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.



Do you mean like Home Depot buckets? I’ve wanted to fill one or similar bucket with flour but worry about pantry moths
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.
You right, Home Depot does sell buckets like that(and only like $7) but they ain’t the orange ones