Go to your local Polish shop. They speak English, and you’ll get twice the meat for half the price – better quality too. And they wrap it up in paper which is a lot easier to recycle – even though we’re supposedly recycling soft plastic now I’m skeptical if it’s working as its supposed to.
Just buy a ham and boil it
Just get slices from deli counter, it’s cheaper and doesn’t smell like ass.
Don’t know why there’s so much hate in the comments, ham is packaged terribly lol. Especially when it’s all folded up into a big pile and you have to tear bits off to get any
I’d be more concerned with the smell of s**t that comes from opening the pack of ham. Still eat it though , bit of brown sauce on the side.
It’s an absolute Sham!
I responded to a post very similar to this a few months ago. Basically when I see this my microbiology brain kicks in. The way the ham is layered means you have to fully open the pack to get at the first slice, you can’t open the pack just a little to get it. By opening the whole pack you are exposing the entire pack, every single slice to air. This has a few benefits for the company. The entire pack is exposed to air, and therefore airborne microbes, the food is no longer sterile and is a ticking time bomb till the food is no longer fresh/goes off, if some of the ham was to be shielded from air then those slices wouldn’t go off as quickly. It also means that all the slices will dry up quicker. Now one of two things happens; you now only have a few days to eat the pack of ham before it goes bad….or the ham goes bad and you have to throw the pack out, there’s no salvaging maybe half the pack cause it all has been exposed to air. Whatever happens you likely have to make a purchase very soon in the future of ham AGAIN, this is going to happen multiple multiple times within your lifetime and will also happen for multiple people. In the end this minor inconvenience leads to more sales overall of the product helping to grow profit margins.
I just pull out the whole lot and flip it around
The Denny Fire and Smoke varieties are by far the worst. Most of the time you can’t separate the pieces of ham.
forget that, who farts in all those packets? is it an actual role, or roll
Every fukin time
Remove ham, place in Ziploc bag…Sorted!
Few people think they’re clever telling ya to open it from the other side but some of these packages are a fucking nightmare to open from anywhere other than the designated corner.
If it was packaged the other way the main thing you would see is just one slice of hame (top slice). This way you see all the lovely rows and it looks more appealing. That is why
its far worse when its all just thrown in in a big clump, impossible to take out without tearing it apart.
Buy ham in Polish shop it is packed as it should be.
Lads year better off buying a loin of bacon , boiling it , then savage sandwiches.
Flip it upside down
That because you buy shite ham.get to the butcher you’ll never have this problem again.
Buy different ham.
I get [this one](https://imgur.com/a/8awCFox) in Aldi and it’s packaged correctly and never have a problem with the seal tearing.
Regardless of product, don’t go pulling the corner and holding it to open the entire pack. Pull the corner to break the seal, then slide a finger along the side beneath the seal to easily and tear-free open the pack.
They have used these packets to test the intelligence of crows and octopuses and they have passed, having made lovely ham sambos.
This is a huge drama.
This post makes me feel seen for the first time. Subconsciously I guess I always thought I must have been doing something wrong as surely there is an easy way to get ham. But no, it was Big Ham screwing us all along
I am trying not to be dramatic or hyperbolic but this post has changed my life profoundly forever more
We can send rovers to mars, harness the power of the atom and communicate with nearly anyone in the world at the speed of light, yet a resealable package of cheap ham is fucking beyond us.
I live in Oakland, a quaint California suburb and have crippling anxiety that is slowly edging closer and closer toward insomnia.
I think that’s how I ended up in this subreddit but that’s not the point – the point is that we also have ham packaged this way and it *is* bull shit, Ireland. The moisture of the ham slices holds them together, you end up desperately trying to get an edge on the thing as you peel off little pieces until you end up with a fistful of ham bits. At least cheeses occasionally get a sheet of paper in between to facilitate separation, ham isn’t even trying. I’m assuming y’all have the paper between the cheese slices in Ireland, at least. I think between our two great nations, not America that shit is sinking fast I mean the city-state of Oakland, we can figure out this ham thing.
It’s ridiculous how badly packed ham is.
My one tip for this is to pull back the top enough to fully expose the ham so you can take your slices without having to touch every other slice, cover it back over, and then put the whole packet into a ziploc bag.
Oh, and on the topic of storing food, one random but great tip I have is that if you want to make mushrooms last well over twice as long, loosely surround them with kitchen roll. This also works with a bunch of fruits and veg, but the biggest help for me was mushrooms. Basically it’s like the perfect mix of stopping things getting damp from condensation when you open the fridge, as well as stopping them drying out over time.
I have posted this before so I know I can get easy karma
Oooh, I hate this so much. The package are shit, same for cheese.
On another note: why does crumbed ham exist? It’s just a soggy tasteless rind. If it was freshly sliced from a butcher I can understand the appeal, but in packaged ham I fail to see the appeal.
I’ve bought cheese like that, now I always check because flipping the stack over is unnecessary
I don’t know I was able to open it differently
I then proceeded to tape the pieces of ham to myself and run naked into Tesco’s and beat the shit out of a frozen fish.
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It’s just a Lidl inconvenience.
