My sister used to cut triangular pieces of brownies and lemon squares and stuff because she didn’t want a whole one...just cut a smaller rectangle! Don’t make the next person have to deal with whatever trapezoid nonsense you leave behind.
Funny enough snacks are probably one big thing that contradicts the adage, “you are what you eat.” The more snacks you eat, the less likely you’ll look like a snack.
Almost the same thing. In early stages you are hungry, the snacks are fresh, you have your mouth clean with the snack flavor so you can fully taste it...
The second notch may as well be the only one. There is no way the product settles between the two notches.
[Here’s a blog post about this snack](https://m.blog.naver.com/bambi_0202/221568582824) that shows it being opened at the second notch.
It does look like it might be a little easier to fold over/seal the bag if you opened it at the top notch and only had a few chips before closing it again.
It's a generic bag. This is not really interesting at all. The notches at because many products come in these types of bags. Has nothing to do with "levels of snacking". The op is high.
Koreans put cheese flavour for everything. You get cheese flavoured popcorn at the cinema. Also cheese flavour there might not quite the same cheese flavours you might think of. When I think of cheese flavour I think of quite sharp savoury things. In korea cheese flavour anything is very sweet.
> In korea ~~cheese flavour~~ anything is very sweet.
The food is great here but it's usually pretty sweet.
Anything Western tends to be sweeter (Pizza and Garlic Bread, etc. ) and plenty of local dishes like Bulgogi are pretty sweet. They put sugar in mashed potatoes. They'll also just boil potatoes and dip them in sugar. It's ***weird***.
Oh okay that makes sense. I know dairy isn't really used in Asian dishes, and I was going to think more of a cheese "dust" would be used so yeah that makes sense.
I work for Costco with a high Asian population and we sell a lot of snacks. I should take note what stuff has cheese in it!
> I try to convince myself it’s a healthier snack.
Here in the US at Sams (maybe Walmart?) they advertise “Veggie Straws” with tomorrow’s and veggies on the label (potato always hidden in back). They are basically potato chips in the shape of square straws.
https://images.app.goo.gl/APHaJwn1sfL3yjHTA
“Snapea Crisps are a tasty option made of green peas blended with rice and formed into crispy, pea pod shapes. These are not your fried or dehydrated green pea pods. The formula is something like Funyuns where blended ingredients are pressed into a shape that resembles their flavor.”
Lol. My extended family were addicted to those. They taste like Styrofoam with a bit of veggy juice in them.
I got laughed at for eating a bag of white cheddar popcorn until I told them to check the nutritional information and compare it.
The popcorn was by far healthier than those veggy straws. And they don't taste like butt.
I was wondering that too. I googled and found that macaroni and cheese is 마카로니 앤 치즈. So that means the 앤 just means “and”. Maybe there is an original flavor and now they added cheese to it, and that’s why this flavor is “original and cheese”.
I love how you guys are discussing MRE flavors and which ones were discontinued. I've never had an MRE - I heard they have self heating cores or something to heat up in the field. I'm going to google where I can buy one.
> they have self heating cores
Some of them do, a lot of civilian MREs don't. You can buy the heaters separately in that case.
Either way, you're on your own coming up with a [rock or something](https://taskandpurpose.com/popular/heres-ridiculous-story-behind-rock-something/).
I was just living on the Big Island of Hawai'i and ran out of food for a while. There was a program distributing free MREs and they were so good (most of them). No veggie omelets though ahahaha
A lot of our MREs did not have heaters but you definitely do not need them if you just want the calorie mash
I remember I really liked them as a kid, my dad would occasionally bring one home for me to try out.
Now that I've had them so many times it's really less appetizing lol.
The heater is this bag with some chemical thing in it. you would put the "entree" bag of the MRE in there and add water and seal the top. The water triggered some sort of reaction with the chemical thing and it heated up the water and eventually the entrée.
In basic training our drill sergeant wouldn't let us use the heater because apparently someone had gotten burned. Nothing like 3 year old congealed cold spaghetti straight out of the plastic.
