Problem with lids on RTD

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I have a preternaturally short tongue which prohibits such acrobatics - or any side gigs on Only Fans :thinking:

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Don’t be so sure. I bet there are people into that.

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True. We live in a world where a treasonous orange fascist can sell campy AI NFT’s and Bibles – so I guess people will pay for anything……

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Maybe I am a little ignorant but what a nonesenss rule that is about keeping the lid stuck to the bottle. Damn; got to love these dudes high up in charge of the EU. Radically improving the world with sticking the lid to the bottle. What would we do without them.

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It’s a band aid really – that ignores the larger issues with the recycling chain in Europe. I guess they basically took the view that people were not recycling PET bottles enough or correctly (which is true) but ignored the many reasons this may be and so took the path of least resistance to try and fix that (putting the onus entirely on brands and manufacturers). Personally, I think it will show negligible improvements compared to what wider investment in recycling modernisation and consumer accessibility would have.

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Reminds me of the old days when ring-pulls were separate from drinks cans. Ensuring that they stayed attached was a positive move in reducing environmental litter pollution. Maybe it’ll turn out the be the same with bottle caps, though I agree that reducing plastics overall should be the aim. Also ring-pulls couldn’t be reattached to the can before discarding. Maybe if we’d all been dutifully reattaching our RTD lids we wouldn’t be getting new restrictions.

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It seems that the Huel Black Chocolate package has been changed again, at least in Germany.

This new version is very flimsy (it probably uses less plastic, so this could be positive in some way, but still feels cheap), even worse, the mouth part is sharp and cuts my mouth a bit when drinking.

Also, the lid can now be ripped off more easily (I rip it off as well, as I also hate it when it drips on me, even after licking) and includes a piece of foil.

Another thing that worries me is that it is more watery now. Black chocolate used to be quite thick, and I like that. This new version (?) seems to be worse than it used to be.

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Sorry to hear you feel this way, It most certainly shouldn’t be the case.

Can you please drop us an email to team@huel.com so we can look into this for you?

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That one time when Brexit could have had a positive outcome. AFAIK this is a European thing, there’s no need to attach lids in the UK. I find quite easy to pull it off, though, just remember to screw it back in before recycling it.

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No need to attach lids in the UK?
Oh yes, if only those anarchic irresponsible Germans and Dutch would live as carefully and responsibly as us Brits, eh?
We’re paragons of environmental virtue, us.

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No – it’s a UK thing as well. The UK signed up to this too and, although the plan post Brexit was to abandon much of the existing EU regulations regarding food and drink, this plan was reversed as it was deemed too risky and the wording was changed from abandoned to assimilated – so any EU law or regulation for food and drink that was created or drafted prior to Brexit remains true for the UK now.

(FYI – the legislation in question was agreed on by member countries in 2019)

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That might be true but I can’t find any information about this being mandatory in the UK. I think it’s still legal to sell un-tethered lids here. Anyway, I hope this makes a difference, because I doubt anyone will ever check if it did.

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You can view EU legislation that still applies in the UK on the government’s website, where they also provide any amendments to these laws specific to the UK. The requirement for the tethered caps can be found in Article 6.1, so still sits as legislation in the UK.

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You do look a bit orange.

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I came here to complain about the lids. Now I’m here to complain that a brand ambassador is being weirdly combative toward customers. It’s helpful to know that the design is constrained by regulations and so it’s unlikely to change any time soon. But we don’t need you to insult us by implying we can’t think of workarounds. The issue is that the workarounds are annoying.

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Workarounds are annoying? I don’t know, isn’t there a satisfaction from having a workaround for a problem? I like workarounds, when the problem itself is unavoidable.

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Is the old brand ambassador still a thing. I thought Huel fucked it off because everyone thought it was a bit wank. Perhaps I missed the memo and it’s still going strong.

I assumed the new, nearly as wank team affiliate thing was the latest gimmick for fanboys

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Just had some Huel drop down my clothes at work! Who signed this off :man_facepalming:

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whoever your MEP used to be :slight_smile:

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Problem is it works with liquid but not RTD or anything milkshake related. Luckily you can force them off which I will be doing. Nobody need to have Huel stains on their work shirts :rofl: