Everybody has the same reaction to opening a large bag and finding it a third full. It feels like a swindle, it has its own name online, and there are…
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Everybody has picked one out of the middle of a pizza, looked at it for a second, and thrown it away. Children use them as dolls' house furniture, which…
The Egg Carton Was Invented to Settle an Argument Between a Hotel Owner and a Farmer About Breakages
The egg carton is one of the most effective pieces of packaging ever designed, and almost nobody looks at it. It protects something with no structural redundancy whatsoever, costs a…
The little plastic tab holding your bread bag shut is one of the most quietly engineered objects in a supermarket, and the colour of it is not decoration.
In a…
The cereal aisle is the most carefully arranged few metres in a supermarket, and the arrangement is not about you.
Children's cereals sit low, roughly at the eye level of…
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The paper drinking straw is not a modern environmental compromise. It is the original manufactured straw, patented in 1888, and the thing it replaced was an actual straw…