Kevin Drum complains about unopenable cereal boxes, which makes me wonder what's going on in Orange County. Here in Buffalo, the cereal boxes are very easy to open -- you just slide your thumb in there, in the middle, and then slowly move your thumb toward the side, thus breaking the spot of glue holding the box shut on that side. You then repeat this action, on the other side. Voila -- an open cereal box, no fuss, no muss.
But we'll exit this topic right now, before I move onto the #$&%*!!! plastic bag inside the no-fuss cereal box.
(Actually, Kevin's framing of the question reminds me of all those "If we can put a man on the moon..." complaints, which connected with the "sealed food" issue in the first place reminds me of an excerpt from MAD Magazine's parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey:
BOWMAN: What's for dinner tonight?
POOLE: There's a glass of steak, a glass of corn, a glass of potatoes, and a glass of bread with butter.
BOWMAN: Anything to drink?
POOLE: Yeah -- a piece of coffee.
Ah, to be ten again and reading MAD Magazine....)
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