Packaging - the good, the bad, the ugly

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Philadelphia cream cheese in a box: really annoying, bad packaging. But I couldn't bring myself to pay more than a dollar more for a plastic tub of cream cheese.

Quaker oats in the round cardboard tube: bad packaging - you can't pour it out without getting oats everywhere.

Bananas: great packaging, although peels bruise.

Packaging pet peeves and praise here.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.goldeneggs.com.au/product_range/circle-goodeggs.gifgood packaging

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

cans of soda. awesome!

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for compostable cornplastic packaging!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Those packaging peanuts you can eat and that decompose -- great.

A huge box with a little box in it with a padded envelope in it and a tiny thing in that (like how an SD card recently came to me): dud

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Solves all of your banana-bruising problems:

http://www.bananaguard.com/images/open_thumb.jpg

― you better believe it (you better believe it), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

(You can get it here: http://www.bananaguard.com/)

― you better believe it (you better believe it), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

i am in LOVE

http://www.kosher.com/images/products/product/012/41198017012/41198017012-jason-bread-crumbs-plain-1.jpg

― jergïns, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://timesonline.typepad.com/urban_dirt/images/2008/01/20/geogm.jpg

― Bodrick III, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

Quaker oats in the round cardboard tube: bad packaging - you can't pour it out without getting oats everywhere.

No way, these are perfect for measuring cups to scoop into.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.yuanpengchina.com/images/blister%20packs.jpg

Blister packs, always cool.

― Bodrick III, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

i get a smile on my face every time i go to the grocery store and notice that screaming yellow zonkers packaging hasnt changed since 1972

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/Zonkers3.JPG/180px-Zonkers3.JPG

― and what, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

ugh

http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/Zonkers.jpg

― and what, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Jergs, love the bread crumbs but I'll see you those and raise you this!

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Images/wondra2.jpg

― Laurel, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

http://griffinandhoxie.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/kix.jpg

― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Monday, 2 March 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

General Mills Retro Cereal Boxes

― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Monday, 2 March 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.philamfood.com/images/P/8850869010250.jpg

I love this.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

good "call"

― candid gamera (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 October 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

strikes a cord

― Super Cub, Sunday, 24 October 2010 04:39 (fifteen years ago)

Oh shit!!! I am in LOVE with that stuff; I get it for like $1.35 in Chinatown and then LOL thinking abt all the ppl that spend like $8 for agar flakes at Whole Foods.

― mother cabrini maxwell (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 October 2010 05:04 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3378/3182409233_fca19290d7.jpg

i liked the way the above was put together - no plastic, just 6 or so slices of card with holes cut in them put together as a block. the hanger slides in and out. the band that holds it all together slots in and locks (with a simple barb).

― koogs, Sunday, 24 October 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

Aye, Sennheiser have some awesome Eco packaging.

― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 24 October 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)

I cannot stand Styrofoam and I have no idea why it's still in use in some areas. The big packs of Eggland's Best come in the Styrofoam packaging, I wish it would all come in recyclable plastic as the EB 6-packs do.

I'm also sick to death of those plastic packages with the bubble tabs. You're supposed to be able to open them easy but the sides are usually sealed down.

I loathe those Eco-Keep Cases on recent DVD releases because they are very easy to dent up and rip. I don't see how they are an improvement. The Amaray cases were perfectly fine, held up well and were recyclable to begin with.

― Just breaking it in, feels comfy (MintIce), Sunday, 24 October 2010 13:33 (fifteen years ago)

The sound of styrofoam squeaking is my least favorite sound.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 24 October 2010 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

english eggs have come in papier mache cartons since time began. back in the day you'd take the cartons back to the grocer and they'd refill them.

― koogs, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

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