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A lot of restaurants have moved to this style of packaging. Even if it does improve heat retention/reduce sogginess[0], it's frustrating.

[0] They claim it does, but I'm not sure I notice any difference.

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I'm friends with a small batch gelato maker. He mainly sells individual scoops, but he also sells pints. He started out using fully compostable pint containers, but their permeability leads to ice crystal formation while the product is stored. He's switched to more traditional pint containers, and the improvement is noticable.

Styrofoam is best, it's also horrible for the environment.

Styrofoam melts with hot foods and ruins the taste. It's one of the things I hate about take-out and why I rarely order take-out for any hot foods, because they always taste like plastic.

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