"Easy Open" packaging ISN'T...& it must be STOPPED!

[mopaul]

i am so sick of so called 'easy open' cereal boxes, or easy open medicine bottles, or easy open little chocolate donuts, because whoever designs these things is a cruel bastard with no human soul.

you know what i mean, you're hungry, you grab a can of campbell's soup with the easy open tab, like the ones on coke cans, but you pull it, and it only opens halfway, and the jerking motion it takes to tear the lid off, spills the bean with bacon soup all over your lap in a big, viscous lump.

even a bag of chips is almost impossible to get into. i just use impliments now, scissors, knives, boxcutters, anything to avoid the easy open hoax. and those little plastic packets of soy sauce at the chinese restaurant, that say, 'tear here' on the corner, i tear there, imagining a neat opening in the corner that acts as a direct conduit to your awaiting egg roll, but in reality, it tears the packet down the whole side, spilling black soy hither and yon.

this atrocity will not stand! if a package says 'easy open', you better check it! have a handy sharpened tool at the ready, or you'll just end up frustrated and running down the street naked, and screaming....again, like me.

[Champ]

1. Ha! I just bought 2 boxes of Dots

And I noticed they added a little "easy-opener" thingy. Btw, I nominate yours for the 'Best Signature on DU award' :D

[matcom]

2. you spilled hither and yon?

i think that is a violation of the Patriot Act nowadays. better watch yourself bub

[unblock]

3. kids today don't remember, but, ...

i remember when "easy opening" meant, well, easy opening.

ever since that tylenol scare, people in the packaging adhesives industry have been on a quest to ensure that the glue is stronger than the surrounding material. sounds great for as a legal position, doesn't it?

the problem, of course, is that the entire point of a glued opening is to be LESS strong than the surrounding material.

personally, i think temper-evident seals are much better than tamper-resistant seals. let it be genuinely easy-opening, just let it be obvious if someone else got to it first.

[Loonman]

4. Life is hard

Isn't it?

[CO Liberal]

5. Cereal Is The WORST

First, they sometimes use too much glue on the box, so you destroy the box opening it. Then they weld the damn plastic bagtogether, so you usually tear it to shreads trying to open it.

I wish they'd go back to the old waxed paper bags that you could fold closed.

[JM]

6. This leads to the most obvious new product idea

for anti-terror building construction...Perforated steel beams.

Everyone knows that any object is strongest at the perforation point where it is supposed to be separated. Therefore having steel beams with perforations every foot should be much stronger.

JM