Jacobs Cream Crackers

[charliesteve]

Is it just me who has trouble opening a pack of cream crackers by the method shown on the pack. I have to revert to a sharp knife and cut the pack in half.

[Tilly2]

I don't cut the pack in half. I just cut through the top bit.

[Tilly2]

...I have never looked at the instructions! I must be a man. :-)

[Hazlinny]

Personally, I find that countless product packs, jars, etc. are so difficult to open these days - ditto for opening biscuit packs as you mention! I have just been wrestling with a packet of pandrops!

[tiggerblue10]

A lot of biscuit packets have a tear with a tag to pull at one end.

[ferlew]

Just been and looked at an unopened pack...nice little zig zag to reveal the red tear strip, a bit like a dairylea cheese triangle. (Never noticed it before though.) Thanks for mentioning it, I always slit the top of the pack.

[douglas9401]

I read about a man who ate nothing but these morning, noon and night.

I thought to myself 'that's just crackers'.

[Tilly2]

Cheesy, Douglas.

[tiggerblue10]

I've got one of these for bottles and jars, Hazlinny. Really handy.

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[Hopkirk]

First world problems

[Hazlinny]

Thanks Tigger - I do have something called a Jarkey but often forget it is in the drawer!!!

[barry1010]

Bottles of oil can be tricky - the little plastic tab you have to grab to pull the strip away from the cap is sometimes very hard to grip, or it breaks off.

[1ozzy]

Medication is the worst to open.
Those little blister packs spray tablets everywhere.

[barry1010]

I tend to crush capsules trying to get them out of blister packs.

[Impatiens]

I have discovered recently that turning blister packs over and gouging with a thumb nail into the thinner foil there can produce less dramatic results.

[MusicalN]

Nothing seems to be easy to open these days. An engineering degree is needed quite regularly !!

[lankeela]

I can never open cream crackers without breaking most of them! Also the worst thing I have found recently are McCains Quick Chips - trying to get the boxes out of the cellophane wrapper is a nightmare - I would love to challenge the CEO of McCains to open a pack without crushing the box!

[charliesteve]

While we have slightly drifted from cream crackers does anyone know how to open a bank safe.