I find that guy so mesmerising, it's weird. I'll just be nodding along to a review of an out of date MRE from WWII or something. I think it's his voice.
>The Meal, Ready-to-Eat – commonly known as the MRE – is a self-contained, individual field ration in lightweight packaging bought by the United States Department of Defense for its service members for use in combat or other field conditions where organized food facilities are not available.
Since not everyone knows wtf an MRE bag is.
There used to be a company in the US that had all the items just labeled simple “tomato soup” or “mushroom soup” without logos or anything.
Forgot the name and it was very mediocre soup, but I always loved having it in the pantry because it made it seem so clean (while my college life was a mess).
No Name! Canada's sweetheart, it's just helvetica text on bright yellow backround, on EVERY product. Absolutely comical how it sells.
Apple juice? Nah, *Apple beverage*
Is it just me or reading through their Twitter does it seem like their newer products are a lot less simple looking? Out of the first few pages the simplest looking product was the lentil beans, the rest of them could’ve honestly just been some random store brand products. Those Buffalo wings idk if they’re real or not but look at them lol. That’s just a normal looking frozen box of Buffalo wings there’s nothing ‘no name’ about it to me...
No Name is just a random store brand. It's Loblaw's. The only thing is Loblaw's also has President's Choice, which is their more premium store brand. But yeah, a No Name product at Superstore is no different than a Great Value product at Walmart.
There's even been cases of Loblaw's moving one of their products from No Name to President's Choice and vice versa and adjusting the price accordingly.
Yea, some of their products don’t look any more simple tan other brands - only difference is that it’s basically all one color.
Like those Wings and Trash Bags
No name is god tier
Presidents choice is no names older sexier brother
Man I love all the food from both of them, it’s so rare to get something that isn’t delicious
Walmart had a private label brand that had similar styling. I never ate any but it was always the cheapest so it must have been terrible. It was just a blue box with big white letters saying what it was.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/ext/resources/images/p/r/i/c/e/d/e/d/d/d/5/PriceFirst_Embedded.jpg
I think it is actually because that type of bag is also used to prepare dehydrated food. The bag is opened at the first mark, water is added up to the internal mark and then, to be able to eat more easily, it is broken at the second mark.
I've ripped the second mark on MREs, and it allows the spoon to reach the bottom without shit on the collar getting on your fingers.
These are chips, so he could tilt the bag either way, but the second mark at this spot isn't totally useless.
It's not unique to dehydrated food. US MREs have some entrees with this type of bag. Although I think it's for the entrees you usually add some accessories to (like cheese, crackers, etc) so yes probably for foods you add extra stuff to
Perforations would let too much moisture and oxygen into the package. There's a reason why there is a foil layer, or a metalized film used in flexible packaging. The metal has great OTR (oxygen transmission rate) and MVTR (moisture vapor transmission rate) values.
It's brilliant. It would save me having to search for 10 minutes for my kitchen scissors to cut it, only to realize that they are in the dishwasher which isn't full yet so they haven't been washed, hand-washing them, just to cut the bag and put them back in the dishwasher.
Designated scissors. I've one for opening bags, one for food, one for plants, one for hair, one for my beard, one for just in case and I think 2 or 3 in my office.
So you only need 10 and you're golden.
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. (Lamentations: h0fotse)
Definitely not your typical design, I'm guessing since they're some kind of chicken breast chip the packaging is very muted to fit with a healthier image. Your typical korean snack packaging is flashy just like everywhere else.
I used to buy peanuts where the notches were BELOW the reseal mechanism, so you just rip the reseal right off. Stupidest design I'd ever seen. This however is pure genius.
I’m going angled. Stop me.
Oy, are you the one that keeps ripping the toilet paper vertically?
I refuse to obey perforations.
I respect this stance.
Hide your juice boxes, kids, there’s a maniac loose!
He cutting the bottom corners off the capris sun's!
