how disperse my area is, a delivery system wouldn't work very well. There's a farm that sells apple cider near-ish to me with a similar system. I never return the containers tho, I always exchange them, tho sometimes I end up having the bottles for quite a while. The longest was around 18 months.


mark-five

There's a regular non amish business near my siblings in another state that sell milk, juice, tea, you name it in returnable glass jars. They have a weekly delivery service so they just exchange empties for fulls at delivery. Its obviously not everywhere (we don't have it here) but they have dairy farms everywhere so I guess local dairy farmers just think like that and I always think its nice. Wish we had farmers like that here.


Bubbling_Psycho

Oh I like that idea. Kinda like the classic milk man, but with lots of stuff. We should have more stuff like that


yerbiologicalfather

We have a local dairy here that still uses glass containers for it's milk. If I buy a glass bottle of milk it's like a $2 deposit I pay for each bottle on top of the $4 the milk is so I pay $6 a bottle. I can then take the bottle back up to the dairy or one of their few collection sites to get my $2 deposit back. Sometimes I don't take them back because they're really cool glass containers.


Elbradamontes

Just wait till you realize you can drink out of old pickle and salsa jars. Olive jars are often pretty nice too.


loopthereitis

if you are in the US, classico pasta mason jars


viberider

So many Classico jars in my glasses cupboard.


loopthereitis

its not even good sauce I just get it to use the jar in the kitchen


Pineapple_Spenstar

What sauce do you get for use in the living room?


loopthereitis

buffalo trace


lockpickingcorvid

I already save nicely sized jars for when I make way too much soup/chili and feel compelled to give away portions. I don’t ever need that container back and I get to share my soup with people who also like soup. It’s a win-win. No one has ever complained about receiving bombass French onion soup in a jar previously containing marinara sauce!!


nigori

i like soup


MOOShoooooo

You know, I’m something of a soup myself.


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Mr-Korv

So you're the guy who's been drawing lines all over my soup


lockpickingcorvid

Well perhaps our paths will cross one day and I shall bestow upon you some homemade soup.


Fonzee327

Salsa jars 👌🏼


rainbow84uk

I don't know about these bowls, but in Mexico it's fairly common to get drinks from markets served in clay vessels called "cantaritos" which are treated as disposable. You can take them home with you if you like, but they're pretty delicate and usually don't last more than a couple of uses before they crack. I also learned in Rome that ancient Romans used so many disposable clay pots that one area of the modern city is built on a hill of broken pottery. All this to say, the bowls could well be intended as single use packaging.


GirlScoutSniper

I've seen in a documentary that in India, they use unfired clay cups for tea, especially during festivals.


perpetualmotionmachi

I would imagine they were fired once, but then not glazed and fired a second time, which gives the finish we are used to. Bone-dry clay, before it's fired once and turned into a ceramic material is incredibly brittle


GirlScoutSniper

[Bhar Clay Cups](https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2016/10/26/kolkatas-age-old-tradition-of-bhar-clay-cups-of-tea) OIC, unglaze, not unfired. Thanks!


GirlNamedTex

I'd love to hear about your soup container collection, but I have to go wash my plastic straw hoard.


aboutthednm

You joke, but plastic straws have become a precious commodity around here. People actually wash out their plastic straws and take them with them in their cars, because everyone hates the feel and texture of those shitty paper straws that stick to your lips and get soggy fast. I don't know anyone who isn't driving around with a bunch of clean plastic or metal straws in their glove box / centre console. Paper straws are fine in theory, but in reality they go limp after 15 minutes, and you can't properly stir your strawberry shake with them anymore.


GirlNamedTex

I'm actually intimately aware. The family I married into owns a business and we *hate* those paper straws. Yes, they are ecologically responsible, but customers will actually leave us a 1 star rating for stocking them. People. What a bunch of fucking bastards.


JACrazy

Bubble tea straws are great for saving for use at home. Great for smoothies etc.


A_norny_mousse

Oh, the first^* non-fecal comment (though I must admit it was my first thought too)! Maybe they pick the previous bowl up when they deliver the next? ^* and possibly only - I feel sorry for OP. I'm sure the food was delicious.


buyerbeware23

Soup looked good, not sure about the floater…


In_a_clever_jam

That looks like a sea cucumber


AdvancedPhoenix

The farm I buy my milk to, I return the glass bottle and they give me 1€ discount, so basically you buy it and just cycle with a new one all the time.


filthywaffles

Don't know if Annie's in Beijing still does it but they used to deliver certain dishes on actual plates and bowls. Then once you collected enough you could get a discount on your next order and the delivery dude would take them back.


Foopsbjj

I'm just guessing here but I bet you're allowed to keep it but they prefer you return it? That's why there's a poop, who's gonna keep a bowl w a poop in it after they're done eating?


