So as I sit here munching away with my three dogs staring me down, I have to wonder what sadistic, *** engineer designs snack food packaging!? Really, why does all snack food, be it chips, cookies, Twinkies, cracker sandwiches or even a granola bar, have to be wrapped in the loudest and hardest to open material known to man?? Is there a hidden purpose in making a cheese and cracker pack sound like a Christmas present being shredded by a 7 year old? Any motive behind making a bag of pretzels pop like a mortar round when I finally put enough mussel to it? Do the designers ALL giggle at the thought of me sneaking to the garage to quietly open a bag of chips? I swear, this stuff has to be designed by wives and /or dogs! No self respecting man would be part of it!
Jeez, all I wanted was a snack, not a lesson in how to defeat the laws of acoustics in order to eat my find in peace.

Note to self: Retirement business opportunity> Stealth packaging for ALL midnight junk food!

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Dave

I've got this, it has a twist off top and even I can open it with my gimpy hands.

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my bags of Cheetos and shoestring potato canisters open easily and are even easier going down....

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There's nowt so queer as folk

You need a sharp pocket knife so you can eat in peace.

My carrot sticks are easy to open and snack on.

I just finished slicing open a sleeve of Ritz and several slices of summer sausage. The cheese was already opened and my newly discovered Wickles Pickles have a twist off top.

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Regards, Ron
USASA 1965/69

This^^ and I stopped buying/eating anything with a label of ingredients about 1 1/2 years ago - you won't miss that junk.

Lost 55 lb and feel great (at 65 yrs).

You are what you eat (just made that up.)

Dip the the carrot sticks in hummus

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Lou

Who cares what the bag sounds like as long as it's full of Cheetos?

What's the fun of that? Wives and doctors approve of those, and most dogs aren't interested in them.

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Oh well, what the hell.

My dog loves carrots....and just about everything else.

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Dum vivo cano

A real man has a knife on him wherever he goes. So, opening whatever piece of plastic doesn't have to be a loud event.

Further, get some Pringles. Those cans are easy to open without a lot of fanfare.

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Freedom isn't free.

Mix some ketchup and hot sauce 50/50 and dip your Cheetos in that - mmmmmm, mmmmmmm.

I was at Wally World today stocking up on grub. I had made a note on my list to look for Wickle's Pickles. I found pepper rings & a jar of what we used to call bread & butter pickles...I don't know why. The artwork on the jar is of a pickle & a chili pepper dancing. They are good! Sweet & spicy. Thanks for mentioning them in you post!

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I can open a bag of corn chips and my 85 pound pit bull shows up beside my chair wanting his share. Frank

This. I thought most guys carried pocket knives--and I live in MA. lol

If I'm not in bed or the shower, I have in my pockets a pocket knife, handkerchief (never used for blowing nose), AAA flashlight on keychain and 340PD. Packaging fears and trembles at my knife.

Frank, just be glad that your 85 pound pit bull only wants HIS share.

What bugs me about those mylar (I think) bags with about 100 psi locked inside is that when they do come open they rip down the sides letting some of the contents fall to the floor and I don't have an 85 lb Pit Bull to clean up the mess. Then you have to find another bag to put the remnants in if you didn't finish them off. And yes I always have my pocket knife (Benchmade, Mal Pardue design) but I guess I just think that opening a bag of crackers is something I should be able to accomplish without tools!

My girl Rita assumes that any paper or plastic bag I bring home contains a treat especially for her. She's a long legged whippet who can reach, nose and investigate any bags placed on counter tops and tables.

I have to admit that I spoil my girls and it's not uncommon for me to bring home a treat or a toy.

This is not a big problem but makes me feel bad when I disappoint. Rita and Sadie sure have me where they want me.

I have often wondered the same thing about packaging of snacks and chips and some are more noisy than others. I always have my pocket knife handy also and make quick work of the opening of the snacks and if there is any left in the package when you go to fold the top of it down so you can put a clip on it you can hear it down the block.

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James
On the Llano Estacado

I don't know if the bags are getting stronger or me weaker in the old age. But I have no problem getting those lard fried pork rinds open or the potato sticks in the can. You gotta love anything fried in lard or bacon grease.

Quite a few years ago I was out in the Black Hills for Rally Week with my sweetie. (We were on one bike because she had holed a piston outside Watertown, but that's another story). We stopped at the Coolidge Store on the way to ride the Custer Park wildlife loop, and she had gone inside to buy snacks while I smoked a cigar in the shade. When she came out, she had a couple of cold beers and a bag of pork rinds. That's when I knew for sure she was a keeper.

my Cat--loves the chili cheese flavored fritos corn chips--and as Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott said at least once: "I Dunna Understand that Captain."

