Oh my God! I'm sorry, you experienced this kind of worst nightmare. A cookie tin container is supposed to be a sewing kit. If it was a prank that was really not funny! You poor soul. 😔
I had a filipino house keeper. After about 2 years of having her, one day I was going through a cabinet that I never use and found every container I had ever used, cleaned and stacked in this cabinet.
we do some improvised..or sometimes if we have extra viand..we used icecream tub to send adobo to our neighbors..we can reused something that we can be reused..
As a Filipino American, this is actually good for the environment to recycle, and most Asians, not just Filipinos, do this. I think we can safely say that most people from humble backgrounds do this, regardless of race.
When you are an Asian and raised in your own country and witnessed how your elders save plastic bags and containers until you grown up, you may develop a conscience or feel guilt to just throw the plastic bags or containers away without reusing it😅 #LoveFrom🇵🇭
Asian and African parents aren’t so different after all. I grew up with “hey there’s a whole tub of ice cream in the freezer” only to find out it’s some pungenty leftovers from last night! Because of this past trauma, I spoil my son with fancy lunchboxes
Honestly speaking, when you adopt this kind of idea will save you money and not just that, you help saving the Mother Nature by reducing the single use of plastics.
me too..it saves a little penny and a little time not going to grocery...i am not shy having this kind of reused containers or tub to bring may lunch in my office..it is penny saving and it is good
I remember the day I found out that those tins really did come with cookies. Lol. When I was little I thought that the images of cookies were just decorative.
Holy smokes, EVERYBODY does this here. This is very accurate, to the container. The sewing kit, oil jar, pencil case, teriyaki lunch, all of it, it’s all true! It’s like he just showed me a magic trick!
Yellow Golden Spread containers were the ones we always used.... ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Memories of always hunting in the refrigerator and freezer...in a sea of yellow containers, lol.
Jo.... I have to tell you... my youngest son, JM, is a Filipino living in Passi, Iloilo. He is 10 years old and serious about being a chef. He ❤️ cooking. Anyhow... he uses what almost looks like real Tupperware. He mostly uses that stuff to keep the ants out. And it is the rural Philippines... so electricity is not reliable enough to use a refrigerator. JM loves to go grocery shopping. Most of the food they buy in Passi City, does not come in reusable containers. Long story short, I unofficially adopted my two sons, at their request, back in January 2018. At that time, JM was 7 years old and his brother Kyle was 11 years old. I have been their Daddy ever since. You might appreciate this ( rice is rice ).... when JM bought his first rice cooker, he hugged it all the way home on the trike. Lol.
Korean families do this as well haha isn’t it just economically and environmentally better to do this? Seriously, why would you throw away a perfectly good container?
Especially a nice glass jar! All you have to do is soak the jar in hot soapy water to remove the paper label & wipe off with rubbing alcohol to remove residue!
You got it. That high quality plastic can last a long time. Just don’t heat it up too much, so no Bisphenol leeches out to the food. No microwaving either! Otherwise, go for it. I save every glass jar, so I can make pickles, hard boiled quail eggs in slat brine, etc. last forever. And I DO search for the sauces and things with good quality containers too! ;)
@@desireeortiz9532 not really, its about saving what you can save even when it gets tacky. Its just plastic containers and jars are the most notorious ones.
my grandpa and grandma have those stuff that i thought theirs cookies inside, 8 yr old me was prank not just ones but hundred times bc all my relatives do have that thing
I just got mine in the mail today and it is already impressing everybody. It was a steal and my wife is putting all the containers to use even the one that stores the pencils!!! Thank you, you guys were lifesavers and it was convenient and a cheap price, definitely worth the wait.
The best part is he's not wrong. He's actually quite accurate 🤣🤣 The only I'd change is it's not exclusively Filipino, I'm sure most Asian families do this.
OMJ, at least your darling also entertains you🤪 pointless to buy those fancy storage containers and Tupperware because we end up losing them, what a waste! Might as well recycle them containers.
I remember my niece used to eat everything in the fridge but she used to know that ice cream containers always has fish on it. One time, my sister bought an ice cream and it lasted for a week. Mom didn't tell her that they have ice cream😁
My mom actually picks the food brand with a better container. "Oh, we should buy this. This container is perfect!" Even before buying she already has an idea of how and where she'll be reusing it 😂
Many years ago I worked on Kodak Is., Alaska and I was “adopted “ by a Filipino family and the Tala (mom) would bring me lunch at where we worked everyday in butter container. I laughed out loud watching this1
My dad and I were watching Jo Koy’s stand up when he talks about losing his keys and how his mom always knows where her keys are because she keeps it on a wooden key holder that says “KEYS”.... i look over in the kitchen and low and behold.. it’s a wooden key holder that says “KEYS”. 😂🤣
The cookie tin! Whenever I saw that at an auntie's house, I didn't even bother looking inside. I only ever saw the actual cookies at my white friends' houses
When the world got polluted because of plastic bags, don't ever blame the asians. All of our plastic bags were under the sink edit: Woaaw this blew up pretty big, definitely agreed on y'all! recycling was never limited to any region of the earth, Glad that we have socially responsible upbringing wherever we are! I hope the penguins are doing it too XD :)
I won't say it is a Filipino things, in fact, it is almost an Asian thing. As long as you are an Asian, you'll recycle all kind used plastic containers. That's Asian Tupperware.
