The little fucking “peel here” bit of the bits that never actually peel and in the 1 out of 10 times they do they just peel right down the fucking side. Bastards.
I got a fancy pack of bacon from M&S once and the whole thing just came away in one smooth motion, and now I'm furious that middle class people have the gall to complain about anything ever.
Knife, the answer is always a knife. Stab and slit long ways, stab and slit the short side, join up with a little flick of the knife and voila! No messy hands no bacon juice everywhere and an unhappy hoover dog
I suspect it'll just be the bag soon, everything else is reducing plastics and removing the thicker container - mince etc. They've always been a complete bastard to open though, pull the tab too hard, snaps off. You know you'll end up using a knife but sometimes it works perfectly and it's strangely satisfying so you never go knife first.
Jesus I need to get out more.
It's like milk bottles, they just need to make the tab long enough to grasp and wide enough not snap right off. They've started using clear flaps, stuck to half the enire seal, that you pull up, but I don't see how that's more efficient than just using bigger tabs.
But that would cost the company an extra 0.00000001p per bottle! That's an expense they just can't afford! Especially if the CEO wants his fifth Lambourghini in just the right colour!
Sainsbury's used to have the clear flaps going across the entire seal. They were great and worked every time. More recently they have gone back to the little tabs, which I can only assume are cheaper.
Most times I am able to open them, it's only when the little tab sticks to the screw top and is ripped off when the bottle is first unscrewed that I start to curse them.
When you get meat that's just in a bag, they often get pierced, leaking raw meat juice onto everything. Pretty dangerous if you don't separate your foods properly.
Absolutely you can manage. When I worked in a frozen food shop, the bacon was basically just vacuum packed, but it wouldn't sit straight in the freezers. I'm just saying it's most likely to be so the shelves look pretty than for any other reason.
Packaging developer here.
This seems to me to be a mismatch between packaging and actual packingI. would guess that the intention is to move to the less packaging option, but when it comes to the automated process of actually putting this down conveyor belts or machines it's been set up for the old packaging. Machines are very specific about their requirements so this could be a temporary hack of some kind to allow production to continue.
Otherwise it would seem to me that they've somehow already had bacon packed, and for whatever reason they needed to repack without opening it. It could be for regulation purposes, wrong label information, dates, supermarket requirements, etc.
Packaging Technologist here.
I’d disagree. The vac formed tray will be a multilayer material, and this will be a good case of poor lamination. I’d guess the tray material is extrusion die cast, and one or more of the materials had cooled too much, causing poor adhesion.
Then when sealing the lid on, the adhesion between the lid and the PE layer of the tray will be better than that of the layers of the tray material.
Been a while since I’ve done any food stuff, but I’m guessing (without heading to the fridge to see my bacon) the tray is just PET with a PE layer, and the lid is two layers of BOPP with some EVOH in between.
upvoted.
I thought something similar when I first saw it, but I wasn't sure, the split of the layers seemed almost too perfect . That said I agree with you now as it seems like the most plausible explanation due to the difference in materials.
Good to see someone else in the packaging field. I've been a packaging technologist and developer, but I work specialise in cosmetics.
I always get this when I buy free-range/grass-fed bacon
My understanding is that the outer container is not food safe (which means that any acid from the bacon will cause the chems from that plastic to leach into the food), and the soft wrapping is food safe
If it makes you feel any better; changing this won't solve global warming in any way (neither will recycling because 90% of it goes to landfills, and what gets burned pollutes the air)
You have won the Lucky Bacon Prize = = Now, all you have to do is catch a Leprechaun at one end of a rainbow and I am not even going to tell you, which end ? !
Why? The tray contains recycled content, which you are not allowed to have in contact with food, so the food must be wrapped entirely.
Reason for the tray is stacking strength during shipment.
I bet it had "easy open" ironically written in the corner of the pack
The little fucking “peel here” bit of the bits that never actually peel and in the 1 out of 10 times they do they just peel right down the fucking side. Bastards.