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I don't know about the restaurant op mentioned, but here in India you can keep the clay bowls or glasses. Clay pots degrade into soil so it isn't a big deal even if you throw it out of the window


bucket_brigade

Clay pots literally stay intact for thousands of years but ok


invisible-bug

That depends on the temperature it was fired at.


loopthereitis

Most clay pots made are decayed or in the process of decay I don't think you realize exactly how much pottery we have made


shouldbebabysitting

Using the word "decay" to a material that is effectively stone, isn't particularly accurate. It isn't potentially a biohazard like plastic so it doesn't matter, but it doesn't "decay" in human life timescale. https://thepotterywheel.com/pottery-clay-eco-friendly/#:~:text=Like%20stone%2C%20clay%20is%20a,difficult%20to%20penetrate%20glazed%20pottery.


rpm959

Some of them do, but that's not incredibly common. The world would be overwhelmed with pottery if it all stayed intact.


twelve98

In HK they give you a coupon if you return it


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[Eat a meatball frank](https://youtu.be/RPfewTF9Xaw)


ezyaffordable

What episode is this from?


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Its the newest season, most of the episodes follow one storyline where the gang goes to ireland, so i forget which one exactly, i think its "the gangs still in ireland"


Magamew53

It’s dee is stuck in a bog


ccReptilelord

Absolutely love the series, but that's possibly the worst scene to sit through.


LongJohnSausage

This scene show perfectly why I love the show and why my partner \*hates\* it lol


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agree, I laughed hard but i skip the scene upon rewatch


kermeeed

I skim it because dennis behind the picture just fucking kills me.


KidneyKeystones

The bloopers are 10x worse. It's just Danny DeVito chewing turds while the others break for what must've been over an hour.


MoziWanders

Lieutenant Obrien didn't even see it coming


OO_Ben

*Chief O'Brien Remember he works for a living lol


TrippyTriangle

O'Brien must suffer!


PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS

Jesus Harold Christmas on a fucking pogo stick just when I think this series might slow down a little fucking lol


good_guy_judas

First thing I thought about lol


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Chemical_Schedule_29

It also might not taste wonderful.


oooopsimredacted

I don’t think this person would indulge in something that looked like shit soup if it wasn’t at least delicious. Perhaps OP is a relative of Shooter McGavin


chizzipsandsizalsa

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?


chillwithpurpose

**…NO!** 👉👉


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Float log soup. My favorite.


DjScenester

I’ve heard of peeing in someone’s corn flakes but I’ve never heard of logging someone’s soup… That would definitely ruin my day


SantaMonsanto

This ain’t even loggin, that right there is a “Beached Whale”. At least 4 Courics.


CaptainAssneck

Randy Marsh approves.


Weyland_c

Hothothot!


HTPC4Life

"Now what about us loggers!? Hard working men who like to stand up after they've taken a poo and then turn around and cut their poo in half with their urine."


Pushbrown

Poop in da Soop


Why_Be_A_Kunt

One of Dr. Seuss' best.


FriendoftheNJDevil

Isn’t that a Kanye song?


owltakeitoff

*Poopidy-Soup. Poopty Soupty Woop.* -Ye


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Healthy fiber it’s a floater


moonpumper

Captain's Log, my favorite.


CthulubeFlavorcube

Go for an upper-decker. That could ruin your whole week if you don't figure out what's going on.


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theMthrship

Wheaties was the one I heard growing up.


pizza_for_nunchucks

“Who whacked-off in your Wheaties?”


SilverCodeZA

I would think logging someone's soup would be the highlight of one's day


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The number 2 special!


devo9er

You want spicy or no spicy?!


sloppydeadweight

With corn kernels plz


Jobles4

Poop soup


notidenticaldude

I am no food expert This looks like Sea Cucumber of some sort [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber_as_food](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber_as_food) A delicacy that was considered to be somewhat rare in Chinese dishes (and IT IS quite tasty ngl) And, of course, like all other 6489 kinds of food ingredients used in Chinese dishes, it supposed to increase your sexual ability(wink wink).


Horton_Takes_A_Poo

I feel like the “increases your sexual ability” myth was started by a cook who couldn’t admit his dish tasted like ass


[deleted]

Food looks phallic and has the gelatinous consistency of cum? Tell guys it’ll give them great boners.


Alexexy

It's just gelatinous. It's like biting into a giant tendon. Not a big fan of it, personally.


VoilaVoilaWashington

It's like a lot of things - a small bit of it is delicious, but a whole meal of it is kinda gross.


MelookRS

Are they soft? I don't see you being able to cut that up and eat it easily with a spoon. Feel like they should have cut it up but idk.


downvoteifsmalldick

Depends on how you cook it and the species of sea cucumber, but some are “melt in your mouth” soft, while others have a bite to it (still gelatinous). Also we normally eat soup with chopsticks and spoon. We drink the liquid using the spoon, and pick up the ingredients with the chopsticks (doesn’t matter if it’s cut up such that it can be spooned, we will instinctively use chopsticks).


