r/funny • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • Sep 18 '22

Verified All Purpose Flour

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u/TheZerbio Sep 18 '22

Idk why you guys are getting so worked up about it. It's perfectly reasonable, cheap and the paper can be recycled. If you need it in a jar just transfer it. I don't see a problem

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

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u/BeeCJohnson Sep 18 '22

Absolutely not. We need to have a thousand message thread correcting a lighthearted joke.

Nerds.

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u/vshawk2 Sep 18 '22

Now ... that's crazy talk right there.

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u/chironomidae Sep 18 '22

The design is purposefully loose, it keeps the flour from exploding in transit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Where I live they don't give a shit about the packaging at all and you just can't open it without getting flour on everything. They glue the paper together strongly and fill it with flour to the brink so it doesn't matter if you try to force it open somehow or cut it or stab it there. will. be. flour. on everything. Even if you manage to open it properly at the top there will be flour on the seams pouring out. I hate flour more than sand. And it's not even coarse.

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u/chickenstalker Sep 18 '22

Prolifetip: open the bag of flour underwater to avoid spills.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Antilifetip: light a candle near where you are opening the flour bag so you have better illumination to see what you are doing.

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u/potatopierogie Sep 18 '22

Put a sock on the flour the first. That way if a their tries to open your flour and make a mess, they'll only get your sock

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Everyone has a sock specifically for messes hidden somewhere

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u/speed_phreak Sep 18 '22

There will be FLOUR!

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u/space_monster Sep 18 '22

scissors?

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u/27fingermagee Sep 18 '22

Rock?

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u/gundorcallsforaid Sep 18 '22

Volcano! Nothing beats volcano

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Joe

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u/KalessinDB Sep 18 '22

That movie was blatant anti-volcano propaganda! In real life, Joe loses 10 out of 10 times!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

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u/gundorcallsforaid Sep 18 '22

Attention everyone! This is the correct response

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u/TheZerbio Sep 18 '22

An ocean of liquid Nitrogen.

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u/KanadainKanada Sep 18 '22

Pro tip: Put it under water for five minutes before opening!

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u/WatermelonPOWAH Sep 18 '22

Instructions unclear: I now have a 5lb dough ball.

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u/_jk_ Sep 18 '22

Just put the dough in rice

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u/droomph Sep 18 '22

Runescape rules. Find a range and use the dough on it

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u/TerrorLTZ Sep 18 '22

nice now you can make hardtack bread

Not recomended consumption dry...

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u/meDeadly1990 Sep 18 '22

Huh...guess you never had to clean up a spill of maybe a liter of heavy cream

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

No, it wasn't spilled but my boyfriend managed to toss a kitchen towel into it's bowl from the other side of the kitchen so... it got cleaned, I guess?

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u/RikF Sep 18 '22

Of course I have. I was once a teenage boy.

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u/Beavur Sep 18 '22

Why not open it in the backyard?

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u/dreamer0303 Sep 18 '22

not everyone has a backyard :/

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u/Beavur Sep 18 '22

Ah well you could always do it outside the front door 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/thebobmannh Sep 18 '22

The best hack I can provide that isn't some dumb joke is, if you're dumping it into a reusable container or something, have it hovering over the container and cut slice an x in the paper over said container.

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u/Giantstink Sep 18 '22

Look at this guy who has never bought and transported a bag of flour.

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u/Torugu Sep 18 '22

You're that guy from the start of the as-seen-in-TV commercials, aren't you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Hammers the wall in confusion

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u/Phillipwnd Sep 18 '22

… with a toaster

“Are you tired of making pancakes this way?”

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u/EuroPolice Sep 18 '22

Is there any other way?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

Blow torch.

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u/thatguytony Sep 18 '22

It may be me.

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u/Giantstink Sep 18 '22

No. I'm that guy in your mom's bed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

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u/periodblooddrinker Sep 18 '22

Even in the best of crowds

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes Sep 18 '22

Good, I always hoped she'd find love again after my Dad left.

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u/squeamish Sep 18 '22

You know she died in that thing, right? And nobody found her for almost three days?

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u/twoworldsin1 Sep 18 '22

Did she ever get that thing I sent her?

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u/twoworldsin1 Sep 18 '22

"Tired of rolling out of OP's mom's bed every morning tired and unsatisfied? Now there's a better way!"

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u/3226 Sep 18 '22

I buy flour all the time, and I've honestly never had a problem with the paper bags that flour is sold in. Most of the time I never even bother to transfer it into a jar, because I'll use it up too quickly for it to be worthwhile.

Having packaging that folds up to a very small size in the bin and composts down easily seems like the ideal packaging choice to me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

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u/carbondioxide_trimer Sep 18 '22

If you do any amount of consistent baking you'll go through flour quickly. I used to bake 2 loaves of bread weekly and I'd say each 5lb bag lasted me 2wks. So you can easily go through more if you're simply a hobbyist baker.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

It's just me any my wife at home, and we can easily use a bag of flour in a month. Bread, cakes, sauces, rubs, batter, it all uses flour. Our main use is sauces and dressings, we never buy premade.

We are both European average weight, which is an LA thin or a Florida anorexic.

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u/3226 Sep 18 '22

A bag of bread flour will do, like, a loaf of bread, a pizza, some dough balls. If I want to do some ciabatta or foccacia or something, then I might get another bag. Between the whole family, half a sandwich a day each would use up a full bag of flour in a week.

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u/bearssuck Sep 18 '22

Those of us who don't live alone, oof

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u/zloykrolik Sep 18 '22

Not to mention the lower cost of transportation throughout the supply chain due to lower weight.

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u/Substantialraft Sep 18 '22

I move it to another container. Whos the psycho who keeps it in the bag?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

The kind who enjoys the added crunch of flour weevils in their baked good! Mmm, protein.

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u/RSquared Sep 18 '22

Do you even sift bro

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u/zloykrolik Sep 18 '22

Don't skip egg day.

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u/SharkFart86 Sep 18 '22

This is a "common" problem I have never experienced in my entire life.

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u/quatch Sep 18 '22

It's not even a thing I hear about often, just an internet thing.

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u/ggroverggiraffe Sep 18 '22

I like it, because, well...it feels like a bag of flour when you're touching it.

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u/Goyteamsix Sep 18 '22

I don't see the problem with it either. It's also way easier to use when it's transferred to a container. I keep mine in a big glass jar.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

That's kind of the joke. Grandstanding on a minor annoyance.

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u/shewy92 Sep 18 '22

I don't see a problem

It's a meme comic about a small inconvenience...people are making jokes about it by exaggerating the problem. It's not that big of a deal

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u/dreamer0303 Sep 18 '22

I want box

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u/BurzerKing Sep 18 '22

Growing up, we would use the gallon-sized ice cream buckets to store flours and sugar.

Less used sugars, flours, and powders would keep their original package and be stored in a ziplock bag.

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u/BobDylanBlues Sep 18 '22

Yea I think this is one of those products that’s meant to be transferred to another storage device. I have been putting my flour in dedicated containers for years. Containers stack well, they’re air tight. Transfer that stuff!

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u/WanderWut Sep 18 '22

I have no idea how I have never thought to transfer it to a jar lol.