Produce Manager here. Place the end that opens directly between your two palms, and rub your palms together vigorously. The bag will stick to one palm or both, opening every time. Please stop licking your fingers to open these bags and then picking through our vegetables. You’re gross.
Vegetable Farmer here. That shit is already gross. Wash your veggies.
Produce Manager here. Thanks for all of the gross vegetables!
Consumer of vegetables here. Where can I find the yams?
Yam section. Can’t miss it.
deleted by creator
Yeah, most people are aware of the process, though it doesn’t make adding human saliva to the mix at the store level any more wholesome. There are a number of ways to open a plastic bag that don’t involve your tongue.
I knew there will be a comment like this.
A breath of hot air also makes the bag stick to your hands and easy to separate. Like you’re trying to fog a window.
Just buy reusable mesh bags and stop wasting plastic to protect your produce for a 20 minute car ride.
There’s no way I’m getting to my car when opening a bag is this hard
“Joke about the inability to open a car because the inability to open a little bag”
;-)
The joke is the same as in the picture. As in: since I’m having so much trouble opening this bag I will never get to my car because I’ll be stuck here trying to open this bag. Hope that helps!
“just put the fruit in the cart” gang represent
Right? Just gonna wash it anyway
Just dump all the loose blueberries into it.
I put them in my pockets and hope I don’t bump into anyone.
You’re a savage, go back to the forest.
We still reuse the plastic bags around here… so, not a total waste I guess.
Not all of those bags are the same.
The produce bag rolls at most stores around me are compostable now. They are also breathable and will keep the produce fresh longer when left in the bag.
Compostable means they can be recycled, which isn’t as good as reusing, which isn’t as good as reducing.
Reduce>Reuse>Recycle
The “waste” is negligible; doing some napkin math, a 20 minute car ride accounts for 300 times higher carbon footprint than a plastic produce bag (can elaborate if you want). A reused mesh bag is going to be less hygienic and less convenient, and factoring in the higher footprint of production and distribution (produce bags come in packs of thousands) you would need to get a lot of reuse out of it to even be worth it. Considering impact of disposal, as long as you live somewhere that has sane waste disposal and doesn’t empty their trash into the ocean it’s not going to be significant either.
People need to get some perspective on plastic waste. I’ve seen no end of complaints about how my 3d printing hobby is responsible for climate change… In my country, we produce >200 kg of plastic per capita. My 1kg spool of vegetable-derived plastic is not to blame for passing 3°.
I think it’s just since it is a visible thing, and because alternatives are products you can buy and be seen using, it becomes a prime target for scolding and virtue signalling.
It’s like complaining about a phone charger being left in the socket when the windows are open with the AC on.
Those produce bags weigh like 1/4 of a gram. Those produce reusable bags weigh like 30 grams. Most people lose or break, or toss the reusable produce bags before using them 120 times. It’s feel good bullshit for high consuming Whole Foods shoppers. And it’s a distraction.
To be clear, I’m all for reusable grocery bags, and generally against single use items. But the produce bags are so thin and light, they’re probably the least problematic.
It’s less about the carbon and more about the fact that it doesn’t degrade. It’s plastic pollution.
Best part is I can carry 2-3 fully loaded reusable bags vs 12 flimsy plastic ones that split and overflow.
in sweden we have paper bags that are then used for food waste recycling at home.
simply use the moisture from the sprayers
I’ve touched sprayed produce before just for the grip. 🥴
The what now? I haven’t seen those since the early '90s.
They’re still in use everywhere I’ve shopped
At least the bags say “OPEN HERE”. We’d be fucked if they said “OPEN IN ZIMBABWE” or something like that.
Not sure, I might have just figured out Steven Wright’s Lemmy account.
Excuse me? That was a George Carlin joke I stole.
All you do is put the top between the palms of your hands and rub them together like you’ve just come up with an evil plan and they pop open.
I’ll try for five minutes and find out it opens on the other end.
I do this with dog poop bags, it’s so frustrating!
I use ones that are explicitly labelled with a black strip. My tactic for opening them is to put them between my lips and blow, which works pretty well but got really weird during the mandatory masking periods.
As a person with eternally sweaty palms, this right here is my superpower. (⌐■-■)
just rub it between your fingers, it isn’t rocket science 🙄
My hands are too dry for this to be effective
That should actually help
You must be shrooming. There’s a reason people moisten their fingers when working with stuff like this.
They do it with paper because paper is porous.
I would encourage you to read and understand things before behaving like an unpleasant and haughty know-it-all
You didn’t even click my link because if you read it, then you’d have to admit that you’ve been embarrassingly wrong this entire time, starting with that eye-rolling emoji. That’s really hard for you, isn’t it – to admit that you’re wrong.
I touch the moist sprayers to wet my fingers enough and the opening of the bag is always the part that’s already detached.
Those two tips help.
You’d think that!
deleted by creator
I go to the broccolis and touch the usually wet crate first.
If you listen closely you can hear him whisper words of wisdom such as: “I’ve tried both ends five times now!”, “I think this one must be defective!”, or my personal favorite “I don’t think these are the same brand they had out last week!”
Sounds like me plugging in a USB stick.
USB plugs are actually a great at-home demonstration of quantum mechanics. The USB plug exists in a quantum superposition of alignment - being simultaneously correctly aligned and not aligned until being inserted. Once insertion is attempted, the wave function collapses to a random alignment.
Damn… I thought I was the only one that noticed they switched the plastic bag brand.
They usually have the good green ones, but then sometimes they have the clear ones that are harder to open
All of them are clear ones here, you just notice these new ones are harder to open, and then you start reading the fine print at the lower end of the bag… yep, not the same ones as last week 😂.
Crumple it into a ball and straighten it again. Then put it between your flat hands and rub them against each other.
The small wrinkles from crumpling break cohesion between the layers, and the friction from rubbing separates them.Burn the witch!
Put the opening “line” between your big hands and rub it; both hands goes along the “opening line”, one hand moves one way, the other hand the other way for say some centimetres or an inch or two, change direction, repeat.
Sometimes works, sometimes I’m rubbing away like a boy scout trying to get his fire starter merit badge
Just lick your fingers first! The grocery store sells food products, it and its patrons have to be hygienic …
/s
I have dry hands, these are my nemesis
I just wave it around frantically until the wind opens it.
This doesn’t usually work 😂. Tried it a few times 😂.
