Bacon wraps always amazing, bacon wrappers still need work
Bacon – A cured meat prepared from a pig, bacon is first cured using large quantities of salt either in a brine or dry packing and the result is fresh bacon.
Delightful. Heavenly. The aroma of frying bacon has caused many to rise from their cozy beds to gravitate toward the deliciousness that is an American fave.
Everyone loves bacon—or should. It sits all pretty next to your eggs, adds all the flavor to a BLT, makes a bland salad come alive with crispy fun, and when used to wrap virtually ANYthing, well, the flavor is amazing.
Easy Kelly Hamlin, I know, I know. My friend bacon isn’t on top of the ol’ health charts and even though there is a turkey variety, we should all use our heads and moderate the consumption of this treat.
The fine print on the package just might want to warn against daily use, although I know plenty of folks that have lived to a ripe old age eating bacon each and every day.
Package? Did someone mention package?
Why yes, that would be me, the gal who has a severe deficiency when it comes to opening stuff.
Daughter Jamie was just here for a lovely visit, and she adores Mr. Bacon just as much as her mom, so of course the breakfast menu included our dear pal.
In addition to sharing taste buds I have also passed on the gadget deficiency gene that dis-allows the opening of, well, anything that needs to be opened.
So there we both are, staring at the unopened bacon package, sheepishly eyeballing each other while reaching for knives.
Immediately the ranting began.
We can’t help but wonder why, in the year 2013, we still have to hack into a package of bacon like savages.
There is absolutely no good safe way to unleash the fun without some kind of sharp object to assist.
So here’s our question:
Hey Oscar Mayer, how long have you been in business? Like, a bazillion years or something?
Why oh why can’t you come up with a decent package that easily opens and closes, keeping our unused bacon happy and fresh?
We’ve got zip-lock bags in every shape and size, easy pull tab shredded cheese (well, easy for most of you) bags that re-close, even the Oreo people have designed a stay fresh cookie package that even we can manage.
There simply must be an easier way to release our friend, and short of making an embarrassing youtube video of ourselves slicing our way into the package, we just aren’t sure how we should go about initiating this war on bacon packaging.
Of course, the poor package design will do nary one single thing to deter our consumption of these cured piggy slices of heaven, but again, 2013.
Giddyup packaging gurus—bacon lovers unite—let us keep the peace with the grease!
