12 Jan Resealable? Seriously?

I don’t know who created the resealable packaging for cookies but you’ve just got to love it. Right?  Who hasn’t had their share of stale cookies and were totally let down by the lackluster taste after having spent hours fighting off the urge to indulge?  Surely I am not the only one!

Problem solved.  With this packaging you never need experience these emotional letdowns again.  Forever your cookies will be as fresh as the day they were packaged.  No longer do you have to gobble them up in record time to savour the freshness.  As if that would be the reason!  But now you can eat just one a day for as long as the package lasts – as if!  Don’t know about you, but can’t imagine such a thing!

However, I will concede that resealable packaging on cookies work.  After all, who is going to sit down and scarf the whole bag in one sitting?  What about potato chips?  Remember the commercial with Mark Messier and Lays potato chips?  Bet you can’t eat just one.  Ha! I don’t know anyone who could eat just one chip.  Could never figure out my husband who would put a few in a bowl and consider himself finished when they were gone.  Me?  I could hear them calling my name and luring me into the kitchen to snatch another handful. And another. And another. Then POOF… gone.

I get that.  Some can handle resealing their potato chips…and other food stuff.

But this,  I don’t get.  Why, oh why, would you need to reseal a chocolate bar? I bought a Caramilk chocolate bar yesterday and Mr. Cadbury, what are you trying to tell me?  I never noticed till I went to open it that it had a resealable wrapper.  Seriously?  It was an ordinary sized chocolate bar.  Are you saying that people don’t eat this – or rather shouldn’t – eat this in its entirety in one sitting? What are you implying?  That anyone who eats it all at once is a lil’ piggy?  Good job it tastes so darn good… that would almost be enough to make me go buy something else.

Like this maybe….. then I would need a resealable package.  Can you see one here?

Mr. Cadbury, my bar was gone long before I had made the 7 minute trip back home.  So the question is this. Did I really savour all there was to savour?  Was I missing out by devouring it so quickly?  Should I have drawn out every last bit of  the sensory experience?  Is that what you are trying to tell me?

And if so, what else in my life am I treating the same.  So instead of saying yummmmm, I’ll say hmmmmm…definitely food for thought.