[Vision2020] Revising Shakespeare

[Dan Carscallen]

Somewhere I saw a suggestion that one should use a hand operated can opener
to open some of those plastic clamshell packages.  Haven't tried it yet, but
it makes sense to me.

 

DC

 

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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:52 AM
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Subject: [Vision2020] Revising Shakespeare

 

I wonder how many V2020ers have been bothered by the trend of making
packaged goods more and more difficult to open and to use.

A pair of industrial grade tin snips is needed to open some of the clamshell
type packaging, and even then it is difficult to open some packages without
marring or harming the contents.  The instructions for the use of some items
in clamshell packages are printed only on the packaging, which is thick,
clumsy, and outsized thereby making it difficult to store instead of being
printed on more normal sized paper.

in the last few months some genius has invented and this invention is being
used to package food, mostly frozen, in pouches which now take surgical
grade scissors to cut open, and hardly any or no flange is left to grasp
while opening to avoid spilling.

Perhaps Shakespeare's famous words about attorneys need to be revised
henceforth to:

"First we kill all the lawyers and packaging engineers."


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