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by Tourette on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 05:50:10 AM PDT

While I'm sure that there is some theft of cold cuts, freshness, tamper resistance and "convenience" is behind the packaging of food, e. g., the ubiquitous ZipPak and the seals that are broken by pulling a finger hole in the pourers of certains canned liquids. But nine out of ten times the "Pull Here" of a ZipPak still leaves me searching for scissors to complete the job, and the finger hole is barely big enough for a small pinky - which doesn't have the strength to do the job - leaving me searching for pliers to finish the job.

I think every idiot who designs these packaging nightmares should be required to spend a day repeatedly opening his or her design. In no time we'd have theft and tamper resistance that's also user friendly.

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