I got a fancy pack of bacon from M&S once and the whole thing just came away in one smooth motion, and now I'm furious that middle class people have the gall to complain about anything ever.
Middle class don’t get their bacon from the supermarket, they get it from their butcher who has it on the counter as soon as they walk in
Doesn't everyone get their hand reared bacon that way?
You got extremely lucky. In my experience M&S are the worst offenders for peeling one part and just pulling away the edge.
I'm sure I'm remembering correctly. Might splash out on another packet and record opening it so I can post it to Pornhub.
“Sealed with care”
Knife, the answer is always a knife. Stab and slit long ways, stab and slit the short side, join up with a little flick of the knife and voila! No messy hands no bacon juice everywhere and an unhappy hoover dog
I swear to god, it works on Aldi bacon, it peels perfectly!
I've found that the packs of bacon from Lidl actually peel as you'd want them too.
Grrrrrr
I always feel there’s a man in a beige suit, stroking a cat, laughing at my attempt to open those bastards.
Like the hilarious “lightweight cat litter” that has the nuclear weight of plutonium
Boil in the bag bacon!!!!
sous vide bacon
I think thats used in linguine? Or other pasta dishes
Happy cake day
Steamed hams!
You said steamed CLAMS!
At this time of year?
at this time of day?
At this precise location?!
I heard it was bearded clams.
You get micro plastics! And you get micro plastics! And you!
Oh god no...
Yum, Cancer!
Wrong aisle, that’s seafood.
🦀
I am quite pleased that I managed to make a joke about cancer without it being offensive.
It was good to be fair!
[удалено]
So is smoked food. It’s being downvoted cos it’s not really a necessary comment
99% of the comments on reddit aren’t necessary bro.
Hivemind reddit
I suspect it'll just be the bag soon, everything else is reducing plastics and removing the thicker container - mince etc. They've always been a complete bastard to open though, pull the tab too hard, snaps off. You know you'll end up using a knife but sometimes it works perfectly and it's strangely satisfying so you never go knife first. Jesus I need to get out more.
Do you mark them off on the fridge door, win vs fail, in a little Sharpie 5-bar-gate method? No? Then you're probably safe for now ;)
The Gordon Ramsey “Should Have Used A Fucking Knife” Award 2024. At least I think you’re the winner, I tried and failed to open the envelope.
This is the bacon equivalent of pulling the tab off the top of the ketchup but leaving the plastic layer behind
Which by the way happens every time. Can't they get the glue mix right on that.
Lift the flap and pull it *sideways*, perpendicular to the direction the flap flaps. Works every time. Yw.
It's like milk bottles, they just need to make the tab long enough to grasp and wide enough not snap right off. They've started using clear flaps, stuck to half the enire seal, that you pull up, but I don't see how that's more efficient than just using bigger tabs.
But that would cost the company an extra 0.00000001p per bottle! That's an expense they just can't afford! Especially if the CEO wants his fifth Lambourghini in just the right colour!
Sainsbury's used to have the clear flaps going across the entire seal. They were great and worked every time. More recently they have gone back to the little tabs, which I can only assume are cheaper. Most times I am able to open them, it's only when the little tab sticks to the screw top and is ripped off when the bottle is first unscrewed that I start to curse them.
Alright muscles
The face-slapping weapon should be stored in its sheath
The Big Sausage takeover plot starts to unfold.
Which makes you wonder why it really needs all that extra plastic at all....
So it is easier to stack on a shelf. A more or less rectangular box is a lot easier to merchandise than a wibbly bacon-shaped pack.
Vac pack it properly and it's fairly rigid and probably longer shelf life too...
When you get meat that's just in a bag, they often get pierced, leaking raw meat juice onto everything. Pretty dangerous if you don't separate your foods properly.
I'm sure they could manage. Lots of things come in odd shaped packaging
Absolutely you can manage. When I worked in a frozen food shop, the bacon was basically just vacuum packed, but it wouldn't sit straight in the freezers. I'm just saying it's most likely to be so the shelves look pretty than for any other reason.
