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So this is three paragraphs of hate with no solution? The perforated ones work fine (Kikkoman soy sauce and the chick fil a ketchup dips are solid), it's just

So this is three paragraphs of hate with no solution? The perforated ones work fine (Kikkoman soy sauce and the chick fil a ketchup dips are solid), it's just when the condiment makers elect for the cheapest perforation or no perforation that they can some times, maybe, need to adjust your grip or use a fork. Is your solution no condiments because you personally struggle or even more waste by requiring more plastic containers with a lid like what salsa comes in or the much larger containers like what the nugget sauces come in?

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> So this is three paragraphs of hate with no solution? Welcome to the Internet. Maybe I have a decade-long stroke of bad luck, but "use a fork" is almost a default - except the intersection of restaurants serving condiment packets and restaurants serving metal utensils is... empty set, in my experience. > Is your solution no condiments because you personally struggle Ideally, they'd just make the perforations better and align them better, or just do whatever it is the makers of VIFON instant noodle soups do with the "flavor concentrate" packets - they're still not the easiest one to open, but there is always an area on one or two edges where you can tear it perpendicularly to the edge, and it'll tear off the entire adjacent edge in one swift go. > or even more waste by requiring more plastic containers with a lid like what salsa comes in or the much larger containers like what the nugget sauces come in? I'd have to check, but I think the little plastic containers my local pizza companies use for sauces in delivery orders would come out way ahead, because a) they have better ratio of surface to volume (flat condiment pack is literally about the least efficient you can get), b) nobody in their right mind would size them down to equivalent of single condiment package, and c) they're made from thin, single-type plastic - while condiment packages are some weird plastic/metal/foil combination that also doubles as advertising space.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

> So this is three paragraphs of hate with no solution? Welcome to the Internet. Maybe I have a decade-long stroke of bad luck, but "use a fork" is almost a default - except the intersection of restaurants serving condiment packets and restaurants serving metal utensils is... empty set, in my experience. > Is your solution no condiments because you personally struggle Ideally, they'd just make the perforations better and align them better, or just do whatever it is the makers of VIFON instant noodle soups do with the "flavor concentrate" packets - they're still not the easiest one to open, but there is always an area on one or two edges where you can tear it perpendicularly to the edge, and it'll tear off the entire adjacent edge in one swift go. > or even more waste by requiring more plastic containers with a lid like what salsa comes in or the much larger containers like what the nugget sauces come in? I'd have to check, but I think the little plastic containers my local pizza companies use for sauces in delivery orders would come out way ahead, because a) they have better ratio of surface to volume (flat condiment pack is literally about the least efficient you can get), b) nobody in their right mind would size them down to equivalent of single condiment package, and c) they're made from thin, single-type plastic - while condiment packages are some weird plastic/metal/foil combination that also doubles as advertising space.