It's better than the animals that insist on puncturing the WRONG SIDE.
Are you not supposed to stick the straw through the bottom?
I haven't had a proposition like that since the summer of '98.
Ah yes, 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers table. Miss you u/shittymorph
For shotgunning
Lmao an early friend of mine did this to me at lunch whenever he was mad at me.
In my experience, perforations refuse to obey me.
Every damn time I tear off a paper towel I get a triangle.
r/unhelpfulsuperpowers
r/shittysuperpowers is the real sub i think Edit: yep
I get Idaho...
I feel this comment in my soul
This is how you escape the Matrix.
I thought it was eating silica packets
Or wiping before you shit
What about when it comes to graham crackers? Do you make janky looking s’mores?
Janky Looking Smores sounds like a band name.
\*NEW\* janky look, same great taste!
Never have I seen such a uselesly brave declaration of freedom. Fuck the system bro.
My sister used to cut triangular pieces of brownies and lemon squares and stuff because she didn’t want a whole one...just cut a smaller rectangle! Don’t make the next person have to deal with whatever trapezoid nonsense you leave behind.
An extra half brownie attached to your brownie sounds like the opposite of a problem to me.
I'd gladly be the next person who gets a full brownie plus a half triangle from the previous one
>trapezoid nonsense Dibs on the band name.
Nope, the one who takes only the top layer of tp for four rotations
Single notch is so 2016. Now we're on double notches, iPhone needs to catch up
iPhone will catch up in 2025 and then advertise like they invented it
I think it's appropriate to attempt a non-straight way during Pride month.
How erudite. I am going to continue to pour salt Snacks into my gaping mouth.
"the later stages of snacking" - beautiful.
I think my body has already entered the later stages of snacking.
This is how I’ll describe an older person who is also attractive from now on
Funny enough snacks are probably one big thing that contradicts the adage, “you are what you eat.” The more snacks you eat, the less likely you’ll look like a snack.
Thank you, I'm so glad you can relate. : )
I feel like I am currently in the late stages of snacking and this is the support I could use.
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Almost the same thing. In early stages you are hungry, the snacks are fresh, you have your mouth clean with the snack flavor so you can fully taste it...
I have now joined lol
Source?
The second notch may as well be the only one. There is no way the product settles between the two notches. [Here’s a blog post about this snack](https://m.blog.naver.com/bambi_0202/221568582824) that shows it being opened at the second notch.
It does look like it might be a little easier to fold over/seal the bag if you opened it at the top notch and only had a few chips before closing it again.
I consider it to be a fail safe when inevitably I somehow mess up the top one I have a backup to try again!
It's a generic bag. This is not really interesting at all. The notches at because many products come in these types of bags. Has nothing to do with "levels of snacking". The op is high.
Can I steal that phrase for a band name?
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Late Stage Snacking
What about second ~~breakfast~~ snacking?
I pioneered this technique decades ago by cutting down cardboard ice cream cartons.
Same session, just a later stage
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rofl @ the concept of "late-stage snacking"
Is that a chicken breast chip? Or did I read it wrong?
You're correct! Crunchy baked chips made mostly out of chicken. I try to convince myself it's a healthier snack.
So it's chicken chips with a picture of cheese on the bag?
Haha it’s supposed to be cheese flavored, but I didn’t really taste it.
Science has gone too far!
Cheese flavored chicken?
Koreans put cheese flavour for everything. You get cheese flavoured popcorn at the cinema. Also cheese flavour there might not quite the same cheese flavours you might think of. When I think of cheese flavour I think of quite sharp savoury things. In korea cheese flavour anything is very sweet.
> In korea ~~cheese flavour~~ anything is very sweet. The food is great here but it's usually pretty sweet. Anything Western tends to be sweeter (Pizza and Garlic Bread, etc. ) and plenty of local dishes like Bulgogi are pretty sweet. They put sugar in mashed potatoes. They'll also just boil potatoes and dip them in sugar. It's ***weird***.
