A Pudding Cup Fit Perfectly Into a Car's Drink Holder. Now It Won't Come Out

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A driver in Japan set a cup of pudding down in their car's drink holder for a moment. It was a Jersey milk pudding from OHAYO, a dairy brand sold in convenience stores and supermarkets across the country. The cup slid in, sat flush with the rim, and stayed there. There was nothing left to grab.

The photo of the pudding lid sitting neatly in the dashboard drew plenty of advice. Some of it was practical, involving tape and the label sticker. Some of it suggested eating the pudding where it was. Some of it went bigger.

Japanese has a word for this kind of accident: "Cinderella fit," used when an object turns out to fit perfectly into a space it was never designed for, like Cinderella's foot and the glass slipper. It's usually a happy discovery. This time, less so.

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What do I do 😢 I put a pudding in the drink holder and now I can’t get it out

どーしよう😢 ドリンクホルダーにプリン入れたら取れなくなっちゃった

@TIRE_SCI · View on X

(。=｀ω´=) huh?

(。=｀ω´=)ぇ?

OHAYO products aren’t content with just fitting consumers’ tastes. They fit drink holders a little too well too. Their one flaw.

OHAYOの商品、消費者の舌では飽き足らずドリンクホルダーにもフィットし過ぎるのが玉に瑕。

If you leave it there it’ll say “ohayo” to you every day, and that’ll make you a little bit happier 😌 (Ohayo means “good morning.”)

そのままにしたら毎日オハヨーって言ってくれるからちょっと幸せになれる😌

Sorry, I’m blood type A, so could you do the same thing on the passenger side too? (In Japan, blood type A is stereotyped as neat and particular about things matching.)

すいません、A型なもので、助手席も同じようにしてもらっていいですか？

This happened to me once in my uncle’s car. I panicked like crazy and have kept my mouth shut about it until this very day ( - × - )

昔叔父さんの車でこれなって死ぬほど焦って今の今まで黙ってました( - × - )

Eat it first, think later. Get some sugar in you.

とりあえず食べてから考えよう。糖分摂取だ。

Just eat it right there

そのまま食いなよ

Like this

こうですね

@mogumogumosk · View on X

Peel up both ends of the label sticker just a little, then pinch them and pull it out

ラベルのシールの両端を少しだけ剥がして、そこを摘みながら取り出す

@doon__chan__ · View on X

First, calm down and eat the pudding. Then stack another pudding into the empty cup and eat that one too. Repeat a few times and it’ll come out!

とりあえず落ち着いてプリンを食べてくださいそしてその空にまたプリンを重ねて食べてください何回か繰り返すと取れるようになります！

Ehh… a pudding was placed in a car’s drink holder, and now it won’t come out…

Now this, you see, is a most peculiar case.

Ordinarily, one buys pudding in order to eat it. And yet the culprit went out of their way to put it in the car’s drink holder.

In other words, the culprit may have believed that pudding is a beverage. (Written in the drawling style of Ninzaburo Furuhata, a Columbo-like detective from a classic Japanese TV drama.)

え〜、プリンを車のドリンクホルダーに入れたら、取れなくなった……。これはですねぇ、実に奇妙な事件です。普通、プリンというものは食べるために買うんです。ところが犯人は、わざわざ車のドリンクホルダーにプリンを入れた。つまり犯人は、プリンを飲み物だと思っていた可能性があります。

I brainstormed some no-tools methods with Grok

道具を使わない方法をGrokと考えてみました

@iaponici · View on X

Couldn’t you just flip the car over?

車をひっくり返せばいいのでは？

Before you do, don’t forget to peel off the lid and put a plate over it.

その前にプリンのフタをめくってお皿を被せるのを忘れないでください。

Flipping the Earth over would be more reliable

地球を裏返す方が確実だよ

What is this, Shibuya Halloween? (In 2018, a Halloween crowd in Tokyo’s Shibuya district flipped over a parked light truck.)

渋谷ハロウィンか

Genius

天才

“Gachan Purin” lol

ガッチャンプリンで草

プッチンプリンガッチャンプリン

“Pucchin Purin” → “Gachan Purin.” Pucchin Purin is a famous pudding you pop out onto a plate by snapping a tab on the bottom of the cup; swap the little “pucchin” snap for “gachan,” the crash of a car rolling over.

I mean, can’t you just stick some packing tape on it and pull?

まあ、ガムテープで貼り付けて取るぐらいでは？

Genius~

天才～

Yeah, packing tape is probably the way…

Also, come to think of it, drink holders don’t need to be perfect circles. Given accidents like this, which are rare yet happen all the time, maybe they should put a bump or a notch somewhere around the edge.

やっぱしガムテープかなあ。。。ところでドリンクホルダーって、真円にする必要はないよね。まれによくあるこのような事故を考えると、周囲のどこかに凹凸を作っておいた方がいいかもしれない。

Stay calm and find a suction cup…!

落ち着いて吸盤を探すんだ…！

@NINTEN71030700 · View on X

Maybe some really strong double-sided tape would get it out?

協力な両面テープで取れたりしないかな

My take

So this is what they call a Cinderella fit.

Source & translation note

Comments loosely translated for tone. Reactions collected from Togetter and X threads.

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