Is Impenetrable Packaging On Confectionery Products Good For Your Health?

[BilSuth]

Especially in this era of stay-at-home deprivation, to open a packet of biscuits or sweets seems a fair reward for getting on belatedly with the neglected household chores. But it's not as simple as that.
The cellophane wrapping seems to be glued or sprayed on to the packed of goodies. A knife or fork prong may get you a suspicion of a pin-prick hole to give you a start on peeling off at least a strip of the wrapping, even though it stubbornly clings to you rather than drop into the waste-bin below. It is a force that defies gravity. More mess to pick up of the floor but you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Assume it's biscuits. The next battle is the cardboard packaging, inside of which is another plastic-type wrapping round the actual product. The biscuit at the end is usually slightly broken so that will mean a spillage of more crumbs, and the whole assembly is designed so that some biscuits cascade over the floor once you release the superhuman pressure needed to prise the accursed thing open.
Once you have swept up that mess, in addition to all the other energy expended, you will find that you have burnt off a lot more calories that you are about to consume. Enjoy.

[Buenchico]

I open packets of biscuits by feeling along to find where the gaps are between the biscuits and then using a sharp knife to slice in between them. It seems to work for me!

However . . .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1421698/60000-are-injured-by-opening-packaging.html

[BilSuth]

Hi Chico. I see from other posts that you are a bit of a handyman as opposed to just a low-level DIY-er like me. You obviously have experience and dexterity that I can only dream of. Cheers.

[jno]

it's not just confectionery. Try slicing round a pizza to get it out of its cellophane. One slip and it's blood and pineapple everywhere.

[Mozz71]

Ironically jno, I think I'd rather have the blood on my pizza out of those two options.

[jno]

I must admit my last Hawaiian pizza came out badly overdone - I should have cooked it at aloha temperature.

[Mozz71]

You shouldn't lei-f it in so long.

[BilSuth]

I need to give some of you folks a PEP talk -- Perpetrating Excruciating Puns.

[Old_Geezer]

Who buys blood & pineapple pizza ?

[shoota]

Make your own biscuits.
Make your own pizza.

[dannyk13]

Dracula

[dannyk13]

^ to OG^

[diddlydo]

Has nobody heard of scissors?

[vulcan42]

\\ Make your own pizza.//
have you tried opening a bag of flour recently? :o)

[marval]

Quick, it sounds like Vulcan has flour.

I open biscuits the same way as Buenchico does.

[shoota]

Grind your own flour ;-)

[jno]

you can still get 100-kilo bags of flour from builders' merchants. Good for making rock cakes.

[vulcan42]

jno, is that cement to be a joke?

[ummmm]

I always wonder how people with arthritis manage to open packaging.

[aelmpvw]

//has nobody heard of scissors?//
in our house it's 'ok, who's hidden the ******* scissors?'

[shoota]

That's the brand I use too Ael, *******.
They make knives too.