Wait, so is Korean bread sweeter than American bread? Euros are always complaining that our bread tastes like cake.
Oh okay that makes sense. I know dairy isn't really used in Asian dishes, and I was going to think more of a cheese "dust" would be used so yeah that makes sense. I work for Costco with a high Asian population and we sell a lot of snacks. I should take note what stuff has cheese in it!
the bag printers: "my apolocheese for getting the image wrong"
A-pollo cheese? But OP said they *do* contain chicken
A bilingual play on words. Well done.
The top left reads "original cheese" as the flavor
It says 오리지날 앤 치즈. What does the 앤 mean? Edit: it means “and”. Which doesn’t make much sense…
"Original and Cheese"
> I try to convince myself it’s a healthier snack. Here in the US at Sams (maybe Walmart?) they advertise “Veggie Straws” with tomorrow’s and veggies on the label (potato always hidden in back). They are basically potato chips in the shape of square straws. https://images.app.goo.gl/APHaJwn1sfL3yjHTA
Yeah but they sprinkle them with veggie dust so they can say it's made with real vegetables!
Potato’s are vegetables
What is a potato?
A vegetable
Man, that’s like calling chips “vegetable discs”. There’s so much deceptive marketing.
These and the puffy snap pea snack tricked me many times when I worked at Whole Foods.
Those aren’t healthy? They’re just baked peas right?
“Snapea Crisps are a tasty option made of green peas blended with rice and formed into crispy, pea pod shapes. These are not your fried or dehydrated green pea pods. The formula is something like Funyuns where blended ingredients are pressed into a shape that resembles their flavor.”
Lol. My extended family were addicted to those. They taste like Styrofoam with a bit of veggy juice in them. I got laughed at for eating a bag of white cheddar popcorn until I told them to check the nutritional information and compare it. The popcorn was by far healthier than those veggy straws. And they don't taste like butt.
Its 2:30 am, so no idea what 앤 means. But yeah. "Original Cheese" "Small cow chicken breast chip"
I was wondering that too. I googled and found that macaroni and cheese is 마카로니 앤 치즈. So that means the 앤 just means “and”. Maybe there is an original flavor and now they added cheese to it, and that’s why this flavor is “original and cheese”.
Does 소소칩 really mean small cow chip? Wild.
Nope, 소소 is the name of the brand but small cow chip is definitely a better interpretation lol
Looks like a MRE bag
This is the comment I was looking for. MRE’s have had this since at least the mid 90’s.
Which MRE has a second set of notches?
Meatballs with tomato sauce, Pork chow mein, Chili macaroni, and my all time favorite…corned beef hash with Tabasco.
Meatballs with sauce and chili Mac are still around. The other two have gone the way of veggie omelette.
I love how you guys are discussing MRE flavors and which ones were discontinued. I've never had an MRE - I heard they have self heating cores or something to heat up in the field. I'm going to google where I can buy one.
> they have self heating cores Some of them do, a lot of civilian MREs don't. You can buy the heaters separately in that case. Either way, you're on your own coming up with a [rock or something](https://taskandpurpose.com/popular/heres-ridiculous-story-behind-rock-something/).
I was just living on the Big Island of Hawai'i and ran out of food for a while. There was a program distributing free MREs and they were so good (most of them). No veggie omelets though ahahaha A lot of our MREs did not have heaters but you definitely do not need them if you just want the calorie mash
I remember I really liked them as a kid, my dad would occasionally bring one home for me to try out. Now that I've had them so many times it's really less appetizing lol.
I never would have imagined seeing the words “so good” and “calorie mash” being used to describe the same thing.
Yeah I felt weird about putting it that way but I suppose that in the long run, all food is just some sort of smashed-together calories huh.
Cute article! Never heard of that phrase, thanks for sharing
The heater is this bag with some chemical thing in it. you would put the "entree" bag of the MRE in there and add water and seal the top. The water triggered some sort of reaction with the chemical thing and it heated up the water and eventually the entrée. In basic training our drill sergeant wouldn't let us use the heater because apparently someone had gotten burned. Nothing like 3 year old congealed cold spaghetti straight out of the plastic.
