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It is adequate.
It performs it's function.

No need for extreme consumerism & garbage production.

OK. We'll start using single-use plastic.

I like the flour bags, I would hate to have to buy in plastic containers.

At least it's paper and not plastic

We should go back to cloth sacks that we can make dresses out of again!

what is the complaint? not enough testicular microplastics?

Says someone who's never tried to get flour out of a plastic bag before...

You want them to use plastic?
Then later complain about runaway plastic pollution?

The same kind of circular logic applied to politics leads people to not vote, arguing that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe and never make the connection that their chronic apathy and fickleness is what caused the mess the are apathetic about, only now with more cynicism.

Also, i guarantee that there are bugs infesting the flour section of your grocery store and they absolutely hitch rides on the bags home

Former grocery store worker.

The worst possible container for flour would be a hot sauce bottle.

Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.

Well you should be transferring it to a better vessel when you get home anyway. Flour really wants to be in something airtight.

Concrete: I will ruin your fucking life

I buy it in paper bags and transfer it to cereal Tupperware.

If I buy flour in bulk, like more than 10kg at a time, I vacuum seal it in bags and then freeze/thaw/freeze it to kill beasties.

Won't be long before flour companies start packaging with fabric so people can make clothes.

They should learn from the masters: cocaine smugglers package their goods in a variety of ways and the penalty for leaking even just a few particles can be high (heh).

Y'all know you can have a flour container at home that the bag goes into right?

Paper lets the flour breathe, releasing moisture. The grain isn’t 100% when milled and the milling process generates significant heat (mill some grain at home with a motorized mill and see). Warmth + moisture + hermetically sealed plastic smells like a nice way to grow some fungus.

Edit: isn’t 100% dry when milled.

Well we wouldn't want people to make dresses out of the packaging, now would we? That might be a drag on the economy.

Some techbro needs to start a subscription service for flour pods delivered by drone. Insert them into your $800 flour bank, and then whenever you need flour, you can just use the app to indicate how much the machine should dispense!

edit: the app also provides AI-generated recipes, and every time you use flour you'll automatically earn some FlourCoin cryptocurrency.

This is exactly why I mill my own threshed wheat.

Not sure I want to go back to wooden barrels holding 196lbs of flour.

Cloth sacks are cool too, but packaging cost is a real concern with bulky staples.

Just get a plastic bin.

The grain is harvested, milled, etc., ultimately processed into flour and bagged.

Warehoused, shipped, warehoused, shipped, stored, shelved.....then sold to you.

Cue people here telling you it's not supposed to be in a bag bc "it must know it's in your house now...."

The incredible strength of the glue on those bags guarantees they rip and always make a mess. Flour here is mostly sold in 5lb bags that perfectly fill a gallon jar, at least. I don't mind the paper at all but do you have to glue it down in this arrangement that guarantees ripping, with glue that could hold a bridge together?