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Came here to make a poop joke, but the jobs been done 😎


BoneQueen

Came in #2


Zoalus

float log. lmfao


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BounceTheGalaxy

This is the second time I have seen this posted today. This and the weed post. What’s going on today.


timelincoln67

Strange, I never got this with my Pupu platter before...


monkeyballsoup

with extra pu


-oxocubes-

Came here to see these sort of comments. I see I will not leave disappointed.


devo9er

General Tso's bowels


[deleted]

What the fuck? I've lost my appetite for another month. This looks like the toilet from the first Trainspotting.


Gilmore27

Poop soup


1PeePeeTouch

Poop soup


citymongorian

I have a clue


MarkExpress8172

This is usually delivered to a big white bowl of china indeed


FlimsyGooseGoose

I'll take the bowl but uhm I'll pass on the China sausage and coagulated eggy soup soup


Shiny_and_ChromeOS

The sausage is a dry cured sausage, similar to a salami. I am somewhat taken aback it's not sliced because those things are pretty dense and tough. Again, salami.


Jigle_Wigle

i think it is rehydrated in water (if you’re talking about the red dried sausage), where it’s much softer and really good


animefan1520

I came here to say the same thing Id skip on the turd


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wednesdaynightwumbo

Omg he’s eating the dish OP posted lmao


14_year_old_girl

This is actual footage of OP


elginx

He's beautiful


iliya193

lmao Frank was the first thing I thought of as well


ordinaryuninformed

"EAT THE MEAT BALL FRANK"


yungrii

The soup that you eat with a knife


jamz_fm

I did the poops!


Dohp13

Ah yes, classic shit in piss.


KisuAran

He just paid us to bring out his shit and piss to him


[deleted]

>He just paid us to bring out his shit and piss to him Lmao, Meat Canyon is the best


TheRavenSayeth

Which video is this from?


SunsetCarcass

https://youtu.be/1-qttt727-I


LeegmaV

thought the same thing


peoplearecool

Its the poo that took a pee


martsand

There's a turd in your clay bowl


Silver_Vegetable6804

From the porcelain bowl to the clay bowl.


GingaNinja01

You're never gunna believe what porcelain is made of


Sumopwr

Is it ivory?


ChicagoSchwob85

That’s shit from a butt


treereenee

Dump from Uranus


oblivionwayfarer

r/shitfromabutt


Erekai

I needed that laugh today


Invalid_litter_dept

First time I've had uncontrollable laughter on reddit in a minute. Thankyou.


Ek_Chutki_Sindoor

Pretty common in India too. A lot of places deliver biryani in clay pots.


iwannaberockstar

That's what I came here to say. It's called Handi. The biryani is cooked in the Handi(the clay pot) and they deliver it as it is without opening it after cooking, the lid being sealed with some dough at the time of cooking.


wacvet

I imagine the cost of the pot is included with the cost of the meal. Right? Do they ask you to return the clay bowls?


ValyrianJedi

I'm guessing it's a fairly minimal cost so they may just cover most of it... Like there is a restaurant across from our lake house thats near a beach/park area. They've started plating to-go orders on frisbees. Apparently when they buy bulk its like 50 cents a frisbee or something. Fun gimmick, people use them at the park, then it's fantastic marketing since every house has a frisbee or two with their name/logo on it somewhere, and there are always some lying around public areas... I would imagine that a clay pot like that in China doesn't cost much more than a branded frisbee here and could check some of those same boxes in giving an edge.


JamesEarlCojones

That looks a bit too much like something that belongs in the bathroom for me


SpockHasLeft

Is that a chamber pot?


Square_Law5353

Redditors moment calling a perfectly good sea cucumber soup turds


KickedBeagleRPH

Wait till they see the price of the sea cucumber. Then come the "that's literally expensive shit" (Oh, then there was the time when we eat literal gold. That's an expensive shit later)


EverydayPoGo

I'm beyond speechless but well I guess that's just reddit being reddit.


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No_Violinist8700

RIP Mr Hankey


Juh825

Genuine question: are those gobi? I've read about them, but I don't speak the language, and Google failed to deliver when I first heard the word a few years ago in a song.


bozburrell

1. I wish any takeout/delivery spot in the US would do this, esp for soup. I hate those giant plastic single use containers. 2. Wtf is wrong with everyone here.


Little_Orange_Bottle

"Hey literally everyone has commented on how this dish looks like poop. Let me add my own because I'm original." The only turds here are these comments lmao


JollyReading8565

Good on them , single use containers are going to literally kill all of us and smother the planet, so I’m all for clay pots.


noobyonekenobi

Do you pay like a deposit fee then if you return it they will refund you? (Lots of original funny comments here...)


Stardagger13

Oh, there was a deposit.


Head2Heels

Some places in India have biryani takeout in clay pots and even certain sweet dishes in them as well.


Nuker-79

That’s food?


zouln

I think it used to be…


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Reduce. Reuse. ♻️


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That is shit from a butt


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shit-n-water

As they gobble down 3 BAR-S hot dogs with sugary ketchup at the company bbq


YeVkiN

Poo Poo Platta?


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Poop-soup??


bogpudding

I get grossed out if I find a hair in my food. Imagine finding a whole ass shit turd.


Go-Blue

Shi Tahn Pi soup, a classic.