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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.
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.
And then the quality department uses those complaint printouts to level their wobbly tables in the cafeteria.
Because the reports go unheeded by management until it costs them money, at which point the quality department get their arses kicked for not fixing the problem that management ignored.
Quality hasn’t printed out complaint reports since the 90s in most places. But, yeah about the same impact by the end of the day…or quarter.
The fucking texture of that cottony shit left behind, like nails on a chalkboard trying to rip it all off.
How about the ones that get fused to the opening like someone was welding fucking steel girders together on the Golden Gate Bridge?
The irony of that being true for my ADHD medication bottle is not at all lost on me. It’s like a tiny extra “fuck you”.
“Oh I’m sorry did you need some medication?”
Industrial SMAW welder whirring in background
Ugh, this is my migraine medication. I have to open the little blister packs in advance because they’re so hard to open that I often just can’t do it if I have a migraine…when I need the medication.
This! I just bought a water bottle, and it took the following measures just to get the residue from the label off:
- Soaking in warm, soapy water
- Scrubbing with an abrasive sponge
- Soaking in vinegar
- Scrubbing with Flash floor cleaner
- Immersion in boiling water for 30 mins
- Scrubbing with a Brillo pad
- WD-40
- 91% concentration laboratory-grade isopropanol
You need d-limonene (orange peel extract) for adhesive removals. It works wonders by comparison to the things you tried, but even then I can still spend a good 10 mins on the same problem!
I would have tried that if I had any. Somehow, I have laboratory grade chemicals in my room, but not a drop of orange oil in the entire house!
I hear you. I definitely recommend picking up a tiny bottle of it, a little goes a long way! I’m still using the same 6oz bottle I bought maybe 7 years ago!
Isn’t that just goo gone or am I mistaken?
It looks like Goo Gone has some in it, but it’s mostly petroleum based. D-limonene is a nifty (refined) by-product of citrus agriculture, it’s essentially just the oil from the peels. I use a product that’s basically half D-Limonene, half anionic and non-ionic surfactants (which is somewhat the equivalent of shampoo and sugar alcohol).
the worst is how my migraine medication comes in the most hard to open package
Try getting arthritis meds in a child proof container! Almost impossible to open even if your hands do work properly. Repeatedly ask to put in normal screw cap bottles but they never listen.
I’m not sure how peanut butter is sealed but usually foil lids are sealed with an induction sealer. Cap it’s tightened down (if not potential for a bad deal) and the foil in the cap is pushed tight to the bottle/jar. The metal heats up, melts the plastic and seals.
This one looks like a pressure seal, which as the name suggests seals by tightening the cap. In my experience from a packing QC standpoint the potential problems with a pressure seal are either the seal not sealing fully because the cap isn’t tightened enough, or the seal getting damaged by the cap being over tightened. This looks like a cheaply made seal wad to me. I dare say the QC department complained about it but management wanted to save a few cents.
This looks like a cheaply made seal wad to me
The seal looked to be perfectly vacuumed when I opened it, and the lid wasn’t a tight one, so I suspect you’re right. But someone else in the thread indicated that this may also be a “feature”? I’m not sure if it’s a post hoc rationalisation of shit supply purchase choice or a deliberate design decision or a manufacturing error, but it doesn’t matter. I hate it all the same.
Also, thanks for providing me with a proper specific name for these things, and the gift of your experience in all things sealed.
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…
Ugh. I believe them already. It’s sealed for my protection. I get it. It says so nearly 100 times. I don’t check the seals for syringe marks first either, or the factory’s latest cleanroom maintenance logs. Just let me in, I already paid the extortionate entry fee.
Seriously though, I wouldn’t mind so much if they always were just paper I could poke a finger through at the end. Sometimes there’s another super stretchy thick plastic layer under that which resists everything but blades. I don’t want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I’m getting to the point where I’ve thought about it.
My condolences, buddy.
Just chew through the container. Pussy.
I have a cutter exclusively for the kitchen. But i rarely get to use my can opener.
what am I looking at?
It needs to be the opposite of improved. If they improved it, you’d never get it open.
I’m looking at you clorox wipes…
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I hated the design of that too, so very much.
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.
