You can taste this picture.

Unfortunately our cohort has had an increase in colorectal cancer rates; I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s at some point found to be because of all the plastics

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Allaplgy@reddit

For me it's the micro plastics, the copious amount of automotive chemicals, drugs and alcohol, an entire Texas of red meat, and those weird sodas from Hot Topic.

My cancer is in a fight for its life against the other cancers.

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drwebb@reddit

I too am relying on the "Three Stooges" syndrome to make it to old age.

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murph0969@reddit

I use this model way too often. Mostly too purple who have never watched The Simpsons. They obviously don't get it.

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grif650@reddit

And you wonder why our generation has colon cancer at an alarming rate

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lulzbot@reddit

The real treasure is the PFAs we ingested along the way

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Quixotegut@reddit

They were the friends we made before "along the way".

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PapaTua@reddit

I can literally taste the microplastics.

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

especially when it was sitting out in the sun for a while

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legojoe97@reddit

This was at the tip of the Food Pyramid, we just didn't zoom & enhance.

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drMcDeezy@reddit

The taste of the water after 10 minutes in the sun. Hooooo boy

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edwigenightcups@reddit

Came here to say exactly this. It's up there with hot hose water

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-HHANZO-@reddit

Read someone say our microplastics are the Boomer's lead

Always think about that

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IllEase4896@reddit

It tasted funnier the warmer the day got. Mmmm microplastics

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leshpar@reddit

God I can smell that water bottle and I'm almost gagging on the water inside just imagining this. So glad those bottles are gone.

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Mdriver127@reddit

You melted holes yours in the dishwasher too I see..

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

Even when not melted, mine always leaked from where the straw went into the lid.

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dkonigs@reddit

We had water bottles back in the day? I certainly don't remember that.

All I remember was the occasional water canteen you'd bring to summer camp, and that's it.

Meanwhile, today, it seems like its mandatory that kids always have water bottles with them everywhere.

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Guess I'm a minority, I started scouts in the mid 90's and we used Nalgene bottles all the time. That habit bled over into normal life and I had a Nalgene bottle strapped to my backpack for years until I finished school.

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Britlantine@reddit

One fountain per playground in my school, and you had to the count of five before being declared waterhog and had to move on.

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jsteele2793@reddit

The only time I ever actually remember using a water bottle was training camp for swimming. We did a lot of outdoor running and stuff outside where there wasn’t a water fountain. Otherwise I don’t ever remember using one!

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Nice_Alarm_2633@reddit

Yeah I remember drinking a lot of juice boxes but rarely water??? How did I survive?

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Comfort_Schmumfort@reddit

Juice has electrolytes! It's what kids crave!

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ThunderBayOPP@reddit

I wonder that myself! As an adult, I have made it a point to drink water - and more of it after having a kidney stone 😖 (DO NOT RECOMMEND)

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10PlyTP@reddit (OP)

For some reason I never remember the liquid inside ever being cold. Always luke warm.

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New_Amomongo@reddit

In the 90s I had a Colemann 2L water bottle that looked similar to this

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Due_Adeptness_1964@reddit

You too? Ours was a maroon color, but I think it held a gallon, and definitely the best solution to keeping the water cold until the end of the game/activity…Damn, nothing was more refreshing than taking a big gulp of ice cold water in 90f heat.

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New_Amomongo@reddit

I think mine got stolen one time or I mistakenly took another person. I found it weird that the foldable spout tasted/felt different then realized it wasn't mine.

I returned it the following day at school

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Due_Adeptness_1964@reddit

Yeah, nobody ever had the one I had so there was no mistaking it for another. And it just goes to show you the quality of things from decades ago, because it didn’t leak and always kept water ice cold for hours, and we used to use that thing all the time during the summer.

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scarred_but_whole@reddit

Mmmmm, warm plastic. Almost as tasty as cold garden hose.

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nvmls@reddit

At least garden hose was cold

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Allaplgy@reddit

Or scalding if long and left in the sun.

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TheVenetianMask@reddit

And spicy because of all the wasps.

