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!
NO BANNNNNANNNNNA!
I have banana friends. I’m gonna meet you all now.
I use one bag but have my veggies out and separate. And unless it’s potatoes and/or any alum family, I tell them to just toss them all in the same bag.
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
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 try to avoid plastic waste, but am too absent minded to remember my reusables. So I do the same thing the only time the bagger gets told to keep things separate is if there are potatoes and onions. Those things need to be kept separate!
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.
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).
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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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.
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.
A duvet that hasn’t been fully dried is miserable to sleep in.
And toilet seats.
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.
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.
The struggle is real.
…the easiest way to open these IME, is to lightly lick your thumb and the neighboring finger. This makes the respective sides of the bag stick to them for easier opening.
When masks were mandatory, I couldn’t do this and tried for over a minute to open the damn bag.
I found that if I start with the cold vegetable, I could use their moisture to wet my fingers.
This is the correct answer. The sides of the bag are held together by a static charge. Wetting your fingers allows you to dissipate the charge, so the sides come apart.
The produce is all wet. Just touch the thing youre going to buy to get your fingers wet - not lick it you foul fuck
I’m guessing your supermarket uses those fog thingies? They’re not used everywhere, i.e. not all produce is wet.
Only places that have those foggers have produce bags.
You are a jerk.
Also, I don’t touch produce. When I deal with these plastic bags, I am using them to line my thermal bag, to carry home my hot meal of fried or glazed chicken. This is because the carrying pouch the store puts the chicken into has air holes - which means that my thermal bag would get dirty.
OK that was a bit much. I thought you were saying you went and licked your fingers each time you opened the bag just before squeezing the store tomatoes to find the right one.
you sick fuck. who fondles their fruits and veg at the store?
I usually molest them in the bathroom before checkout.
the high pressure flush cleans them right up before I put them back in my ass.
Nobody forced you to usher those words you sick freak
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.
just remember which side is the opening, or you’ll accidentally tear the wrong side
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.
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.
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
That’s easy. Just flip it, then flip it over again, just like a USB plug.
Instructions unclear, penis caught in ceiling fan again…
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 (cat call) finger motion and it opens up well enough when I have to use the bags
That requires friction between fingers and bag to be higher than friction between the two sides of the plastic bag, and for me it never is