Presentation I’d say
Go to your local Polish shop. They speak English, and you’ll get twice the meat for half the price – better quality too. And they wrap it up in paper which is a lot easier to recycle – even though we’re supposedly recycling soft plastic now I’m skeptical if it’s working as its supposed to.
Just buy a ham and boil it
Just get slices from deli counter, it’s cheaper and doesn’t smell like ass.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/ptse4w/petition_to_put_the_peel_tab_on_the_correct_side/
Don’t know why there’s so much hate in the comments, ham is packaged terribly lol. Especially when it’s all folded up into a big pile and you have to tear bits off to get any
I’d be more concerned with the smell of s**t that comes from opening the pack of ham. Still eat it though , bit of brown sauce on the side.
It’s an absolute Sham!
I responded to a post very similar to this a few months ago. Basically when I see this my microbiology brain kicks in. The way the ham is layered means you have to fully open the pack to get at the first slice, you can’t open the pack just a little to get it. By opening the whole pack you are exposing the entire pack, every single slice to air. This has a few benefits for the company. The entire pack is exposed to air, and therefore airborne microbes, the food is no longer sterile and is a ticking time bomb till the food is no longer fresh/goes off, if some of the ham was to be shielded from air then those slices wouldn’t go off as quickly. It also means that all the slices will dry up quicker. Now one of two things happens; you now only have a few days to eat the pack of ham before it goes bad….or the ham goes bad and you have to throw the pack out, there’s no salvaging maybe half the pack cause it all has been exposed to air. Whatever happens you likely have to make a purchase very soon in the future of ham AGAIN, this is going to happen multiple multiple times within your lifetime and will also happen for multiple people. In the end this minor inconvenience leads to more sales overall of the product helping to grow profit margins.
I just pull out the whole lot and flip it around
The Denny Fire and Smoke varieties are by far the worst. Most of the time you can’t separate the pieces of ham.
forget that, who farts in all those packets? is it an actual role, or roll
Every fukin time
Remove ham, place in Ziploc bag…Sorted!
Few people think they’re clever telling ya to open it from the other side but some of these packages are a fucking nightmare to open from anywhere other than the designated corner.
If it was packaged the other way the main thing you would see is just one slice of hame (top slice). This way you see all the lovely rows and it looks more appealing. That is why
its far worse when its all just thrown in in a big clump, impossible to take out without tearing it apart.
Buy ham in Polish shop it is packed as it should be.
Lads year better off buying a loin of bacon , boiling it , then savage sandwiches.
Flip it upside down
That because you buy shite ham.get to the butcher you’ll never have this problem again.
Buy different ham.
I get [this one](https://imgur.com/a/8awCFox) in Aldi and it’s packaged correctly and never have a problem with the seal tearing.
Regardless of product, don’t go pulling the corner and holding it to open the entire pack. Pull the corner to break the seal, then slide a finger along the side beneath the seal to easily and tear-free open the pack.
They have used these packets to test the intelligence of crows and octopuses and they have passed, having made lovely ham sambos.
This is a huge drama.
This post makes me feel seen for the first time. Subconsciously I guess I always thought I must have been doing something wrong as surely there is an easy way to get ham. But no, it was Big Ham screwing us all along
I am trying not to be dramatic or hyperbolic but this post has changed my life profoundly forever more
We can send rovers to mars, harness the power of the atom and communicate with nearly anyone in the world at the speed of light, yet a resealable package of cheap ham is fucking beyond us.
I live in Oakland, a quaint California suburb and have crippling anxiety that is slowly edging closer and closer toward insomnia.
I think that’s how I ended up in this subreddit but that’s not the point – the point is that we also have ham packaged this way and it *is* bull shit, Ireland. The moisture of the ham slices holds them together, you end up desperately trying to get an edge on the thing as you peel off little pieces until you end up with a fistful of ham bits. At least cheeses occasionally get a sheet of paper in between to facilitate separation, ham isn’t even trying. I’m assuming y’all have the paper between the cheese slices in Ireland, at least. I think between our two great nations, not America that shit is sinking fast I mean the city-state of Oakland, we can figure out this ham thing.
It’s ridiculous how badly packed ham is.
My one tip for this is to pull back the top enough to fully expose the ham so you can take your slices without having to touch every other slice, cover it back over, and then put the whole packet into a ziploc bag.
Oh, and on the topic of storing food, one random but great tip I have is that if you want to make mushrooms last well over twice as long, loosely surround them with kitchen roll. This also works with a bunch of fruits and veg, but the biggest help for me was mushrooms. Basically it’s like the perfect mix of stopping things getting damp from condensation when you open the fridge, as well as stopping them drying out over time.
I have posted this before so I know I can get easy karma
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oyB4lzw6w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oyB4lzw6w)
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Oooh, I hate this so much. The package are shit, same for cheese.
On another note: why does crumbed ham exist? It’s just a soggy tasteless rind. If it was freshly sliced from a butcher I can understand the appeal, but in packaged ham I fail to see the appeal.
I’ve bought cheese like that, now I always check because flipping the stack over is unnecessary
I don’t know I was able to open it differently
I then proceeded to tape the pieces of ham to myself and run naked into Tesco’s and beat the shit out of a frozen fish.
Brannan’s
Today’s ham, today
Wonder who farts in the packets as well
I mean you did open it like a feckin eeejit