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Satur_Nine@reddit

If only modern day Yetis had ninja turtles on them too

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Tasting like hot piss

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Anxious-Insect5862@reddit

My exact first thought

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BugEquivalents@reddit

Even if you put ice in there it never last long

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BadRabiesJudger@reddit

It is as if it was warm and melted the ice.

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hitliquor999@reddit

And they all leaked

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belmontpdx78@reddit

Mmm Luke warm petrochemicals 🤤

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tasi671@reddit

Oh I remember the rich plastic flavor

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shaggy68@reddit

I had that Turtles one. Takes me back. We used to fill them with soda though.

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Impossible-Ad9423@reddit

100% of your daily recommended value of microplastics

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Professional_Mood823@reddit

I had the left one and the right one. Don't remember the middle one. Also the straw is a musical instrument.

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CalmBeneathCastles@reddit

I don't ever remember owning one of these, but I sure can!

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SlatheredButtCheeks@reddit

Back then we called them Sports Bottles. Badass

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durenatu@reddit

I also remember they recommended this to go with soda, and if you put some, the smell and the taste would never get off, also, some people used to try to wash it with hot water and the lid and straw would be ruined

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DingoPoutine@reddit

Remember how water always tasted a little funny? The flavor of microplastics, BPA, etc.

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CemeteryWind213@reddit

I believe the smell was plasticizer (eg BPA) after working with Nalgene labware.

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PurpleSasquatchNose@reddit

Mildew is the best

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Big_Slope@reddit

Yeah….water…

I put Coca Cola in that bitch and swigged warm flat soda from it all day. I know I’m not the only one.

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SplakyD@reddit

You're not alone, my friend

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frenchinhalerbought@reddit

That's how they came at Six Flags

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johnvalley86@reddit

Oh yeah you could 100% taste the chemicals leaching out of those things when you took a swig. We didn't care though. Ignorance was Bliss

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Grit-326@reddit

Wow, I forgot about my TMNT water bottle and how upset I had gotten once the graphic scrapped off.

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Louisville82@reddit

That’s why we were never thirsty. The PFA’s from 106 degree plastic bottle baking in an un-air conditioning car for 3 days. I swear I went weeks with out drinking anything I feel like, now I gotta have a bottle of water next to me or I feel like I’ll die.

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Tonsilith_Salsa@reddit

Thanks there's a plastic spoon in my brain now.

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Horror-Potential7773@reddit

Born 84. Had two older brothers as well. Man I loved that era.

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ezmoney98@reddit

I used to fill that up with orange soda and go play basketball. Thinking I was all healthy with my sports bottle on a hot summer day😂

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FreshSetOfBatteries@reddit

Tbh if you're playing basketball orange soda really isn't that bad for you. Sports drinks are just soda minus bubbles with salts.

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FreshSetOfBatteries@reddit

I would totally rock one of these but with updated non poisony plastics

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

You could make music with these straws if ya whipped em around haha

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ZeldaHylia@reddit

I had a neon pink one with flamingos on it 😂

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stataryus@reddit

Omg yes I can!!

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Ahshitbackagain@reddit

I had the left one. It was my favorite possession for a long time.

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

Shit same! Totally forgot about that. However I did pick up this bad boy today.

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Platt_Mallar@reddit

Me three!

That toy is totally rad.

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

Thanks! I remember when they came out and my brother, myself and cousins got them all as gifts. We had the whole set. Alas Mikey’s nunchucks didn’t last long and they all got lost along the way.

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hyogodan@reddit

I bought like, 6 Michelangelo’s because the nunchucks kept breaking in half.

Probably why I liked Donatello the most, that bo never broke.

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

Dude exactly what happened to mine. I remember my mom tried to “weld” the plastic back together with her cigarette lighter. 😂

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Platt_Mallar@reddit

I had several of the smaller toys, but my dog ate all of their heads and hands. Nothing else, just their squishy heads and their hands. She didn't chew on our other toys either.

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

😂

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S1ayer@reddit

My friend had that. I was like.... how do you play with this? He's 3x bigger than your other action figures.