It’s basically everyone except white people.. Latinos, Africans, Asians they all do this.. blue tins of cookies are always sewing kits we know how it is 😔
Same here! I’d have to go through 3 tubs to find the actual butter 😅 irony though, I have 2 half sisters who Filipino so I see it in their family too! For the longest time I thought everyone did that lolol
We're Black and we have always done this so I showed it to my mom and she said, "well, it IS a shame to just throw them away...." The blue can sewing kit nailed it
Ikr. Especially the nice looking packaging stuff. I use literally all of the glass bottles from juices/tea as portable paint water container and as vases.
when you visit a relatives feast and there's a lot of leftover and you wanna bring home some of it..those containers are useful as they don't need to send it back..bring it for keeps..🤣
Reusing any plastic containers and jars is a learned behavior from my Grandma💓 along with washing and air drying Ziploc bags and she would reuse aluminum foil if it wasn't in bad shape. The thrifty things you learn from someone who lived through the Great Depression.
When we were moving after living in our old house about 15 years, my husband was amazed when he saw me packing several LARGE boxes with literally a couple hundred assorted 'recycled' plastic containers and wonderful glass jars ...... I admit it, I have a thing about reusing unique glass bottles and jars ...... Guess I'm just weird.
This is strange because my grandma is italian and she saves all the old containers so did my american grandma seems like the older generations just know how to reuse things. My italian grandma also used the same butter cookie container as a sewing kit too
mother from Italy, father Philipino .. i was almost lost to an avalanche of these miss matched containers every time you opened the "Tupperware" cabinet
Lived with my grandma for years and she is the absolute spitting image of this, also passing it onto me. Moved in with my momma and started keeping all types of ‘Filipino’ Tupperware thinking she’d appreciate em like grandma did..she caught me one day and yelled at me saying, “boy, you’re the one whose been storing all this trash in my dishwasher?”...😓
@@IM-eq9gx Dishwashers are just drying racks in my house. I don't think I've ever seen it turned on to actually wash dishes. Only to drain the water that ends up collecting at the bottom.
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HILARIOUS!!! I cleaned my 80 year old Mother's shed yesterday and today in the 90° heat. What a job! I found 27 gallon jugs, 1 dozen (+) Gatorade bottles, 16 ice cream buckets, 7 laundry detergent buckets, 4 dishwashing detergent buckets and 176 canning jars. The sour cream, butter and Cool Whip bowls are stored in the kitchen cabinets and used on a regular basis for leftovers. My collection isn't quite as significant but I have plenty enough to last a while. Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my Mother after all. Hmmmm... Perhaps I should sell them online as a little sidekick during these days of uncertainty due to the Pandemic.. Any offers??? ... 😂🤣😂
our elders are very frugal or should i say anything that can be reused saves our little penny..little time to go to grocery..but really most filipinoes do not rely on can goods for lunch..only sardines is a best part of it during rainy days "did u feel the delisciousness of bahaw (cold rice) and a sardines best comfy food
This is my grandma right here, saves every container, because when she sends you home with left overs she doesn’t want to send you home with her good tuber wear. 😆
ice cream container is also used for the picnic, even if it disappears, it doesn't hurt anymore, but it's fun when you come home, mom's first question is did you take home the Tupperware referring to the ice cream containers haha
Boston Irish here, our food sucks, boiled potatoes.Not a lot of need for storage of exotic things like "sauce"... I used to try to eat at the Italian kids' house, because they had good food.
I'm Filipino and, yes, we do re-use ziplock bags (we wash it like we wash dishes). And even in Filipino family parties, we don't just throw away disposable spoons and forks and plastic cups. We wash it because it's considered wasteful to throw them away while in perfect condition. 😆
Hahahaha that is sooo true, my Greek mother re uses zip lock bags and she uses them for EVERYTHING! Food, scarfs, old cell phones, toiletries, books... I feel like all immigrants do things like re using jars, the cookie tin etc. Hey, if it works, no need to change it hahaha 😂
The best shit I’ve seen in a long while... FACTS, RELATABLE AND HYSTERICAL. All a kid wanted was a dang cookie, instead you find a boat load of thread and good luck locating that needle. All I wanted was a cookie.
The most devastating thing that could happen with this is finding your favorite ice cream in the freezer and opening it just to find out there's "Tilapia" inside!
I cannot stop laughing cause some black comic didnt think of this bit! Man everybody's mama and grandmama keep these "perfectly good" containers. Brilliant! Genius! So you can use the glass container for grease storage. Omg! This set is priceless!
My mom does this and we’re Mexican. Need to take some pozole home after a birthday party, wedding or quinceanera but have no Tupperware ??? Just grab a Neapolitan tub and you’re set with breakfast and dinner for the next day.
Culture wise, Mexican and Filipinos has a lot in common. Not a surprise because we trade a lot during the Spanish era for almost 400 years under Spanish colony (trade of Acapulco) and guess what Spanish tongue has been totally eradicated during US Colony. That's us here in the Philippines and we are brothers.
I am LOOOOOOSING IT!!!! THIS IS MY LIFE!!!!!! LMAO!!!! Like every one of these is exactly EXACTLY like my stuff!!!! Why would I never NOT recycle???? Hehehe 😅😂😉
Asian here. Seen all those containers in my parents fridge when i was a child, with different leftovers in it lol. Im going to pass the tradition and do it to my kids 😂
I remember opening my Lola’s fridge. I’m looking for butter to put on pandesal, but the container I opened had old adobo. Second one had old sinigeng, finally the third container had butter.
"The blue tin sewing kit" LOL - was there a convention and agreement in the Philippines to only reuse it as a sewing stuff container? But every time I walk into a Filipino home and I see the blue tin can, it only means 2 things - cookies or needles.
I didnt know that was a Filipino thing also. My mom has hers in one of those too. I guess all asians do the same thing. Makes me wonder how we became the same across all types of Asians.
when my brother brought this round tin from abroad.or some store the moment i open it and saw cookies i can feel my eyes pop like what?!is this a dream?..i could only wish theres cookies everytimr i open it..