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.
Just punch the top open. It will get the point after a few.
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.
Do you bite or trim your nails pretty far down?
Is the latter weird? Cause I don’t care for those white bits at the end.
Yeah they taste funny
This is honestly my favorite comment in the thread. I keep laughing about it.
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I swear to God, in all my life I feel like it’s only worked fewer than 5 times.
I think I’ve only got it twice. Maybe I should try harder
What sort of lift are you inserting?
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The ones Bernie put in his shoes before being seen in public. They clearly don’t help anyone.
It’s not just you.
The post does not say that you will be able to penetrate with the index finger. It just recommends to place the finger that way.
I feel the secret might be how the thumb and middle finger squeeze the sides of the box.
I’ll try it out someday, but I probably won’t report back. (Don’t want to get your hopes up).
If you want to be able to penetrate with an index finger, I’m off work in about 2 hours. Wait…what?
while you kiss your ass goodbye, and the box of noodles and cheesy flavoring defeats you yet again
Look at the girth of that dude’s index finger. No wonder it works for him.
Hahaha
I always go thumb from the top, so pretty much same position as photo 2. Still not happening.
See… what you’re supposed to do… is… hold it between you’re two hands. Kinda lie you’re praying. jab your two thumbs into the tab, then pull outward and just rip the box in half. Alternatively, if you’re the Hulk or something, you can just grab either end and rip it in half that way.
I used to just cut the top off of the box using a kitchen knife. I would start just below one of the corners, with the box on it’s side, and I sawed through it.
I got some funny looks for that one when I first did it on autopilot around other people lmao.
You know that the serrated lines on the box aren’t great when cutting the cardboard with a kitchen knife is legitimately easier. The blade wasn’t even serrated.
no kidding the last box of mac’n’cheese i opened, that was the TOUGHEST spot on the box, i just ripped the lid off
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.
I think you’re confusing your chi with your penis.
You didn’t expand your ki so you didn’t notice the chili fall. Idiot.
I got a different brand of Mac and cheese once and it opened right up using the same instructions.
I feel like the name brand is just messing with people.
I have pretty strong thumbs and generally just end up tearing off most of the top and being pissed at the stupid design.
I thought that’s how it was supposed to work?
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.
Are you trying to break through the side of the box or using your nail to pull the glued tab outward?
It isn’t a tab until you puncture the box, is it? Maybe I could try peeling it (kind of looks like it on that one), but usually it’s clearly supposed to have some sort of perforation.
I’m not sure about that. There’s the glued down tab that the text is printed on so my reading of the instructions suggests inserting your thumb underneath and lifting to peel it away like you mention above. This is supported by the lack of perforation.
Companies do a really bad job at product testing when it comes to opening stuff. The best ones are where you damage the product because it’s so hard to open. It’s like they never thought to actually try using the stupid little pull tab they give us to actually open their own product.
there is nothing more infuriating than buying a jar of salsa from the store, and then trying to open it only to have the jar fly out of your hands and break into tiny pieces that you now have to clean up along with salsa all over your floor.
Why is everyone in this thread absolutely mangling jars of salsa
lmao I’m just trying to get the lid off! I twist, nothing happens, I twist harder - lid comes off and jar goes fucking flying.
If it’s a jar with a metal twist-to-open lid, you can get a butter knife or similar, and dent the edge of the lid with the back of the knife- doesn’t take a lot of force, but it makes opening the jar way easier.
I have done this before and it doesn’t always work. They just get them on there so good and tight. I honestly just always make sure to open them over the counter now.
I find most accidents always happen when you try to give that extra oomph of force only to go too far. That’s how I put my hand through a window once.
Instead of trying to dent the lid, you can relieve the inner pressure of any containers like the salsa with metal lids by taking a spoon and sticking it between the lid and bottle to try to pry the side of the lid away from the bottle to create just enough of a gap to equalize the pressure. You don’t need to apply much pressure, you usually hear the pop of the lid when the pressure is equalized and then it should be much easier to open!
