[QUOTE=featherlou]
And if the package is large enough, you’ll reach a point where the scissors are getting stuck inside the tough plastic that won’t bend enough for you to continue moving the handles of the scissors…
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I would pay good money to see you in a zip-up sleeping bag. 
I detest those blister packs as well. I tend to use a matte knife, veerrry slowly- or I cut with scissors just inside the seal line but all the way around three sides. Otherwise yeah, one can be injured.
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
I would pay good money to see you in a zip-up sleeping bag.
I detest those blister packs as well. I tend to use a matte knife, veerrry slowly- or I cut with scissors just inside the seal line but all the way around three sides. Otherwise yeah, one can be injured.
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I saw an ad on TV the other day for a device that is specifically designed to open those things. Bet they will sell a million of them.
[QUOTE=Malienation]
A 4 lb. container of sugar! What’s wrong with this picture? :mad:
Now, the next time I buy a 5 lb. bag of sugar in the usual paper bag, the fucking sugar won’t fit in the container.
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It’s like the ten hot dogs/eight buns conundrum. You’re supposed to buy five of the plastic containers and four bags of sugar.
[QUOTE=MacTech]
I disagree, a hawkbill knife makes short work of those insipid clamshell and ultrasonicly welded packages, hook the tip into the packaging and just unzip, the point of the knife faces away from the product inside the packaging and away from you when you cut away from yourself…
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…As opposed as toward one’s crotch. 
That said, I agree – that’s the only reason I have a 4" lockback knife around – to SYSTEMATICALLY EVISCERATE, BUTTERFLY, AND DISMEMBER those ungodly packages.
[QUOTE=Tikki]
Hrumph! What burns me is ice cream. What looks like a half gallon usually isn’t anymore.
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And it has turnips in it.
[QUOTE=Tikki]
Hrumph! What burns me is ice cream. What looks like a half gallon usually isn’t anymore.
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Preach it.
Anybody else notice that a quart of Best Foods (Hellman’s east of the Rockies) mayonnaise is thirty ounces these days?
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
We’ve only had 4 lb bags available for some time. I suppose you can get 5 lb bags, if you hunt for them.
it’s called downsizing (or something); I call it corporate rip off-candy bars, tampons, and now flour and sugar.
Can’t wait until a “pound” of butter isn’t…
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(Emphasis added)
The Kit-Kat candy bar has the words “Kit-Kat” imprinted in it. That robs you of chocolate! That’s a clever chocolate-saving technique. I’m gonna go to the factory and tell them, “You owe me some letters!” [/Mitch Hedburg]
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Anybody else notice that a quart of Best Foods (Hellman’s east of the Rockies) mayonnaise is thirty ounces these days?
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I live east of the Rockies. I have two jars of Hellman’s Mayonnaise in the fridge.
Do I live too far east???
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
I would pay good money to see you in a zip-up sleeping bag.
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Yeah, that’s what they all say.
I dunno; razor blades, hawksbill knives; some of us just can’t handle sharp stuff without blood loss, you know? “Great - I got the package open; now, if they can just re-attach my finger…”
Maybe I’ll just get my husband to open them. He doesn’t seem to hurt himself nearly as much.
Packaging should not need explosives to open, nor a certain skill with sharp objects. No matter what I use to open clamshell plastic packages, I usually end up cutting myself…on the plastic!
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
I live east of the Rockies. I have two jars of Hellman’s Mayonnaise in the fridge.
Do I live too far east???
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I think he means that it’s Hellman’s east of the Rockies, and Best Foods west of the Rockies.
Well, that’s the beauty of the hawkbill, used properly (cut with the blade facing away from you), it’s actually safer than a conventional drop-point/spear-point/clip-point/leaf/wharncliffe blade style, as the point is facing away from the user, and the curve of the blade keeps the point away from the device in the package
the only safer knife design is the blunt-tipped “Sheepsfoot” blade, but the lack of a point makes it more difficult to open packaging needing a “piercing” maneuver to initiate the cut
it’s also a lot safer than stabbing with scissors, which are basically two knives joined by a pivot anyway…
My husband just started a new job this week for a company that designs packaging, mostly plastics. The first thing I told him when I found out what the company did was to find out what the deal is with that clamshell packaging. If he finds out why they do it that way, and how to open it, I will let you all know.
Let us know who came up with that clamshell idea, too. We want to…discusss…it with them. Or at least I do.
[QUOTE=Malienation]
I do a fair share of baking, so I ran out of sugar. Off to the store. While I was there, I noticed Domino Sugar has sugar packaged in a convenient plastic container (short and squat, low center of gravity to avoid spilling). 
A 4 lb. container of sugar! What’s wrong with this picture? :mad:
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At least you know it’s sugar, not pasta sauce.
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni]
Let us know who came up with that clamshell idea, too. We want to…discusss…it with them. Or at least I do.
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Oh, yeah, I want in on that…discussion too.
How about packing the inventor of these plastic clamshells in his own product, with a limited supply of air - he needs to get out or have someone cut him out before his air’s gone?
[QUOTE=Malienation]
A 4 lb. container of sugar! What’s wrong with this picture? :mad:
Now, the next time I buy a 5 lb. bag of sugar in the usual paper bag, the fucking sugar won’t fit in the container.
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Fella bilong missus flodnak likes Nesquik (a particular brand of chocolate milk mix). We have a 700g container. Every store I’ve looked in sells the 700g containers of Nesquik, and most sell only that size. So we can assume that 700g is their standard size, right?
So why do the “convenient refill packages!” only come in 500g or 1000g sizes? :dubious:
(Personally, I prefer O’Boy. Tastes better and the refills actually match the size of the reusable container. But the fella likes his Nesquik. Separate but equal chocolate milk mixes are a small price to pay for family harmony.)
I suppose it’s as hard to find a coupla bottles of Fox’s U-Bet syrup in Norway as it is to find a jar of Marmite in the local deli here.
I’m surprised they didn’t just go metric. That worked when 2 quart bottles of soda went to 2 liter. Which amounted to a hidden 8% shrinkage.
