Occasionally, the tubes for our squeezies prove to be tricksy little things to open. Due to the way the material tears when you open it, small hands have had an irksome time of trying to get into them.
Thanks to some hard work for our Jacqueline and her engineering friends, we're now working to improve this by coming up with opening solutions designed to get you to the puree pronto.
The little diagrams below depict one of the solutions that we've come up with already
For those not pictorially or technically minded, you used to have to tear up or down and sometimes, you couldn’t open the tube at all.
Jacqs et al have now added a channel mechanism (the squiggly bit, picture bottom left) and made the tearing mechanism more S shaped, ensuring you can get into the squeezie.
Obviously it was a lot more technical and complicated to get to this solution than that two line summary indicates.
But you get the drift.
May I just say, even though I am a mighty old 34 as of next week, I very much enjoy the kiddies squeezies. I also tried freezing them as you suggested in your email a few weeks ago and they are even better frozen. I used to snack on cholcolate imdway through my afternoons - now I snack on squeezies.
Nom nom nom.
Posted by: Helen | August 12, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Tso much for fixing this tiny problem! I love the squeezies too, please can we have grown-up flavours too?
Ps. my friends is very happy with the squeezies too as she's allergic to bananas. She can finally drink as many fruity smoothie-purees as she wants!
Posted by: Hannah | August 13, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Now you've tackled the rip problem, can you solve the puree squidging out as you rip it open problem ;-)
Posted by: Jimbo | August 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM