NOT MY BAG — by Steve Nadis
What’s with bags these days? I’m talking about, for instance, the large (16 ounce) rippled potato chips bags from Trader Joe’s or Nature’s Path granola (“Pumpkin Flaxplus”) I’ve been getting lately. Why does it take superhuman strength to open them without ripping them to shreds? I’m a guy who works out pretty regularly and still can’t make much headway with the new bag technology. Whatever happened to the bags that stayed closed when you wanted them to, but opened smoothly and uniformly with the gentle application of force? Why has something we took for granted for decades become so difficult to achieve in the new millennium?
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Posted by in 16:01:13
I think if you tried Fritos or Doritos, you’d find they’re still easy to open. It should be the other way around, though. That is, it’s the junk food that should be childproof, not the granola…
You’re right, GM. Some bag work the way they’re supposed to. So it’s not a totally lost art. But more and more, these days, don’t work right, and I, for one, don’t know why… –Snake
Snake, honey,
There is a new invention you might want to experiment with to address this problem. They are called “scissors.”
-Mom
I know about them but nothing works as good as a smoothly opening bag–like we used to have in the good old days. This I believe… –S