Sometimes not even patience works. At those times I prefer a knife or scissors. Not something you find in a bar unless you bring a Swiss Army knife with you.
The four food bags that try patience the most as far as I’m concerned.
1. The rear fold is either completely heat sealed to the package with both ends heavily heat sealed or it’s heat sealed about half an inch to an inch too much on both ends and both ends are heavily sealed. Usually one of the easiest ways to open a bag of chips, trail mix, peanuts, cookies, or whatever is to flip that fold out then grasp it and the other side of the bag at on end and just pull. Completely sealing the fold to the bag or over seal the ends of the fold and then heavily sealing the ends is just a nightmare to get into without poking a hole in the bag.
2. Heavily sealing the ends without offering a way into the bag. The fold can be sealed on the bag so you can it up and grab it or there’s no fold at all and no place to tear the bag. They expect you to just grab opposite sides of the bag and pull it open, but they heavily seal the bag shut so no matter what you do you can’t open it without poking a hole in it.
3. The tear hear either doesn’t want to tear at that little rip or you can’t even tear into the rip to tear it open. Know how there are bags, usually the little condiment packets, where they put a little rip in one corner to make it easier to open there than at any other spot? Usually that’s so easy to open. But sometimes having that little rip is meaningless either because it’s too heavily sealed behind the rip or it’s too heavily sealed in front of the rip. Too heavily sealed behind the rip all you end up doing is widening that rip but never lengthening it and thus opening the bag. Or you see a tiny little rip but there is so much material you have to try and tear through just to get at that rip that it’s difficult to impossible to use that rip to easily open the bag.
4. The bag with the perforated line or the little red line that is supposed to make it easier to open but their put on the wrong side of the seal. Come on, you’ve sealed the bag twice, once for the actual seal and a second time for a marginal seal to close the perforated or stringed edge. Then using what’s supposed to make it so easy to get in you discover the actual seal you can’t get past without a knife or scissors. The worst is when there’s a zip lock to reseal the bag and it’s so close to the actual seal that you have to cut it off just to get into the bag, making it impossible to reseal the bag.
knight1192a over 8 years ago
Sometimes not even patience works. At those times I prefer a knife or scissors. Not something you find in a bar unless you bring a Swiss Army knife with you.
Spyderred over 8 years ago
It’s a container chosen for shipping, not use.
knight1192a over 8 years ago
The four food bags that try patience the most as far as I’m concerned.
1. The rear fold is either completely heat sealed to the package with both ends heavily heat sealed or it’s heat sealed about half an inch to an inch too much on both ends and both ends are heavily sealed. Usually one of the easiest ways to open a bag of chips, trail mix, peanuts, cookies, or whatever is to flip that fold out then grasp it and the other side of the bag at on end and just pull. Completely sealing the fold to the bag or over seal the ends of the fold and then heavily sealing the ends is just a nightmare to get into without poking a hole in the bag.
2. Heavily sealing the ends without offering a way into the bag. The fold can be sealed on the bag so you can it up and grab it or there’s no fold at all and no place to tear the bag. They expect you to just grab opposite sides of the bag and pull it open, but they heavily seal the bag shut so no matter what you do you can’t open it without poking a hole in it.
3. The tear hear either doesn’t want to tear at that little rip or you can’t even tear into the rip to tear it open. Know how there are bags, usually the little condiment packets, where they put a little rip in one corner to make it easier to open there than at any other spot? Usually that’s so easy to open. But sometimes having that little rip is meaningless either because it’s too heavily sealed behind the rip or it’s too heavily sealed in front of the rip. Too heavily sealed behind the rip all you end up doing is widening that rip but never lengthening it and thus opening the bag. Or you see a tiny little rip but there is so much material you have to try and tear through just to get at that rip that it’s difficult to impossible to use that rip to easily open the bag.
4. The bag with the perforated line or the little red line that is supposed to make it easier to open but their put on the wrong side of the seal. Come on, you’ve sealed the bag twice, once for the actual seal and a second time for a marginal seal to close the perforated or stringed edge. Then using what’s supposed to make it so easy to get in you discover the actual seal you can’t get past without a knife or scissors. The worst is when there’s a zip lock to reseal the bag and it’s so close to the actual seal that you have to cut it off just to get into the bag, making it impossible to reseal the bag.