Philip Morris Companies, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro, owned Lunchables for 23 years and used cigarette research strategies to shape the brand.

  • Internal documents show Philip Morris shared scientists, technology, and product development methods across its tobacco, food, and alcohol divisions, with Lunchables serving as a model example of that strategy.
  • Lunchables was engineered to appeal to kids’ desire for autonomy and to ease mothers’ guilt, using the same consumer psychology approach Philip Morris developed for cigarettes.
  • Researchers say tobacco-style regulations, including warning labels, taxes, and restrictions on child-focused marketing, may be worth applying to ultraprocessed foods like Lunchables.
  • @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    12 months ago

    Yup. If you’re extra paraoid, get some air-txght buckets, fill them with beans and don’t tell anyone you have them until you have a gun.

    • @cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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      12 months ago

      Do you mean like Home Depot buckets? I’ve wanted to fill one or similar bucket with flour but worry about pantry moths

      • @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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        22 months ago

        I haven’t done this yet since it’s still an open question if I want to survive the apocalypse (just have a few extra bags of dried beans), but you probably want special food grade plastic with rubber gaskets, neither of which I think Home Depot offers.

        • @cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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          12 months ago

          You right, Home Depot does sell buckets like that(and only like $7) but they ain’t the orange ones