"Eat It All Now!" Packaging

They make me feel pretty great.

This is strange. I understand what each of these words mean individually, but put together in this fashion they relate a concept that is totally incomprehensible to me. :confused:

Not Snickers. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Even Keebler Fuckin’ Town House Crackers are pulling this shit lately. Take a few out and twist up that cellophane sleeve to keep the rest crispy - it turns to shreds in your hands.

I doubt very much that it’s not by design - I’ve noticed that my Comet toilet cleaner has larger holes now, so I’m supposed to use more every time I clean the toilet, and toothpaste tubes have long had a much bigger hole than they needed to, so you’d use more with every squeeze. See, it’s not up to YOU how much you use, or how often you buy - they’d very much like to take that out of your hands.

Oh, I have a good one for portion control determined by the manufacturer: A container of face cream that cannot be opened. Instead, it’s dispensed by pushing in the top. It outputs a mechanically controlled predetermined quantity of face cream that is twice as much as you can really use at one time. Not only that, when it runs low enough that the mechanism won’t output any more product, there’s still lots of product left on the bottom. But you can’t open the container to scoop it out, not without a hacksaw. So you are forced to waste it. I’ve trained myself to carefully only half-push in the top, and stop before it gets to the point where too much automatically comes out. The company is Garnier, and they make good, affordably-priced skincare products. But I wish they’d quit forcing you to waste product!

thin folk

Put a piece of masking tape over all the holes, except half of two holes. This way, you get just a sprinkle when you shake. In fact, you know that bit of adhesive paper that you peel off on a new can of scouring powder? I use that paper. I don’t use a specific product for cleaning toilets, just scouring powder, so YMMV.

SO I have to carry scissors everywhere I go now just to get into the snack food I bought because I was a little bit peckish?

Why do you hate the environment?

I’ve done that (on your advice last time I complained about it - it had never occurred to me before!), but a lot still comes out. I think I’ll have to get creative with the tape over the openings. I guess the point is, how many people are going to do that, versus how many people are just going to open it up and let fly? My guess is most of them.

Decant your comet into a pepper shaker or other device with appropriately sized holes.