Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Overpackaging

Step 1. Get scissors, open quartery packaging. The plastic bag that was sealed in olden times by folding the plastic edge and passing it on a lighted candle. Many fingers are coated by hot plastic in those days. 

Step 2: Carefully get one piece from the bunch.Make sure you get only one, so as not to be tempted to go over your daily calorie intake. 

 Step 3. Carefully pull the edge of the tertiary packaging, a green cellophane. Do not pull too hard or the soft candy will be deformed and lose its attractiveness, according to the obsessive-compulsives.

Step 4: Open the whole package. and be surprised by the spring-like recoil of the two other packaging inside.

Step 5: You suddenly think about how three packaging materials were force-folded. The materials' natural form is in sheets, not rolls. You are surprised that there is still one plastic before the product. So, two plastics, sandwiching a white paper. You wonder about the functional purpose of each three packaging material. 

Step 6: You simultaneously think about the man-hours wasted wrapping the small thing, cutting the cellophane and paper to size. and that the cost is also multiplied because of the extra manufacturing process. 


Step 7. You also say that that all these are probably a complete waste, given a product that will be consumed in one loading... youre about to ramble complaints, but then you notice how your hand, in all its dryness, look old.  





Step 8, You just decide to take a bite, it's all right.

Step 9, Then you appreciate the tastiness of yema made from pure carabao's milk. As Dora the Explorer's backpack says, "Delicioso!"

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