Jeff St Real says:

I thought you were going to say they started putting those obnoxious little stickers on every grape. Have you ever tried peeling the sticker off a plum without tearing up the plum? In high school, I worked in a supermarket as a cashier, and we had to learn every type of produce the store carried. If you failed the “produce test”, you got fired. We didn’t need no stinkin’ stickers!

Gnomic says:

I guess Moms don’t have time to put the grapes in baggies like they used to. Of course, this generates as much (probably more) waste, but its what we are used to. But this is how better ideas get started. It may be that this generates less waste and makes the fruit last longer. Sure it looks silly, but check out the sales on Lunchables and TV Dinners. I wouldn’t be so quick to condemn a product that obvoiously fulfills a need.

Sorry for all the typos. Can’t find my glasses.

tommy says:

waste? WASTE? are you kidding? This is one of those Gooder Services I think our Fearless Leader was talking about so long ago… Them’s American JOBS they’s providing, having invented a new way to package something which is so unmanageable in its native form. And now that they have a barcode we don’t need to look up the PLU code on that chart over the self-checkout at Krogers…

But really: where are they packaged, and where are they grown, and what are they sprayed with in order to extend their shelf life? How much more do they cost per pound and is that value equivalent to the ‘Mom time’ saved throwing lunches together…

And have you read the ingredients on a Lunchables package? Should make a lab rat’s shelf life about 10 years… eeew.

Gnomic says:

I didn’t say I’d eat any of this crap! I suspect that the grapes are grown and packaged in Mexico or some other southern hemisphere country.

And I doubt in if the ingrediants extend the rat’s shelf life. More like the rat’s corpse shelf life. Which brings us full circle to the Lunchable ingrediants…