Archive for May, 2007

Are they having a laugh behind our backs? Are they just all a sick, twisted collective hell bent on ruining our lives just because they can?

I only ask this because I bought a Muller Corner yoghurt thing the other day – you know – the ones which have two compartments – one big one for the yoghurt and one smaller one for the fruit or the chocolate bits or whatever. I’d not eaten one in a while so I was actually looking forward to it. It was an Orange and Chocolate one, though I can’t remember the exact name. All that remained was to peel back the plastic foil lid and I’d be in.

Those who are familiar with yoghurt packaging will be aware that there is usually a slightly larger ‘tab’ in one corner which you simply pull up and peel back along with the rest of the lid. Simple yet effective method – in theory.

In this case however, the tab was stuck to the yoghurt pot. Curses. Ok, I thought to myself, I can handle this, I’m a mature adult. Sorta. So with some effort, I managed to prise the tab up and whilst removing the lid, I started to drool at the thought of being tasting the delicious snack that awaited me inside the pot.

Only, the lid ripped straight down the middle. &*%$!!!! It’s at this point I ask myself the question: Am I just a moron who has suddenly lost the ability to open fruit yoghurt pots? or have the manufacturers done this deliberately in some sort of cost cutting scheme and are at this very moment, laughing as a collective.

They probably go into work every morning and at 9.00am sharp, they all laugh as a collective for a minute before making more useless yoghurt pots.

Seriously though, I never used to have this problem.

Also, why do they have to use stupidly long and unnecessarily complicated model numbers and then laugh at us when we try to remember them?! Not on yoghurt pots, on LCD TV’s. Keep up!