Well, at one time in my life the noisiness of snack food wrapping served me well. I had a friend a long time ago that had a fair sized Doberman. The dog had never been properly socialized, & being around him was always risky business. Whenever I visited my friend & his girlfriend, on the way over I would stop at an ice house(Texan for convenience store!)& pick up one of those six packs of cookies with the real crackly cellophane wrapping. As soon as I knocked on the door, I could hear the dobie getting cranked up. When they opened the door, I'd have the hand that was holding the cookies straight out in front of me, shaking them as noisily as possible. The dobie would run up on me, ready to rip me limb from limb, see & hear the cookies & pause. As soon as he had worked it all out, he'd sit down & I'd give him a cookie & then walk to where i was going to sit. After he had finished the cookie, he would walk over & sit in front of me, practically on point. And that was pretty much how the visit would go;if I needed to get up, hit the john, grab another brew, I'd have to give him another cookie. Sometimes I would only give him a half cookie & hope he wouldn't notice, because I had to save one whole cookie to get out the door. Even though I was drinking, I never got too lit, because that eighty pound bundle of muscles & teeth was a pretty sobering influence.

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Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire

No human will ever fully fathom the mind of a cat.

I don't think I'd want to be able to read the mind of that Doberman.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Yeah no. I'm pretty sure the mental images that would have come out of his head would have benn disturbing, to say the least. Even though he & I had a few run ins, I actually felt sorry for him MOST of the time. Like I said, he was never properly socialized, as his owner liked the whole macho image of the big snarling & snapping dog.

I just realized something when I reread my post. The dog was a....wait for it....Sobering Doberman! I'm here all week! Tip your waiters & waitresses!

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Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire

Just tossed a honey roasted peanut to my aging Australian Shepherd - now he wants some jerky. Never satisfied.

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Sheamus

The instruction to open those modern packs are inside.

Regarding my 85 pound pit bull hereafter known as Bob. Found him at the front door with my brother in law. What transpired next was straight out of an abbot & costello comedy skit. Hey new dog?, nope thought it was yours. Found out that he had heartworm and would cost about1K to get cured. So Bob got cured of heartworm, also got dipped,clipped and chipped. We have had him for about three years now. He's my wife's protector. When she gets on the couch to watch tv he jumps up on the couch and lays on her. He has not shown any of the traits one usually attributed to pit bulls. He ignores the two cats and they ignore him. The other two dogs and him all get together extremely well. Doesn't even bark much. He probably got tossed out when the owners got the estimate for the heartworm treatment. He'll eat just about anything including corn chips. Frank

Reminds me of a Tim Conway sketch on the old Carol Burnett show in which he was demonstrating the advantages of the then-new childproof safety caps for medicine bottles. As I recall, he wound up shooting the sample with a Thompson, to no avail.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Goes with this old favourite:

"Doctor, doctor, you know those pills you gave me to build up my strength?"

"Yes"

"I can't get the top off the bottle".

The new packaging containing "Double Stuffed Oreos" is very easy to deal with, unlike some of the packaging shown in the clip below.

Larry David vs Bad Packaging - YouTube

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

Well of course! If you are anything like me, I'm getting into that bag of double stuffs if it takes a Skil saw!

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Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire

Heh heh, we may be a bit wild and unruly but, were not THAT unsophisticated here in Tejas--we do have a few Ice Houses--and believe t or not? we have one here locally called: Bubba's Ice-house.

Heh heh, tis true. Also, every time I get out of my TV viewing chair-my cat loves to jump in it even though her chair is right next to mine. Shasta did it to me twice during lunch today--refusing to allow me to watch a Star Trek (60s series) episode-so-ill have to try watching it again tonight when she is sleeping.

I opened a manner it didn't make any noise.

The only times ive come across pit bulls who were mean--were because they were trained to be mean. A long ago girlfriend I had-had a pit bull and she was the sweetest dog one could have. That dog hated being ignored so would forcibly put a tennis ball into one of your hands and one would have to spend at least 30 minutes throwing it for her to chase.

Off topic but we have two pits. Love licking yoo and sitting on couch as mentioned above. Oh n the female will drive u nuts with a tennis ball. Its all in the raising. All 3 of our dogs (1boxer) will eat anything they love vegetables.

You're preaching to the choir;I grew up in Texas...I know this!

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