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Monday, November 30, 2009

The best sandwich bags. Ever.

Much to my own mother's horror, I am a quick draw at tossing any food that in any way looks like it possibly maybe could have a single spore of mold upon it.  My mom is much more old school and rolls her eyes at my unnecessary and wasteful picky pitching, reminding me of how she'd tear the green spots off of a slice of bread or cut the funk bits off an orange before she'd ever dream of trashing it. All these years later, she doesn't want to hear a damn thing about how much mold is inside the food that you can't see or just how disgusted that makes me, now as a mother myself.

I'm not going to change her, I know. And honestly, even in this economy, I am probably not going to stop pitching the vegetables I intended to eat but didn't get to in time or the bagels that look even remotely iffy.

Instead of just turning up my nose -- both at the mold invasion and my frugal mother -- I can laugh at us both. These funny sandwich bags might just be the way to up the humor about the fungus among all of us.

Billed as an anti-theft device for lunches, each clear plastic bag has green splotches that make your fresh sandwich look spoiled and that makers are sure will keep greedy people from stealing your lunch.

When I saw these, my first thought was how funny it would be to wrap all kinds of food at my mother's house in these and then see how much of it she'd eat anyway.  But my next thought was what a kick my son would get out of them, especially since he is 4-years-old and his sense of humor has a very high gross quotient.

I am pretty sure no one is stealing his soy butter and jelly sandwiches in preschool, and I am even more sure my mom would roll her eyes (again) if I planted these bags in her kitchen. Regardless, I think they are hilarious. And who doesn't need a chuckle after smelling bad milk and cursing over wasted bagels?


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  • Brittany G's Avatar
    Posted by Brittany G Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:41pm PDT

    haha

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  • Kristina's Avatar
    Posted by Kristina Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:14am PDT

    i'm sure that would work. I'll have to get some. Maybe now my lunch won't "go missing" any more.

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  • JoKTM's Avatar
    Posted by JoKTM Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:45am PDT

    I think the bags are a cool idea. Some people seriously have problems at work with their food missing out of the fridge. You would just have to have a good cover story on how you can eat a moldy sandwich.

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  • tina's Avatar
    Posted by tina Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:45am PDT

    Odd, ppl create anything these days. I have to say I agree more with your mom, just b/c some of some food has mold on it doesn't make it bad... if I have a bell pepper and one spot is fuzzy, I cut it off and I make sure there isn't slime or anything on the rest of the pepper and that it smells normal and then continue on as usual. If there is slime though, that gets tossed. Same goes for cheese slices. The top two slices have miold but the bottom 4 are fine, mold free =)

    It's a matter of opinion, I would never serve food that is slightly questionable to anyone, but I'm not gonna waste my own money for me... *shrugs*

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  • MrsKlingonPasadena's Avatar
    Posted by MrsKlingonPasadena Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:18am PDT

    I have to keep my husband from throwing things away that are still good. I will cut the mold spots off cheese and eat it. I don't serve it to guest, by Mrs_Klingon will be eating it.

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  • mommaofsun's Avatar
    Posted by mommaofsun Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:07pm PDT

    OMG.........if anything in my fridge is one day past the expiration date, it gets tossed. And if ANYTHING has mold, it most certainly get tossed. I'm a little prissy about things like this. If I won't eat it, I am certainly not going to expect anyone else to.

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