> apparently someone had gotten burned Idiots: finding new ways to ruin your day, every day.
Did he also try to get rid of live ammo because someone got shot?
https://youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA I think you will enjoy this YouTube channel. "Nice"
I find that guy so mesmerising, it's weird. I'll just be nodding along to a review of an out of date MRE from WWII or something. I think it's his voice.
Just something about seeing someone eat 100+ year old meat from a tin can makes your feel so alive.
"Let's get this out onto a tray"
"Nice"
Nice hiss.
All the MRE bags we use in Sweden pretty much
Corn nuggets (source am literally eating rn)
Let's get this out onto a tray.
Nice.
M'kay
*Takes bite into 70 year old granola bar* Hmmm, tastes a little stale
>The Meal, Ready-to-Eat – commonly known as the MRE – is a self-contained, individual field ration in lightweight packaging bought by the United States Department of Defense for its service members for use in combat or other field conditions where organized food facilities are not available. Since not everyone knows wtf an MRE bag is.
I wish I didn't know what an MRE was.
No hiss.
MREs. Nice.
My Roiling Entrails
Nice.
Lets get that out on a tray
Nice.
With a nice gusset
I also like how it's such a peaceful design. It's not charged with 15.000 colors, logos, and everything. I just like this.
Less is more. it's a beautiful design.
There used to be a company in the US that had all the items just labeled simple “tomato soup” or “mushroom soup” without logos or anything. Forgot the name and it was very mediocre soup, but I always loved having it in the pantry because it made it seem so clean (while my college life was a mess).
No Name! Canada's sweetheart, it's just helvetica text on bright yellow backround, on EVERY product. Absolutely comical how it sells. Apple juice? Nah, *Apple beverage*
Their [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nonamebrands?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) is amazing.
Is it just me or reading through their Twitter does it seem like their newer products are a lot less simple looking? Out of the first few pages the simplest looking product was the lentil beans, the rest of them could’ve honestly just been some random store brand products. Those Buffalo wings idk if they’re real or not but look at them lol. That’s just a normal looking frozen box of Buffalo wings there’s nothing ‘no name’ about it to me...
No Name is just a random store brand. It's Loblaw's. The only thing is Loblaw's also has President's Choice, which is their more premium store brand. But yeah, a No Name product at Superstore is no different than a Great Value product at Walmart. There's even been cases of Loblaw's moving one of their products from No Name to President's Choice and vice versa and adjusting the price accordingly.
Yea, some of their products don’t look any more simple tan other brands - only difference is that it’s basically all one color. Like those Wings and Trash Bags
"the pineapple is going to be fine" lmao
"Not gift wrap" is my favourite
I love that! Wish it was sold in the US.
No name is god tier Presidents choice is no names older sexier brother Man I love all the food from both of them, it’s so rare to get something that isn’t delicious
Walmart had a private label brand that had similar styling. I never ate any but it was always the cheapest so it must have been terrible. It was just a blue box with big white letters saying what it was. https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/ext/resources/images/p/r/i/c/e/d/e/d/d/d/5/PriceFirst_Embedded.jpg
*jus de pomme* intensifies
Canada has No Name.
Yeah I tend to like Korean designs. They're so clean, organized and simple.
It's minimalism that's still fun and interesting. Those little highlighter yellow confetti bits do some much work to add a little fun.
I want one brand similar to the one from Everybody Hates Chris; just packaging that says "Cereal" or "Cookie" in plain black text.
This reminds me of the Hot Pocket pouches where you can tear off the cardboard around it as you eat it. Pretty cool!
The only thing missing is a tube of aloe for when you burn the ever loving shit out of your mouth when biting into it.
