FYI, reusable produce bags exist!
I just don’t put them in bags until checkout… Not sure if the cashier hates me or not.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I spent almost 10 mins trying to open one and finally gave up and just put my veggies right into the basket 😂
Lick a finger a little and it’ll open effortlessly.
But I’ve used that to scratch between my cheeks…
If ya clean the trench proper, ya aint gotta dig in the mud later.
Bwahahahaha
Cats: don’t you lick there too?
I’m not sure I can bring my cat to the store to help me open these bags sorry
Ew, no thanks. Better to exhale on your fingers the same way as when you want to fog up a pair of glasses. Then you’re not putting the same fingers in your mouth that we’re just on whatever surfaces you touched since you last washed your hands.
That or, if they spray the produce with a mist of water, touch the moist produce then open the bag
Look around: dirt and bacteria are all around! Booooo(or whatever bacteria say)!
Facepalm.
P.S. I don’t want to insult you, but you might want to check your head – I forget how this illness is called, but there exists a condition when a victim becomes unreasonably obsessed with cleanliness and is panically afraid of anything non-sterile. I suppose there are many stages in between too, so it isn’t like you either just don’t care or are mad as a hatter.
Mate, you might as well lick a grocery cart handle while you’re at it. And yes, there’s a wide range between germophobe and unhygienic troglodyte, but thank you for letting us know which end of that spectrum you fall
Hold the middle of the side that is supposed to open between your pointer finger and thumb and slide them in opposite directions. It almost always works for me :D
You guys put all the fresh stuff in plastic bags? Why not just straight into the shopping bag?
Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it’s either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.
Because it costs by the pound and you want to make it easy to weigh all vegetables together
Yeah same. Personal preference I guess.
Gently blowing on the opening sometimes works
Theres no reason to put most produce in bags. I don’t know why people are obsessed with plastic. People even put bananas in bags… Theyre already bagged!
I just don’t want anything touching the cart surface, I doubt they sanitize those regularly
You realize you’re supposed to wash your produce when you get home, right? There’s still pesticides on there.
I do, it’s just a psychological thing I guess, I’ve started taking my own reusable bag to the grocery store these days to cut down on plastic though
There is no part of the growing, harvesting, cargo packing, transportation, or store stocking process that’s making your produce too pristine to be soiled by a cart. A ride in a bag a couple miles to your house isn’t going to sanitize it either.
NO BANNNNNANNNNNA!
I have banana friends. I’m gonna meet you all now.
The plastic bag is folded on the sides. I have much more success if I start by pulling there, than attacking the opening directly. Hard to explain but you’ll figure it out.
I just find the non sealed end and make the pspspspsp (car call) finger motion and it opens up well enough when I have to use the bags
I love that you described it as the “cat call finger motion”. I knew what you meant immediately
Just stretch the bag carefully a bit on opening. Works every time! Simple.
I’d proudly and, like a snob, tell you that I’ve ascended beyond plastic bags by using reusable nets.
But I also keep forgetting the nets at home, so I use the plastic bags and promise myself not to forget. Only to forget again. FUCK.
You’re paying for the weight of that net at the register though, not much at once but it adds up.
Interesting, our supermarket has a provision for that, but I also weigh just the stuff without net, before packing it. So at least that’s working okay for me
You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it’s too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?
Actually we mostly use paper bags in our stores now, because they’re in a well integrated system where they can get recycled into something else.
That said, nets are a good idea which works every time you bring them. Which isn’t often.
Put the top in between your hands held flat like you’re praying, then move them back and forth in opposite directions like you’ve just came up with an evil plan, if that doesn’t work, then you’re holding the bottom, so just do it to the other end.
I have zero issue opening these bags but for some reason my mom and siblings really struggle.
Woah look at hr.reasonablymoisthands over here!
I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).
what if I have three hands?
Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.
The Mr. Miyagi method!
Exactly.
I usually wet the tip and rub it over and over until it comes.
Usually get some looks at the store but it works 100% of the time.
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Bring your own reusable bag.
I was at my local walmart today…
