Okay, that’s pretty helpless.
Posted by gigantichound on 23 Apr 2008 at 02:55 pm | Tagged as: Food and Wine, Home and Garden
I first saw Beyond the Orchard apple slices in the local Sobeys in early January, but didn’t see it again until mid-March. They’ve been in stock steadily since then, so presumably people are buying them. This package—a plastic box containing five individual sealed wrappers—contains just 285 grams of sliced apples, equivalent to about one and a half regular-sized apples. Each package contains seven very small apple wedges that together represent about one quarter of an apple.
Almost more plastic there than apple. Beyond the Orchard and into the factory.
And yeah, WTF? Can’t people just buy small apples? Or, you know, cut one up themselves if they truly require apples in 57-gram increments?
Looking at this again, isn’t it easier to wash an apple and cut it up than to deal with all that packaging?
Well, except that if you’re sending it to school as a snack or taking it with you you’ll need to cut it up and then package it yourself in something, which will then have to be undone. Of course this could be a reusable container with an easy-to-remove lid…
I like the “ready to eat” comment on the packaging. Aren’t apples supposed to be, um, *already* ready to eat?
I was about to say — never mind the cutting up, can’t you just BITE IT the way nature intended?
When I was little I hated eating whole apples because they were too big, and too hard, for my mouth. Had to be cut up… or had to be another, easier-to-get-my-mouth-around fruit… not that my mother, who banned plastic wrap from our kitchen for my entire childhood because of Dow’s hand in creating Agent Orange, would ever have bought me pre-packaged apple slices.
Gah.
That is all.