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).
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.
I wonder the makers of a lot of these clips are still linked with the john birch society
It’s called an occlupanid, thank you.
You generally don’t want to twist plastic right next to your food
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
Thank you for bringing me a small slice of the Old Internet, 1.0. I miss it, and its very specific websites, tremendously and frequently.
Kids, check it out. This should have been your inheritance.
Edit: spelling.
That’s a fun rabbit hole.
I use these
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.
Foul
This is clearly derived from chicken magic.
Chicken arise arise chicken arise.
No, they were invented by chickens.
Yeah, but some of us don’t want to go through a giant indoor hedge maze to get one.
Is that how you think of your “random small appliance” drawer? Aka. The junk drawer of the kitchen.
are you describing a grocery store?
It says IKEA on it.
me too, so simple but a godsend
This is just a binder clip with more steps
Get a bread bag, you heathens.
Bread comes in a bag already
I keep mine in a bin. Not the bin. But a bin.
I spin the bag and then clip it shut because spinning it gives the bag an easy part to clip.
Spinning the bag is also fun. Sometimes I spin it more than necessary just to be silly
Plus it makes the bread dizzy.
Is…is that not what everyone’s doing‽
That is what everyone is supposed to do, and yet…
I have a little collection of these sitting on top of my refrigerator. No one knows it’s there. It’s my little secret.
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.
Yes I do, it’s right there.
You need to catalogue them, for science.
Bread sold in plastic bags is so strange for me 😆 we have them in paper bags, so that the crust stays crusty 😇
Here in the good ol’ US of A most of the bread found in supermarkets is packed with a bunch of conditioners/preservatives such that it was never crusty to begin with, prioritizing shelf stability over quality.
Actual dedicated bakeries will typically put their bread in a better storage medium, but most people are getting cheap mass produced bread for lunches and the like from their regular grocery store I imagine.
When I was a kid, we used to keep the plastic bags from bread once we ate the loaf and in winter we’d line our boots with them. To keep our socks dry.
🫢we just use waterproof shoes
All hail leather the best waterproofing!
Before anyone brings up cruelty of animal products don’t worry, I would go full Texas chainsaw massacre for the sake of my own amusement. Y’all can’t get through my red and brown morality!
Different types of bread. We have baguettes in paper
Here, pre-sliced bread (sold on store shelves) comes in plastic bags, normal bread (sold in bakeries and in-store bakeries) comes in paper bags
I just do a slip knot.
I push my fingers into my eyes.
Good idea
Fuck the wire thing too
The wire thing always works.
Fuck the cardboard clip, you get one use out of that fucking thing.
Am I the only one who spins it then sleeves it inside out back over the bread?
Seems overkill
You monster
Not enough plastic for that until further along in the loaf…!?
Tried it and I still peed my pants, I think I’m going back to bread clips.
Not only do I use these, I save and reuse them for other things.
Mine always break by the time I get through a bag of bread at best, what’s the proper way to reapply them without stressing the plastic?
They’ll break eventually but it’s nice to get a couple more uses out of them for things like bags of frozen veggies and stuff.
Respect for a fellow re-user. 🤜
It always seems like not many people pay attention to that part of the motto.
Like what? What are they useful for?
Only thing I know is to fix cheap flip flops where the plastic strap breaks through the foam sole. And its not a permanent solution.
