Sunday, January 30, 2005
Frozen Faux Pas
Just a quick complaint.
Certain makers of frozen "dinners" seem to forget that most of us open the food and then read how to prepare it. On the Lean Cuisine round pizzas (which are pretty good), you open the box, fold it down as a flap around the other side of the box, throw your pizza on top, and then......
Well, crud, I gotta read the directions. Unfortunately, by creating their box this way, you make the instructions darn near impossible to read without removing your pizza and flipping the box around until you find them.
Sure, it's a minor annoyance, but given that most people eat these things at work, and there is a decided lack of clean surfaces to set your food in at most workplaces (and that includes inside the microwave), is it so much to ask to put legible instructions on the sides of the box so you can read it without having to juggle the food and the box?
Certain makers of frozen "dinners" seem to forget that most of us open the food and then read how to prepare it. On the Lean Cuisine round pizzas (which are pretty good), you open the box, fold it down as a flap around the other side of the box, throw your pizza on top, and then......
Well, crud, I gotta read the directions. Unfortunately, by creating their box this way, you make the instructions darn near impossible to read without removing your pizza and flipping the box around until you find them.
Sure, it's a minor annoyance, but given that most people eat these things at work, and there is a decided lack of clean surfaces to set your food in at most workplaces (and that includes inside the microwave), is it so much to ask to put legible instructions on the sides of the box so you can read it without having to juggle the food and the box?
