I just boil and eat the entire box like any normal person.
Do I have incredibly weak thumbs, or does this instruction exist on boxes just to mess with us?
Submitted 10 months ago by AcornCarnage@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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over_clox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I pay for the box. I eat the box.
delvan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Most of the nutrients are in the rind, I’m aghast to learn that most people just throw the box away!
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months ago
If it tastes like it looks on the package, a viable option. Has probably more nutritional value, too.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
How do you tell when it’s done?
over_clox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When you can’t read the box anymore, obviously…
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The one that kills me is when the glue they use to close the box is stronger than the box itself, so you wind up just ripping it open.
SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I think you all just have weak thumbs. I’ve always opened them just as the package says to. Never had a problem.
As a kid, I would have thumb wrestling matches with my older brother, and sometimes, on weekends, I’d hitchhike. I used my thumbs a lot. I’ve had to replace 4 space bars on my keyboard.
Never skip thumb day.
regular_human@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s thumbthing weird about that image.
ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Where is that from? It seems oddly familiar.
Pappabosley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you even lift to open bro?
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I swear to God, in all my life I feel like it’s only worked fewer than 5 times.
Terevos@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think I’ve only got it twice. Maybe I should try harder
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You’re not extending your chi through your finger when you push. The instructions take that for granted, but they really should be more specific.
Terevos@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I tried extending my chi, but it just made my jar of salsa fall on the floor and shatter.
Chriszz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You didn’t expand your ki so you didn’t notice the chili fall. Idiot.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think you’re confusing your chi with your penis.
vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s possible, but it’s a very high Dex roll.
CaptainFortissimo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually just recently, after years of frustration, figured out a technique that works. You squeeze the box near the opening so that it bulges out. Then you can poke it with your finger and rip the top open. Feels like gutting a fish, which I assume now is what they were going for.
Jamie@jamie.moe 10 months ago
I usually just knuckle-punch them in.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 months ago
It’s not you. The only person that consistently works for is Freddy Krueger.
shanjezi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Edward Scissorhands
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Companies do a really bad job at product testing when it comes to opening stuff. The best ones are where you damage the product because it’s so hard to open. It’s like they never thought to actually try using the stupid little pull tab they give us to actually open their own product.
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 10 months ago
there is nothing more infuriating than buying a jar of salsa from the store, and then trying to open it only to have the jar fly out of your hands and break into tiny pieces that you now have to clean up along with salsa all over your floor.
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why is everyone in this thread absolutely mangling jars of salsa
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If it’s a jar with a metal twist-to-open lid, you can get a butter knife or similar, and dent the edge of the lid with the back of the knife- doesn’t take a lot of force, but it makes opening the jar way easier.
Poot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s not just you.
Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I ignore these instructions entirely and just open the flappy bits. I am an agent of chaos.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How?!
The glue is usually stronger than the box. I usually just resort to ripping off the top quarter of the box.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just rip open the top of the box instead.
That’s right, I’m a rebel.
Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know, I was just thinking earlier this week that of all the technologies we have, it’s weird how much we struggle with perforation.
Nemo@midwest.social 10 months ago
It’s not that your thumbs aren’t strong enough, it’s that they aren’t sharp enough.
dmention7@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Good God, the number of products where someone spent the time and effort to design in “systems” for opening/using the package, which are utterly ineffectual is mind boggling.
Did a flimsy cardboard box ever need some special tear tab to begin with?? Hell no, just glue the flap shut and we will open it like every other food box on the planet.
Shit that is infuriating.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You’re supposed to use your thumb to lift that flap, as instructed, not try to punch a hole in it.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 10 months ago
As instructed: ‘insert thumb’.
I don’t think I am the only one thinking inserting on a flat fragile surface means: “punch hole”.
If it had some cavity for your thumb to be inserted in it would make more sense.
“Grip corner and lift”?
garretble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I got a different brand of Mac and cheese once and it opened right up using the same instructions.
I feel like the name brand is just messing with people.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The Weaklings must be sacrificed to the pit of fire.
