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 😂
Most of the produce bags here have handles. I found that the meeting place where the “handle” meets the “bag” to be the easiest spot to separate. I just rub the bag between my fingers in that area and usually it only takes a single rub for it to separate.
Same with trying to peel double-sided tape
Dont lick your finger, the veggies get sprayed with water. Wet your finger with the clean water and the bag will open for you. Just like everything else in this life: Its better when its wetter.
Except paper bags and toilet paper before you wipe
And socks.
And toilet seats.
A duvet that hasn’t been fully dried is miserable to sleep in.
Dear god. I’m going to have a nightmare about that tonight I think. Just the weird awkward weight…the odd humidity nearby…the impending thought of mildew…
It’s the weird damp sensation when you lay it over you that does it for me. Makes my skin crawl thinking about it.
You people just creeped me out. Like, I was going to close the page.
Nearly too much internet for a sec there.
I got over it.
You can also just breath onto the bag too. Just enough to get the condensation to lightly form and it does the same thing. Although I also just grab a drop of water that’s on the produce container where it sprays sometimes.
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.
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 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.
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
I have zero issue opening these bags but for some reason my mom and siblings really struggle.
Woah look at hr.reasonablymoisthands over here!
Just stretch the bag carefully a bit on opening. Works every time! Simple.
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 was at my local walmart today…
just remember which side is the opening, or you’ll accidentally tear the wrong side
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
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.
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
NO BANNNNNANNNNNA!
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world
I have banana friends. I’m gonna meet you all now.
Lick a finger a little and it’ll open effortlessly.
But I’ve used that to scratch between my cheeks…
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
If ya clean the trench proper, ya aint gotta dig in the mud later.
Bwahahahaha
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
I aggressively rub the side that’s meant to open between my fingers and typically that opens it a bit, and from there you just try to separate that while doing the bag open wave.
I would like to see more comments that start with the words “I aggressively rub”.
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