I just boil and eat the entire box like any normal person.
Most of the nutrients are in the rind, I’m aghast to learn that most people just throw the box away!
I pay for the box. I eat the box.
How do you tell when it’s done?
When you can’t read the box anymore, obviously…
The one that kills me is when the glue they use to close the box is stronger than the box itself, so you wind up just ripping it open.
I think you all just have weak thumbs. I’ve always opened them just as the package says to. Never had a problem.
As a kid, I would have thumb wrestling matches with my older brother, and sometimes, on weekends, I’d hitchhike. I used my thumbs a lot. I’ve had to replace 4 space bars on my keyboard.
Never skip thumb day.
Me and the boys on thumb day
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s thumbthing weird about that image.
Where is that from? It seems oddly familiar.
Spy Kids
Ohh yaaaa
Do you even lift to open bro?
You’re not extending your chi through your finger when you push. The instructions take that for granted, but they really should be more specific.
I tried extending my chi, but it just made my jar of salsa fall on the floor and shatter.
It’s not that your thumbs aren’t strong enough, it’s that they aren’t sharp enough.
I just rip open the top of the box instead.
That’s right, I’m a rebel.
I actually just recently, after years of frustration, figured out a technique that works. You squeeze the box near the opening so that it bulges out. Then you can poke it with your finger and rip the top open. Feels like gutting a fish, which I assume now is what they were going for.
Here’s the CEO of a company on national television showing off his company’s new packaging design. The instructions are to mess with you. Even CEOs can’t open their own damn products.
No way that’s real.
I ignore these instructions entirely and just open the flappy bits. I am an agent of chaos.
How?!
The glue is usually stronger than the box. I usually just resort to ripping off the top quarter of the box.
Latest kitty litter I bought actually says “opens inward for easy pouring” 🙄. Worst part of the chore stabbing it with a finger and hooking the tab back through so it doesn’t block all the litter.
You have to grunt while you’re doing it like in karate.
Ahhh. See, I usually couple my attempts with something like “you God damned piece of fucking shit just fucking open why do they even put these stupid fucking things on here.” I’ll try just grunting though.
See that’s your problem. Too many syllables. You need one swift grunt to concentrate all your energy.
I just started doing one stab with a knife years ago and never looked back.
Just punch the top open. It will get the point after a few.
How is this mac? I’ve never had it, but I love (and hate) the Kraft stuff.
Good God, the number of products where someone spent the time and effort to design in “systems” for opening/using the package, which are utterly ineffectual is mind boggling.
Did a flimsy cardboard box ever need some special tear tab to begin with?? Hell no, just glue the flap shut and we will open it like every other food box on the planet.
Shit that is infuriating.
