I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope.

Dont lick your finger, the veggies get sprayed with water. Wet your finger with the clean water and the bag will open for you. Just like everything else in this life: Its better when its wetter.

Except paper bags and toilet paper before you wipe
- And socks.
You can also just breath onto the bag too. Just enough to get the condensation to lightly form and it does the same thing. Although I also just grab a drop of water that’s on the produce container where it sprays sometimes.

I'd proudly and, like a snob, tell you that I've ascended beyond plastic bags by using reusable nets.

But I also keep forgetting the nets at home, so I use the plastic bags and promise myself not to forget. Only to forget again. FUCK.

Actually we mostly use paper bags in our stores now, because they're in a well integrated system where they can get recycled into something else.
That said, nets are a good idea which works every time you bring them. Which isn't often.
You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it's too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?
You're paying for the weight of that net at the register though, not much at once but it adds up.
- Interesting, our supermarket has a provision for that, but I also weigh just the stuff without net, before packing it. So at least that's working okay for me

FYI, reusable produce bags exist!

I just don't put them in bags until checkout... Not sure if the cashier hates me or not.
- I try to avoid plastic waste, but am too absent minded to remember my reusables. So I do the same thing the only time the bagger gets told to keep things separate is if there are potatoes and onions. Those things need to be kept separate!

I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).

The Mr. Miyagi method!
- Exactly.
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what if I have three hands?
- Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.

Theres no reason to put most produce in bags. I don't know why people are obsessed with plastic. People even put bananas in bags... Theyre already bagged!

NO BANNNNNANNNNNA!
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world
I just don't want anything touching the cart surface, I doubt they sanitize those regularly
- There is no part of the growing, harvesting, cargo packing, transportation, or store stocking process that's making your produce too pristine to be soiled by a cart. A ride in a bag a couple miles to your house isn't going to sanitize it either.
- You realize you're supposed to wash your produce when you get home, right? There's still pesticides on there.
I use one bag but have my veggies out and separate. And unless it's potatoes and/or any alum family, I tell them to just toss them all in the same bag.

The struggle is real.

...the easiest way to open these IME, is to lightly lick your thumb and the neighboring finger. This makes the respective sides of the bag stick to them for easier opening.

The produce is all wet. Just touch the thing youre going to buy to get your fingers wet - not lick it you foul fuck
- You are a jerk.
  Also, I don't touch produce. When I deal with these plastic bags, I am using them to line my thermal bag, to carry home my hot meal of fried or glazed chicken. This is because the carrying pouch the store puts the chicken into has air holes - which means that my thermal bag would get dirty.
- I'm guessing your supermarket uses those fog thingies? They're not used everywhere, i.e. not all produce is wet.
When masks were mandatory, I couldn't do this and tried for over a minute to open the damn bag.
I found that if I start with the cold vegetable, I could use their moisture to wet my fingers.
Finger licking good
I just red that as in lick your neighbors finger and thought yeah that sounds about right ;-)

You guys put all the fresh stuff in plastic bags? Why not just straight into the shopping bag?

Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it's either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.
- Because it costs by the pound and you want to make it easy to weigh all vegetables together

Hold the middle of the side that is supposed to open between your pointer finger and thumb and slide them in opposite directions. It almost always works for me :D

That's easy. Just flip it, then flip it over again, just like a USB plug.

Instructions unclear, penis caught in ceiling fan again...

I aggressively rub the side that's meant to open between my fingers and typically that opens it a bit, and from there you just try to separate that while doing the bag open wave.

I would like to see more comments that start with the words "I aggressively rub".
- Be the change you want to see in the world

But I've used that to scratch between my cheeks...
- If ya clean the trench proper, ya aint gotta dig in the mud later.
Ew, no thanks. Better to exhale on your fingers the same way as when you want to fog up a pair of glasses. Then you're not putting the same fingers in your mouth that we're just on whatever surfaces you touched since you last washed your hands.
That or, if they spray the produce with a mist of water, touch the moist produce then open the bag

Bring your own reusable bag.

Same with trying to peel double-sided tape

This is an easy answer, stick down one side first then use a finger nail to pick at a corner. But most of my experience with this is the clear 3m tape on cheap heat sinks, so most of the time it already stuck down on the heat sink.

The plastic bag is folded on the sides. I have much more success if I start by pulling there, than attacking the opening directly. Hard to explain but you'll figure it out.

I just find the non sealed end and make the pspspspsp (cat call) finger motion and it opens up well enough when I have to use the bags
- I love that you described it as the "cat call finger motion". I knew what you meant immediately
- That requires friction between fingers and bag to be higher than friction between the two sides of the plastic bag, and for me it never is

Gently blowing on the opening sometimes works

I have zero issue opening these bags but for some reason my mom and siblings really struggle.

Woah look at hr.reasonablymoisthands over here!

Just stretch the bag carefully a bit on opening. Works every time! Simple.

I was at my local walmart today...

just remember which side is the opening, or you'll accidentally tear the wrong side

Hey, I am a janitor that struggles to open trash bags if I’m not wearing clean gloves. They refuse to open with bare hands or if my gloves are greasy.