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
"just put the fruit in the cart" gang represent
We still reuse the plastic bags around here... so, not a total waste I guess.
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°.
It's less about the carbon and more about the fact that it doesn't degrade. It's plastic pollution.
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.
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?
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.
bonus points if you actually come up with an evil plan while you're doing it
simply use the moisture from the sprayers
I've touched sprayed produce before just for the grip. 🥴
At least the bags say "OPEN HERE". We'd be fucked if they said "OPEN IN ZIMBABWE" or something like that.
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!
As a person with eternally sweaty palms, this right here is my superpower. (⌐■-■)
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.
I go to the broccolis and touch the usually wet crate first.
Highlight of my life was shortly after I broke my arm, someone saw me struggling with one of these one-handed and opened it for me like the damn lockpicking lawyer. I've considered taking my sling with me shopping ever since, in case I need another good Samaritan to open one of these godforsaken bags again
It takes three times longer to open a dog poop bag when you are out in the cold and can't even feel your damn finger tips.
Just lick your fingers first! The grocery store sells food products, it and its patrons have to be hygienic …
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Breath on your fingers like you're trying to fog up glass. Immediately open by running your fingers in opposite directions along the edge, using the additional friction you created.
Instructions unclear, bag is stuck in my glasses
Please don't breathe your germs onto my vegetables
Keep my vegetables out your fucking mouth.
Well I hope you're going to wash them anyway. There's already a bunch more worse shit than a bit of breath condensation from a guy standing a few feet away breathing onto his hands.
I just wave it around frantically until the wind opens it.
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.
I just tap the tips of my finger and thumb to my tongue for a bit of moisture and then they open right up.
This is what I always did before covid but now I don't anymore.
But at that point I’ve already wandered the whole store and have touched any number of things that could have been manhandled by all the other finger-licking, unmasked hand-sneezing, butt-scratching, non-hand-washing straw men in the grocery store. One of those dudes is a septic tank cleaner, and he doesn’t wear gloves because he says he’s allergic! And soap burns when it gets into all the oozing sores on his hands.
There’s no way I’m licking my fingers until I’ve washed them or at least forgotten about my pus-leaking, poop-handed caricature!
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.
I have dry hands, these are my nemesis
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