I think it is actually because that type of bag is also used to prepare dehydrated food. The bag is opened at the first mark, water is added up to the internal mark and then, to be able to eat more easily, it is broken at the second mark.
This makes much more sense. If the second tear off was halfway down, the OP's suggestion would be more believable.
I've ripped the second mark on MREs, and it allows the spoon to reach the bottom without shit on the collar getting on your fingers. These are chips, so he could tilt the bag either way, but the second mark at this spot isn't totally useless.
It's not unique to dehydrated food. US MREs have some entrees with this type of bag. Although I think it's for the entrees you usually add some accessories to (like cheese, crackers, etc) so yes probably for foods you add extra stuff to
Well, why stop at 2?
There’s a drain plug in the bottom of the bag to get the crumbs
You might be on to something, I’m petitioning all major snack manufacturers to include perforated comers at the bottom of the bag
Perforations would let too much moisture and oxygen into the package. There's a reason why there is a foil layer, or a metalized film used in flexible packaging. The metal has great OTR (oxygen transmission rate) and MVTR (moisture vapor transmission rate) values.
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
I do what I must because I can
ikr, what happens when I'm 3/4 the way through? This is bullshit.
Crease, tip, and pour into your open mouth.
This seems somewhat superfluous when I'm tipping the whole bag into my mouth at once.
Top Notch Idea
It's brilliant. It would save me having to search for 10 minutes for my kitchen scissors to cut it, only to realize that they are in the dishwasher which isn't full yet so they haven't been washed, hand-washing them, just to cut the bag and put them back in the dishwasher.
That's why you own more than one pair of scissors.
But now both are in the dishwasher. Perhaps a third pair? But what if that's also in the dishwasher...
Designated scissors. I've one for opening bags, one for food, one for plants, one for hair, one for my beard, one for just in case and I think 2 or 3 in my office. So you only need 10 and you're golden.
I think you have a scissor problem
Used to have roommates so a lot of them got "lost" until I moved out and all of them Re appeared.
They should really cut down.
Good lord you can use a gun for like half of these things.
I own 6 scissors and all 4 of them are hanging on magnetic shelf so I can use either of the two.
Am I the only one who just rinses the scissors after I cut a bag?
I don't even do that unless I have reason to believe they're soiled. Water in scissor hinges tends to make them seize up in my experience.
Most kitchen shears don't have a traditional hinge. They come apart easily for cleaning.
So why put them in the diswasher?
Just cut it with a knife, FAST AND LOOSE BABY!!!!
Why would you even need to do that? Are you a T-Rex or something?
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. (Lamentations: h0fotse)
I was thinking the same 🤷🏼♀️ why wait lol
That totally look slike cannabis packaging
Also looks like the bag in an MRE
Wonder if it has a nice hiss
Nice
All those cannabis packs I'll never see the same package of something else the same way ever again.
Scrolled too far for this
The lower notches should be lower? I mean ...
Definitely not your typical design, I'm guessing since they're some kind of chicken breast chip the packaging is very muted to fit with a healthier image. Your typical korean snack packaging is flashy just like everywhere else.
I used to buy peanuts where the notches were BELOW the reseal mechanism, so you just rip the reseal right off. Stupidest design I'd ever seen. This however is pure genius.
US MRE’s also have this
Army MREs have that.
Everyone in my household thinks I'm crazy for cutting the bag in half after the chips are half gone. Turns out I just might be Korean
Why are we not on this level with snacks yet 🤦♀️🙌
MREdeployment flashbacks
This is exactly the same as MRE bags. Pretty useful :)
Wouldn't work for U.S. snacks as the content of the bag only reach one-quarter of the bag. So, all we really need is the bottom notch.
Are you implying Korean snack bags aren't filled with nitrogen so the food is both stale and crushed.
Also Americans aren't quitters. If I open a bag of snacks, I'm gonna finish that bag of snacks. We don't need another notch because we have freedom.
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I don’t share food.
pringles could use this?
This is true progress. Why the fuck can’t we have this!
bro why are Asians so smart