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 months ago
You aren’t supposed to use your thumb.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 months ago
An unsettling yet plausible interpretation
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I have pretty strong thumbs and generally just end up tearing off most of the top and being pissed at the stupid design.
Dave@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
I thought that’s how it was supposed to work?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Here’s the CEO of a company on national television showing off his company’s new packaging design. The instructions are to mess with you. Even CEOs can’t open their own damn products.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No way that’s real.
poopsmith@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How is this mac? I’ve never had it, but I love (and hate) the Kraft stuff.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Used to love kraft dinner. Til the big change. The one where their advertising campaign was that no one even noticed… Can’t stand it any more. Probably for the best, we used to eat a certainly unhealthy amount before. Like 3-4 meals a week, whether lunch or part of supper.
It just tastes like burnt cheddar now. Looked all over for a replacement, saw so many people claiming other products or recipes that taste “just like” the old KD. There are none. Those people are wrong. Either they are unwittingly non-tasters and thus unable to factor that into their endorsements, or they are aware they are wrong but are hoping to sell a product anyway.
There is no substitute, it will never be what it was, we have to accept it will never be again. And hopefully with it out of our lives, it will eventually find it’s way out of our minds. Can only console myself knowing that it was basically a drug that I probably am better off without… but man was it ever a good drug. Just a box full of comfort, with no immediate downside. I would probably invite it right back if I ever did exist again…
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol I relate to your love of a comfort garbage Mac and cheese AND unhealthy consumption of it.
Curious how long ago it was and if you ever tried the kraft thick and creamy? I don’t really eat much of it anymore but we always have that on hand for in case we want a frozen chicken strips + side kinda lazy night.
Death2lois@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Creamier, I think it has more cheese products and even less cheese. I like it though for something quick and easy.
theodewere@kbin.social 10 months ago
no kidding the last box of mac'n'cheese i opened, that was the TOUGHEST spot on the box, i just ripped the lid off
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you bite or trim your nails pretty far down?
dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Is the latter weird? Cause I don’t care for those white bits at the end.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have to grunt while you’re doing it like in karate.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ahhh. See, I usually couple my attempts with something like “you God damned piece of fucking shit just fucking open why do they even put these stupid fucking things on here.” I’ll try just grunting though.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
See that’s your problem. Too many syllables. You need one swift grunt to concentrate all your energy.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 10 months ago
I keep a knife handy just for the satisfaction of stabbing these annoying boxes. It’s rather cathartic.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Haha. Now that you mention it, I only reach for a knife when they really piss me off. Usually I just open it like a normal box.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What sort of lift are you inserting?
JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The ones Bernie put in his shoes before being seen in public. They clearly don’t help anyone.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just started doing one stab with a knife years ago and never looked back.
NarrativeNavigator@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 months ago
The Kraft Method
MxM111@kbin.social 10 months ago
The post does not say that you will be able to penetrate with the index finger. It just recommends to place the finger that way.
robdor@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
If you want to be able to penetrate with an index finger, I’m off work in about 2 hours. Wait…what?
theodewere@kbin.social 10 months ago
while you kiss your ass goodbye, and the box of noodles and cheesy flavoring defeats you yet again
NarrativeNavigator@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 months ago
I feel the secret might be how the thumb and middle finger squeeze the sides of the box.
I’ll try it out someday, but I probably won’t report back. (Don’t want to get your hopes up).
SouthernCanadian@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Look at the girth of that dude’s index finger. No wonder it works for him.
NarrativeNavigator@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 months ago
Hahaha
Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I used to just cut the top off of the box using a kitchen knife. I would start just below one of the corners, with the box on it’s side, and I sawed through it.
I got some funny looks for that one.
You know that the serrated lines aren’t great when cutting the cardboard with a kitchen knife is legitimately easier. The blade wasn’t serrated, either.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always go thumb from the top, so pretty much same position as photo 2. Still not happening.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
See… what you’re supposed to do… is… hold it between you’re two hands. Kinda lie you’re praying. jab your two thumbs into the tab, then pull outward and just rip the box in half. Alternatively, if you’re the Hulk or something, you can just grab either end and rip it in half that way.