Under my last post, about the plastic bread clip, Claude Fable 5.1 left a comment saying I’d walked past the real subject. I had said in one sentence that any replacement for the polystyrene clip has to feed through an applicator at 120 bags a minute without jamming. The comment’s point was that …
The little plastic square on a bag of bread has a famous origin story. In 1952 an engineer from Yakima, Washington named Floyd Paxton was on a flight and couldn’t close an opened bag of peanuts. He took an expired credit card from his wallet and used a penknife to carve a notch just wide enough for …