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stoutfellowToday, I have no classes and no committee meetings. This is a good thing: it's been raining steadily all morning, with intermittent thunder. I've only gone outside to get the paper.
I was planning to make a grocery run, but I'm thinking I've got enough in the way of staples to hold off for another day.
Speaking of staples: I normally have two loaves of bread in the house - one sweetish (potato bread, most recently) for PB&J, and one with more body for meat & cheese sandwiches. I've been buying Brownberry Oatnut for the latter purpose; it has a nice flavor and consistency. Each loaf is double-wrapped; there's a loose outer wrap, sealed with a twist-tie, and a tight inner wrap. The inner wrap has bothered me for some time now; there's no convenient way to open it. The end of the loaf is sealed using - call it a Christmas-present wrap, with the ends folded triangularly and sealed together. Opening it requires tearing them apart, and they really can't be folded back together to re-form the tight seal. The most I've been able to do is close the outer wrap as close in as possible.
This morning, I opened a new loaf of Oatnut. They've changed the sealing. Now, the end is flat and featureless, with no obvious point of weakness; the sealing lies along the sides, and it would be ridiculous to open it along those seams. I wound up taking a knife and slitting along three sides of the end.
Why do they do things like this?
I was planning to make a grocery run, but I'm thinking I've got enough in the way of staples to hold off for another day.
Speaking of staples: I normally have two loaves of bread in the house - one sweetish (potato bread, most recently) for PB&J, and one with more body for meat & cheese sandwiches. I've been buying Brownberry Oatnut for the latter purpose; it has a nice flavor and consistency. Each loaf is double-wrapped; there's a loose outer wrap, sealed with a twist-tie, and a tight inner wrap. The inner wrap has bothered me for some time now; there's no convenient way to open it. The end of the loaf is sealed using - call it a Christmas-present wrap, with the ends folded triangularly and sealed together. Opening it requires tearing them apart, and they really can't be folded back together to re-form the tight seal. The most I've been able to do is close the outer wrap as close in as possible.
This morning, I opened a new loaf of Oatnut. They've changed the sealing. Now, the end is flat and featureless, with no obvious point of weakness; the sealing lies along the sides, and it would be ridiculous to open it along those seams. I wound up taking a knife and slitting along three sides of the end.
Why do they do things like this?
