I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.

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• m_f@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We’ve learned quite a bit about these Occlupanids thanks to the HORG:

  www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2

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  • bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Man, I have a new favorite animal, and it turns out it’s a plastic clip

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  • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you for bringing me a small slice of the Old Internet, 1.0. I miss it, and it’s very specific websites, tremendously and frequently.

    Kids, check it out. This should have been your inheritance.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s a fun rabbit hole.

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I use these Image

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  • EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, but some of us don’t want to go through a giant indoor hedge maze to get one.

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      www.printables.com/model/186350-chip-clip-pip-v2

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    • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is that how you think of your “random small appliance” drawer? Aka. The junk drawer of the kitchen.

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    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      are you describing a grocery store?

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Take your fowl magic elsewhere vvitch.

    Also id probably lose 4 of these before giving up outright.

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    • backgroundcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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.

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Foul

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  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    me too, so simple but a godsend

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  • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is just a binder clip with more steps

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • fishy@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Managed a grocery store for years. 100% accurate except for beads the store defrosts (Canyon, Alvarado, etc).

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I spin the bag and then clip it shut because spinning it gives the bag an easy part to clip.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Plus it makes the bread dizzy.

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  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Spinning the bag is also fun. Sometimes I spin it more than necessary just to be silly

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  • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is…is that not what everyone’s doing‽

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is what everyone is supposed to do, and yet…

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• gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s called an occlupanid, thank you.

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bread sold in plastic bags is so strange for me 😆 we have them in paper bags, so that the crust stays crusty 😇

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Different types of bread. We have baguettes in paper

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      🫢we just use waterproof shoes

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  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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• RacerX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have a little collection of these sitting on top of my refrigerator. No one knows it’s there. It’s my little secret.

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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)

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But you still don’t know where “there” is.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You need to catalogue them, for science.

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder the makers of a lot of these clips are still linked with the john birch society

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Am I the only one who spins it then sleeves it inside out back over the bread?

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems overkill

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You monster

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  • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not enough plastic for that until further along in the loaf…!?

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• cattywampas@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not only do I use these, I save and reuse them for other things.

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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?

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    • cattywampas@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like what? What are they useful for?

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    • Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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• EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That looks like one of those gifs of people doing impressions of birds, but I don’t think it is.

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You generally don’t want to twist plastic right next to your food

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• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pfifft I just leave the bag open

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  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bread needs to breathe

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  • AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I believe that was chaotic evil on the chart.

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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pfft, I just eat the entire loaf in one sitting.

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tried it and I still peed my pants, I think I’m going back to bread clips.

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• axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck the wire thing too

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The wire thing always works.

    Fuck the cardboard clip, you get one use out of that fucking thing.

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• monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I just do a slip knot.

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I push my fingers into my eyes.

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    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good idea

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get a bread bag, you heathens.

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  • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bread comes in a bag already

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I keep mine in a bin. Not the bin. But a bin.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Clothespin gang

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• tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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    • Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      God, I hate that tape so much. I still see it sometimes.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They still use those here. I don’t bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like these way more than the twisty ties.

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  • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have to reread this way too many times to get an imagein my head

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• callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Never even seen a bread clip, I just use the twisty thing that comes with the bread.

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Give me a twist tie, so I can violently spin the whole loaf a few rotations.

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