# Every package of grapes is open

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411 "2014-04-05T13:29:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411/41 "2014-04-07T15:07:49Z")

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I like it! As long as they are washed somehow.

But personally, I don’t recall ever buying grapes that weren’t good.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411/42 "2014-04-07T17:47:36Z")

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This is why I don’t buy or eat grapes. Too many people sticking their germy hands all over them.

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**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411/43 "2014-04-07T19:18:52Z")

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To get back to the original question: At least in the case of the store I work in, the bags are open because they come that way from the warehouse.

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**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411/44 "2014-04-07T19:31:47Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> This is why I don’t buy or eat grapes. Too many people sticking their germy hands all over them.

This is why many folks have allergies and auto-immune disorders. They are[too clean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis).

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-package-of-grapes-is-open/685411/45 "2014-04-07T21:13:09Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> This is why I don’t buy or eat grapes. Too many people sticking their germy hands all over them.

I heard some of these things are actually left for months at a time, out in the filthy outdoors before packaging. Outdoors! The same place animals live in.

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