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Your job is to trace the history of supermarket sandwich packaging

Started by Replies From View, July 04, 2022, 12:14:48 PM

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Quote from: idunnosomename on July 04, 2022, 12:16:43 PMMarks and spencer invented it

Source: brain

Ok go into the evolving packaging designs in immense detail, the different ways of folding them, the tabs and slots, the choice of sticky tape or glue.  Plastic windows where you can see the sandwiches:  go, start doing it

buttgammon

I hope this is better than Brian Confucius's book on the rise and fall of crisp packets with tranluscent windows, which was sold for £180 (£140 softcover) by Routledge and was riddled with typos and factual inaccuracies.

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dissolute ocelot

Oooh, I saw a seagull open a pre-packed sandwich last weekend, except it stuck its beak through the plastic window and pulled bits of sandwich out. Future, or cave-man tactics?

The Hapsburg emperors used to have their sandwiches packaged in a Slovene, being the driest of all the Slavs.

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Quote from: dissolute ocelot on July 04, 2022, 11:41:44 PMOooh, I saw a seagull open a pre-packed sandwich last weekend, except it stuck its beak through the plastic window and pulled bits of sandwich out. Future, or cave-man tactics?

A little bit of both. 

On QI they compared it to the way that chimpanzees and other obsolete primates access the fruit of their bananas ("humans have been opening them upside down this entire time" - you remember that humiliating presentation), and they say we should be bashing through the plastic windows of supermarket sandwiches, just like seagulls, as well as putting chocolate digestives topping-side-down on our tongues too, like how bees do it.

So, both ancient and "the future", as long as it catches on.