You guys buy ice cream sammiches?
I’m pretty sure that the current thing to do is to make them yourself.
I bought a big package of Twizzlers awhile back that was supposed to be some sort of resealable package, but I couldn’t even figure out how to get it open in the first place. It looked like it should separate longways down the back somehow, but nothing I tried worked. I just wound up cutting the end of the package open with scissors and keeping the opened package in a zipper bag.
I had some accidentally liquified ice cream. I refroze it. Then I read online it is actually dangerous to eat refrozen ice cream. I wasn’t sure if that was simply alarmist or if it is a real danger. I decided to try it anyway. It didn’t even taste like ice cream. Not repulsive, but in no way enjoyable. So I threw it out.
Ice cream is mostly air. When it melts, the air bubbles collapse. Refreezing it will give a horrible texture and ice crystals will probably form, making it even less appetizing.
Ah yes, the “resealable” packages. There actually is a science to making these things useable, and maybe half of the time, they haven’t put enough planning into the design to make them work. If you’ve got the two edges glued together right down to the sealing strip, forget about it - I’m just going to just cut the whole damned thing off and twist tie the package shut. Then there’s the sub-standard sealing strips that some companies use, where you fight for five minutes to get the damned thing sealed again - once again, I’m back to twist ties.
Any frozen food that thaws to room temperature should not be refrozen. It might be perfectly safe, but then again it’s a risk. It would violate health code if a restaurant did it. Dairy products are good media for growth of bacteria.
I once purchased a thumb drive. It was attached to a 6x9 card. Delivered in a 36x24x9 box. No wonder why Staples is going out of business.
Or those damn plastic tubs of litter with the “Easy Open” tear strips. I can’t. I end up grabbing a pliers to pull that damn strip off, and half the time it breaks part way through.
I recently bought some face wash with a pump dispenser. I cannot twist it to make it pop up to save my life. Ditto moisturizer. At least with the face wash I can unscrew the top.
I’ve always thought the packaging/delivery system for Ice Cream sandwiches has been poorly thought-out.
They should be more like push-ups – a cardboard sleeve that opens on one end and has a mechanism inside the other end that is pushed through the sleeve to force the edible product out through the opened end.
Plastic (and cardboard) packaging from Costco (and many other stores) is, unfortunately thought out exceedingly well. The main goal of that huge package is to make shoplifting harder. That’s why a pico-SD card holds a zillion bytes of data on a chip smaller than the cross-section of an eyelash, but it’s hung on the display rack in a package about the size of a King-sized mattress.
–G!
Don’t be ridiculous. I’ve never exaggerated in my life – or anyone else’s, for that matter.
And especially if the pills are meant to be the ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ ones. They imply convenience; the packaging most certainly does not.
You’re not the only person with this problem - I’m 56 muther-freakin’ years old and I still have not cracked the code of these packages. Either I mash the entire top corner of the box in without getting it open, or I use a knife to make a hole and then end up ripping the corner off.
Also? Every time I see this thread title come up, I want an ice cream sandwich.
The melt in your mouth pills degrade very badly if they get damp (obviously – think of what they do after a few seconds in your mouth). A normal pill bottle wouldn’t keep them dry enough. I can actually attest to this. I had for some forgotten reason opened one of those and then didn’t take it, just put it in a pill bottle. A few months later I took it out and it was falling apart, just from the humidity inside the bottle.
Well sure - but needing a pair of scissors handy at all times to open the current packaging pretty much negates the point of having these kinds of pills in the first place.
I guess that’s true for some of those types of pills. During chemotherapy my wife was taking disintegrating ondansetron pills for nausea. The point of using a disintegrating pill wasn’t convenience – it was to ensure she didn’t vomit up the pill before it took effect.
If one wakes up in the middle of the night with an allergy attack or the beginnings of a migraine, it’s really nice to be able to take a med without hunting down a glass of water or fumbling with scissors.
This. The migraine rescue med I take has packaging that requires removing the thin cardboard beneath the blister, then pushing the pill through the underlying foil. Except the pill isn’t as solid as the foil, so it crumbles without breaking the foil, and it tastes pretty terrible.
Surely there’s a way to keep a tablet dry without making it impossible to get to it.
Be thankful that medicine is apportioned in the USA via coated pills. In Japan, medicines are often provided in portions that are customized for you – usually taking your weight (in grams) into account. That means you don’t get too strong (or too weak) of a dose; just what you need for what ails you. On the other hand, customizing that dosage means measuring out powders in milligrams (or less?) and those portions still have to be ingested. Since the medicine then lacks the convenient coating of the standard-sized pill or capsule, it means you generally have to taste whatever’s in it as it’s going down. Mixing the medicinal powder (though sometimes they’re liquids) into a drink just makes the drink taste foul – and you learn to hate that drink because it reminds you of when you had to take ______ medicine… 
My packaging peeve is the inner packaging of crackers and cereals.
Plastic packaging has become so sophisticated that grapes are now sold in pre-cut bunches within a cellophane bag closed by a form of zip-lock seal. Cheeses and a lot of other packages come that way, too – a little zip-lock at the top and a tear-away above that so there’s evidence of tampering (assuming you’re looking for that kind of thing).
So when Costco sells me a 4-lb twin-bag box of Cheez-Its do they really think I’m going to eat all of it in one sitting? Why isn’t there a resealing zipper at the top of those plastic bags? Obviously the technology is available because it’s used on a lot of things that, quite frankly, don’t need it. So why not on those Super-Size packages?
Even the ‘normal’ size package of snack crackers (Gold fish, cheez-its, triscuits, whatever) could benefit from that built-in zipper. It helps keep the product from going stale.
–G!
I regularly purchase Kemps mini ice cream sandwiches. They are not glued shut.