Eddie’s food annoyances: packaging that doesn’t work the way it should
Adeline loves food, lots of it and often, both at home and out. Usually, that goes well, but sometimes it doesn’t. In the series Sunday Roast, she shares her food-related observations. This week, she’s battling the packaging of the crackers.
Recently, Leksands Knäcke has entered my life. They’re crackers made with Swedish rye, shaped like a pizza slice. I don’t know whether it’s the shape or the rye, but I like them better than the average Wasa cracker. But the (pizza) point is that they come in an impossible package.
Swedish chalet
Oh, it’s definitely a charming package that evokes all kinds of Swedish associations and immediately makes you want to live in a Swedish chalet, but practical it is not. And that surprises me. If there’s one thing I think Sweden is good at, it’s combining practicality and aesthetics. But no, they’ve simply brought a (shitty) package into my life.
Typical Dutch person
At first, it seems fun, because one flap is folded artfully over the other. Until you have to open the whole thing and don’t even know where to start. I turned the packet with the cheeky red horse around a few times and then just started picking at one corner. Thanks to that one picking action, the entire package was in pieces within ten seconds, and my crackers were stale and chewy within two days.
“Look,” my boyfriend said a package later. “It literally says ‘open here.’” I immediately felt like such a typical Dutch person, starting to tear open a package right away. Until I began fiddling with the open-here corner and pulled up nothing but a half-baked little piece of paper. Underneath it were merely some tasty suggestions for toppings for the crunchy pizza slice.
And as much as I love smoked salmon with cream cheese and mozzarella with a slice of tomato and a basil leaf, that wasn’t what I was looking for. I simply wanted to find the proper way to open my crackers. How hard can it be?
Send help
As I write this, the package is lying next to me. And suddenly I see an artfully folded flap on the side that continues downward. Could this be the way to open my new favorite crackers and then close them again, so they’ll still be somewhat edible afterward?
Ten seconds later…
This also turns out not to be the right way. The flap was folded around the narrowest point of the pizza-slice cracker, and no matter how charmingly it unfolded there, the thicker rear end of the cracker simply wouldn’t fit through the opening.
Now you may be thinking: girl, don’t make such a fuss, buy a cracker box. But those things are standard square-shaped. Lecksands Knäcke, if you’re reading this: send help.
Image: Leksands crackers
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