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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Me too, but there's a way to make the twists easier to use.
Hold the open end of the bag and twist the loaf to make the twisted end
Fold the wire in half around the twisted part of the bag
Pinch the 2 ends of the wire with one hand and hold the open end of the bag with the other hand. The bread will hang below that like a Y.
Swing the loaf of bread in a loop around your hands 2 or 3 times like you're making a ring with your arms and swinging the bread into it or out of it. That twists the wire around the bag.
I can keep track of the clip for about 1/3 of the bread loaf... until the twist is long enough to tuck easily. Then, sometimes I'm even too put-upon to twist and I simply wrap and tuck.
We've learned quite a bit about these Occlupanids thanks to the HORG:
https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2
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.
Man, I have a new favorite animal, and it turns out it's a plastic clip
I use these
Yeah, but some of us don't want to go through a giant indoor hedge maze to get one.
https://www.printables.com/model/186350-chip-clip-pip-v2
are you describing a grocery store?
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.
Is that how you think of your "random small appliance" drawer? Aka. The junk drawer of the kitchen.
Take your fowl magic elsewhere vvitch.
Also id probably lose 4 of these before giving up outright.
Foul
This is clearly derived from chicken magic.
Chicken arise arise chicken arise.
No, they were invented by chickens.
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.
me too, so simple but a godsend
This is just a binder clip with more steps
I spin the bag and then clip it shut because spinning it gives the bag an easy part to clip.
Plus it makes the bread dizzy.
Is…is that not what everyone's doing‽
That is what everyone is supposed to do, and yet...
Spinning the bag is also fun. Sometimes I spin it more than necessary just to be silly
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.
Different types of bread. We have baguettes in paper
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!
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
It's called an occlupanid, thank you.
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.
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...!?
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.
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.
That looks like one of those gifs of people doing impressions of birds, but I don't think it is.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4s9GLWiUJM
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcScFB6z4XY
Pfifft I just leave the bag open
Bread needs to breathe
I believe that was chaotic evil on the chart.
Pfft, I just eat the entire loaf in one sitting.
Tried it and I still peed my pants, I think I'm going back to bread clips.
Fuck the wire thing too
The wire thing always works.
Fuck the cardboard clip, you get one use out of that fucking thing.
Clothespin gang
I just do a slip knot.
I push my fingers into my eyes.
Good idea
(just in case)
We used to break one wing of, wedge it onto the tip of our middle finger and flick them around the store. Mom would get so pissed!
Stores around us used to have them for produce bags.
Stores used to have this thin red tape for produce bags and it was almost impossible to remove the tape so you just mangled the bag
God, I hate that tape so much. I still see it sometimes.
They still use those here. I don't bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.
I like these way more than the twisty ties.
Me too, but there's a way to make the twists easier to use.
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.
I can keep track of the clip for about 1/3 of the bread loaf... until the twist is long enough to tuck easily. Then, sometimes I'm even too put-upon to twist and I simply wrap and tuck.
You generally don't want to twist plastic right next to your food
Never even seen a bread clip, I just use the twisty thing that comes with the bread.
Lots of the bread in thé US has that clip instead of the little wire thing
TIL
I wonder the makers of a lot of these clips are still linked with the john birch society
Get a bread bag, you heathens.
Bread comes in a bag already
I keep mine in a bin. Not the bin. But a bin.
Give me a twist tie, so I can violently spin the whole loaf a few rotations.