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Cloud_Fortress@reddit

Hah! That’s where they get you. You have to buy all the other big figures to have any fun. I had the big versions of the X-men toys like this also but they didn’t make very many of them so it was definitely hard to play with them like the regular sized ones.

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FunnyGoose5616@reddit

My brother had the left one and I had the middle one. The water always tasted like liquid plastic. Good times…

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lilacsmakemesneeze@reddit

I had the nkotb and a pink mug too that I think I got for selling something at a school fundraiser.

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NootBeer@reddit

I had the 7up Fido Dido one.
It was like drinking water from the hose. So bad. But so good.

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redfalcondeath@reddit

Oh shit you just brought back memories…I had the Ninja Turtles one! Totally forgot about it

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eezmo@reddit

Remember when those things would sit out in the sun or car for a few hours? Coulda made a cup of tea in those things…

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ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit

Who knew making drink containers out of the same plastic as frisbees was a bad idea?

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protoman86@reddit

I had that ninja turtles water bottle growing up.

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Arriwyn@reddit

I can literally taste the plastic. My first water bottle came from the Arco AM/PM convince store in California. Ahhh mems.

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KingArthurKOTRT@reddit

Nostalgia triggered

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DirtRight9309@reddit

best tasting water next to garden hose

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Sad_Egg_5176@reddit

Yeah that plastic flavor really hit (not even kidding, I loved that shit). Actually explains a lot about me these days

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DirtyDoog@reddit

You ever rapidly tap the TV remote against your mouth while staring at the Preview Channel cycle upwards, just to see if Nickelodeon will show 1 episode of GUTS, or 2 episodes back to back?

The remote tasted funny.

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edwigenightcups@reddit

Oh my god I can taste remote by just thinking about it

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Anarch-ish@reddit

You could taste the lead

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jatayu333@reddit

No wonder we all have a small spoon sized amount of micro plastics in our brain! lol!

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That-Molasses9346@reddit

I thought I was so cool with my TMNT water bottle

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ImportantRoutine1@reddit

I can definitely taste this picture lol. I was going to type that before even reading the title 😂

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BackFromTheDeadSoon@reddit

You had to really NEED the water to put up with the flavor.

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Turd-In-Your-Pocket@reddit

I had that Simpsons one.

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jackfaire@reddit

Oh damn that's a flood of memory

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lifeat24fps@reddit

You can taste them because they’re still in our ovaries and testes.

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grimacefry@reddit

Those straws had their own (delicious) taste

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DaddyBobMN@reddit

Tases like Super Soakers, which we all knew tasted different than regular squirt guns

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Drummer_WI@reddit

The inventor of the super soaker is on Reddit. Saw it on a diff thread. It's wild. 🤯

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Drummer_WI@reddit

So that's where my Testosterone went! 🥴😒😑

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PraetorianXVIII@reddit

Holy shit yes I had that turtle bottle! I totally forgot until just now

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magicchefdmb@reddit

Lol we literally had the left two! We weren't even fans of New Kids on the Block

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1Adventurethis@reddit

Core memory unlocked!, I had the TMNT one.

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meggsovereasy@reddit

Wait. Y’all drank water? When?

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Both-Tree@reddit

So can I 😂

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The_broken_machine@reddit

NGL - I'd love to my TMNT bottle back. 😄

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RiskyGorilla563@reddit

This post has a taste

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Deadzombiesluts@reddit

I can taste the dish soap absorbed by those things

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Devilnutz2651@reddit

I still have my Alf lunchbox

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srdev_ct@reddit

Wow… I had all of these. And probably will have testicular cancer because of them. But thanks for the nostalgia hit.

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11229988B@reddit

Fucking mind blower!! I had the Ninja turtles one when I was little and wasn't allowed to use it. No clue what happened to it. Haven't thought of that in over 30 years

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LarsPinetree@reddit

People say you can’t taste an image

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axiomata@reddit

Use the hose

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gap_toof_mouf@reddit

We used a garden hose

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Rampasta@reddit

Mm delicious micro plastic donuts

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Live_Barracuda1113@reddit

My mom and I used to argue about the color of the one on the far right!

Also- does anyone else attribute to the rise of "water bottle" culture to these earlier predecessors?

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