Mildly Infuriating

Somebody had to do it.

the secret is they should be using wax instead of glues, but that requires a warm squeeze and they are trying to save a thousandth of a penny and hope nobody notices. i email the CEOs about it.

The fucking texture of that cottony shit left behind, like nails on a chalkboard trying to rip it all off.

The glues work fine, it's the paper/cardboard that failed because the glue was stronger.

It's the worst when it happens to boxes because instead of collapsing a box proper you have to tear it to fucking pieces, THANKS OBAMA.

the worst is how my migraine medication comes in the most hard to open package

How about the ones that get fused to the opening like someone was welding fucking steel girders together on the Golden Gate Bridge?

You may be interested to know that these kinds of paper adhesives are usually intentionally designed so that the substrate (paper) tears before the adhesive does. This is meant to ensure robust packing and to give proof that the package has not been tampered with. Couple this with ever thinner and shittier substrates, and, well...

It needs to be the opposite of improved. If they improved it, you'd never get it open.

Do you want good adhesive properties or to not taste the adhesive in your food?

This and every single perforated paper/plastic that never fucking tears correctly.

But that costs money and how are we gonna make even more money if we reinvest any of the earnings? 😩

They need to talk to the people who make flour bags. Those paper bags glued shut with the strongest glue known to man, so that they are impossible to open without tearing a big hole in the bag, rendering it impossible to store the flour in.

They keep a record of complaints as part of their CAPA. Any food related issues should always be reported, helps quality dept.s push for more funding.

Literally me today with a small soap container, but it was a trifecta: the lid separated from a plastic seal under it as with the picture, with the tiniest of rim you can barely get with your fingernails to pry it off to begin with, and a seal so strong you can't just puncture it with you fingers.

As with another suggestion I just used thermite.

I remember the days before most things had seals over the opening.

Drill through the bottom!

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am I looking at glue that didn't come off, or something that spoiled because the glue didn't hold?

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I haven't tried to open this way forever. Puncture the top and pull to the outside.

What we need to talk about are the built-in ziplock style closers on plastic bags that are everywhere now. Even makers of premium foods can't seem to get this right. I can only think of one product where the closer is an improvement on having nothing.

Boar's Head Deli meat. I guess the guys who sell spam for the price of a good steak can spare the expense.