These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can’t use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I’ve seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
Punching the box is stress relieving.
This guy knows. I actually don’t know how else you would do it?
Bat Thumb!
Brute force
I prefer a palm strike to a closed fist punch
sometimes i miss punching these
Sometimes I missed while punching these and I hurt my hand.
I forget exactly how, but at my first job I did manage to rip one of these before, covering the entire floor in Pepsi syrup. One of the assistant managers walked in shortly after, looked at the mess on the floor I was attempting to clean up and said “it’s fine, I needed something to do anyways, go back to cash”.
Thank you but somehow not even close to the worst task I’ve had.
True, but there is a high corelation between this job task and a whole lotta bullshit.
FALCON PUNCH
The only way!
This was my second favorite part of my job at Cracker Barrel after tending the fire in the fireplace.
Fair, but f**k those toasters, right? They should not get that hot.
I never had that problem because I remembered my training and used appropriate safety measures before cleaning the toaster.
Good. I know someone who got burned because that location put them overhead near other supplies.
It was my dream to throw one of these off the theater roof and watch it go splat. We never did that, but we did do syrup shots.
Pouring out a glass directly from these was the best perk of the job.
Don’t drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.
One time I had one up on the top shelf and “pop” spraying syrup all over me. I swear I smelled like cherry coke for a week.
I have been enlisted in the marines, gotten recalled, worked as a contractor, finished my undergraduate degree and now looking at my PhD. This post just made me 16 again.
Hey, congratulations.
pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.
Hell yeah. I only changed 1/2 kegs, but there was a time I needed to carry a full one by hand. Never again.
Why was it always sticky?
I had a bigger problem digging out the syrup I needed from the haphazardly stacked boxes of other syrup
You gotta keep 'em organized!
For a few years, I kept them on a shelf at head height. That was a mistake that I let go on too long.
The place I worked at had a fraction of that space to work with and management just didn’t care. They left it up to the servers to let them know when we were low or out of a particular syrup and it was only me and one other server that bothered to do it.
Been out of the service industry for a while now, but I still have nightmares about being out of Dr. Pepper during a Friday dinner shift.
My situation was abnormal since I was running the procurement for food service at a zoo, so those photos were from my warehouse. It lets me joke about a level of organization basically no restaurant can have.
We’d have to run a BIB across the park when someone forgot to ask for it the night before, so not everything was paradise.
It’s been over 20 years since I swapped one of these out, and my hands are still sticky. Some things won’t come out with soap… only fire…
I am lying in bed trying to have a nap and you made my back hurt shame on you
Thanx, they tasted pretty good too. Specially when you don’t have enough for lunch.
You too broseph, practically a rite of passage