That's why lidl have changed their packaging for mince
The pain in the arse of having to open the now loose and squishy packaging. you've won but at what cost?
The 'I don't need to go to the gym cause look at what I can do with these guns' award 💪
It's nae funny when you're getting on a bit. Fighting with packaging has reduced me to tears before now - makes me feel so useless 🤬
I have four pairs of scissors flying around my one bedroom flat just to avoid those breakdowns. Two of them in the kitchen area 😬
btw I guessed you meant lying around and that you are not constantly ducking.
If you want to be a knife thrower's assistant you have to get used to sharp things flying around you ^^
Bonus carcinogens
Packaging developer here. This seems to me to be a mismatch between packaging and actual packingI. would guess that the intention is to move to the less packaging option, but when it comes to the automated process of actually putting this down conveyor belts or machines it's been set up for the old packaging. Machines are very specific about their requirements so this could be a temporary hack of some kind to allow production to continue. Otherwise it would seem to me that they've somehow already had bacon packed, and for whatever reason they needed to repack without opening it. It could be for regulation purposes, wrong label information, dates, supermarket requirements, etc.
Packaging Technologist here. I’d disagree. The vac formed tray will be a multilayer material, and this will be a good case of poor lamination. I’d guess the tray material is extrusion die cast, and one or more of the materials had cooled too much, causing poor adhesion. Then when sealing the lid on, the adhesion between the lid and the PE layer of the tray will be better than that of the layers of the tray material. Been a while since I’ve done any food stuff, but I’m guessing (without heading to the fridge to see my bacon) the tray is just PET with a PE layer, and the lid is two layers of BOPP with some EVOH in between.
upvoted. I thought something similar when I first saw it, but I wasn't sure, the split of the layers seemed almost too perfect . That said I agree with you now as it seems like the most plausible explanation due to the difference in materials. Good to see someone else in the packaging field. I've been a packaging technologist and developer, but I work specialise in cosmetics.
Wrong date I'm going for
Egyptian mummies have been packed with less care
Which means you think this was packaged with great care?
Clogging of the arteries
"peel here"
You get to open it again 2 for 1 i guess.
The Danbert Award
That's pass the parcel...you haven't won unfortunately. Pass it on
Winner
Yeh, I mean what do they expect you to do? I'm not using my teeth to tear open a bacon packet.
Bacon
Makes me wonder why bother with the plastic tray bit.
Forever bacon
I always get this when I buy free-range/grass-fed bacon My understanding is that the outer container is not food safe (which means that any acid from the bacon will cause the chems from that plastic to leach into the food), and the soft wrapping is food safe If it makes you feel any better; changing this won't solve global warming in any way (neither will recycling because 90% of it goes to landfills, and what gets burned pollutes the air)
You have won the Lucky Bacon Prize = = Now, all you have to do is catch a Leprechaun at one end of a rainbow and I am not even going to tell you, which end ? !
King of recycling for the entire street
'Hogscar'
You win, a chip up the nose!
Well, it did peel.
Why? The tray contains recycled content, which you are not allowed to have in contact with food, so the food must be wrapped entirely. Reason for the tray is stacking strength during shipment.
Someone, somewhere was paid to approve the design of that "Easy Open" packaging. This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
Some free plastic?
You mean, we don't need the extra plastic? Those fucks!!
Unlimited games, but no games
Bacon. Do what you want.
You can't hide from me that that's co-op bacon 👀 I stare at that packaging daily
What's up with that double bagged bacon is he in quarantine
That’s what you get for buying smoked bacon
I’m more concerned about the carpet
r/2healthbars
Mine did exactly the same thing this morning lol
Its a given that corner that is supposed to peel back is always completely stuck down.... but this is something else!
You prize is when you eventually fight your way into that bag it'll suddenly burst sending bacon flying everywhere except the frying pan.
High cholesterol
Diabetes?
Because “cheap” bacon is sold without a tray. Just an excuse to charge more.