I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.
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I push my fingers into my eyes.
Good idea
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Fun fact: I used to work with a bread distributor as a stocker for a local grocery. You see, some parts of the grocery store are stocked by industry people, not by the stores staff. Notable examples that I've seen are bread and chips.
As far as I'm concerned, you can do whatever the hell you want with those clips. Use them, don't use them, I assure you that neither I, nor the bread industry gives any shits about it.
Those clips aren't made for you, and by the time you get the bread in your hands, their only remaining use is to keep the bread closed. All other functions have already been fulfilled.
Now, recently, in my area, they moved to paper based clips, which I can only imagine is driving the bread workers completely insane, because by comparison, they suck. To put it simply, there's two main pieces of information on the clip that I would care about while working as a stock person: the date on it, and the color. The date, is obviously the "best before" aka "sell by" date. Anything after that day would be considered stale and should be thrown out. The color actually indicated the day it was made. Usually we kept things on the shelf for about a week before it either sold, or the sell by date passed.... Not all the time, but often.
I don't remember what days were which colors, but 90% of the bread coming in on a particular day had the same color tag, say it's a Monday and Mondays color is red. So before I put anything up, I'd check for red tags on the shelf. If I saw any, I'd check their sell by date and if it's today (or before today), they would get tossed. Everything else would be sorted by color and shoved off to the side as I stocked each item. I would put a line of fresh product in the back and place the older stock in front, tags out. Rotating the stock as I went.
This made it really easy and quick to see what's old and needs to be placed front and center to give it the best chance of being picked up by someone who doesn't give a shit about the sell by date. Every day was a different color, so it was hard to get wrong. Almost everything with a particular color had the same sell by date on it.
In the years following my adventure in bread stocking, I had a very easy time finding a fresh loaf. I wouldn't need to waste my time checking every tag, I'd just shift the front row around to see what's at the back and what color the back row tags are. If they were the same color as the tags up front, I knew all of the bread on the shelf was from the same day, and it didn't matter what one I picked, they would all have the same date.
So while all of you are checking tags individually (or giving up and taking whatever), I knew I had the freshest loaf every time.
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I have to reread this way too many times to get an imagein my head
I thought that while typing it. It would be a 5 second YouTube video, but the text description is hard to follow.
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I have a little collection of these sitting on top of my refrigerator. No one knows it's there. It's my little secret.
You need to catalogue them, for science.
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Get a bread bag, you heathens.
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Get a bread bag, you heathens.
Bread comes in a bag already
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Good idea
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Fun fact: I used to work with a bread distributor as a stocker for a local grocery. You see, some parts of the grocery store are stocked by industry people, not by the stores staff. Notable examples that I've seen are bread and chips.
As far as I'm concerned, you can do whatever the hell you want with those clips. Use them, don't use them, I assure you that neither I, nor the bread industry gives any shits about it.
Those clips aren't made for you, and by the time you get the bread in your hands, their only remaining use is to keep the bread closed. All other functions have already been fulfilled.
Now, recently, in my area, they moved to paper based clips, which I can only imagine is driving the bread workers completely insane, because by comparison, they suck. To put it simply, there's two main pieces of information on the clip that I would care about while working as a stock person: the date on it, and the color. The date, is obviously the "best before" aka "sell by" date. Anything after that day would be considered stale and should be thrown out. The color actually indicated the day it was made. Usually we kept things on the shelf for about a week before it either sold, or the sell by date passed.... Not all the time, but often.
I don't remember what days were which colors, but 90% of the bread coming in on a particular day had the same color tag, say it's a Monday and Mondays color is red. So before I put anything up, I'd check for red tags on the shelf. If I saw any, I'd check their sell by date and if it's today (or before today), they would get tossed. Everything else would be sorted by color and shoved off to the side as I stocked each item. I would put a line of fresh product in the back and place the older stock in front, tags out. Rotating the stock as I went.
This made it really easy and quick to see what's old and needs to be placed front and center to give it the best chance of being picked up by someone who doesn't give a shit about the sell by date. Every day was a different color, so it was hard to get wrong. Almost everything with a particular color had the same sell by date on it.
In the years following my adventure in bread stocking, I had a very easy time finding a fresh loaf. I wouldn't need to waste my time checking every tag, I'd just shift the front row around to see what's at the back and what color the back row tags are. If they were the same color as the tags up front, I knew all of the bread on the shelf was from the same day, and it didn't matter what one I picked, they would all have the same date.
So while all of you are checking tags individually (or giving up and taking whatever), I knew I had the freshest loaf every time.
Managed a grocery store for years. 100% accurate except for beads the store defrosts (Canyon, Alvarado, etc).
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Not true, we know it's there now too.
I'll keep your secret. I can't say the same for the rest of the degenerates on this site. (This is sarcasm, in case some lemmings can't tell)
But you still don't know where "there" is.
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It's from a YT channel with the lady on the right talking some newage quakery about the grass speaking to her soul and such and the one on the left is her daughter or disciple or something that is usually acting like she's drugged out of her gourd, doing yoga stretches, and occasionally chiming in with a "that's true" to whatever the other is saying.
It's quite bizarre and kinda funny
This rabbit hole goes a LOT deeper than this if anyone is interested. It gets a lot less funny once you finish wubbys little mini doc on them. This is untreated mental illnesses, multiple.
#prayforjamie
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Bread comes in a bag already
I keep mine in a bin. Not the bin. But a bin.
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We've learned quite a bit about these Occlupanids thanks to the HORG:
Man, I have a new favorite animal, and it turns out it's a plastic clip
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I wonder the makers of a lot of these clips are still linked with the john birch society
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But you still don't know where "there" is.
Yes I do, it's right there.
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Managed a grocery store for years. 100% accurate except for beads the store defrosts (Canyon, Alvarado, etc).
Oh yeah. I'm only really taking about the commercial bakery stuff. Anything store-brand or made "in store" is all bespoke and unique to whatever store it is.
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Take your fowl magic elsewhere vvitch.
Also id probably lose 4 of these before giving up outright.
Also id probably lose 4 of these before giving up outright.
You buy them in bags of 20ish, and keep buying them until you have established an equilibrium in your home where there always are a few around to put on new bags. I'm not joking.
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It says IKEA on it.
Ohhh. I sincerely thought you were referring to your own personal small appliance drawer, hah. Glad I revisited this comment.
