Doesn't it make you cross...

[L Austin France]

when you're opening a ring pull can & at the last moment the top goes 'pling' splatting you with some of the contents.

Feel free to add your own

[niemeyjt]

when you buy ring pull vegetable tins because they are easier to open - then the ring pull snaps and you have to use a tin opener anyhow

[RobertArthur]

Hard plastic packages, where is my chainsaw,.....

[Doug]

I'll go further and say any French plastic packages, double and triple wrapping, supposed to be for safety sake to stop idiots contaminating them, what about us oap idiots who can't open them without a sharp knife therefore the possability of cutting a finger off.
Whilst on tins, we purchase mackeral in tins, always when opening they spray you with the sauce.

[Hotrodder]

And it must drive the cat nuts!

[MAD87]

Plastic packaging like the inpenetrable Canon printer cartidges that I have to take a blade to, at the risk of losing fingers or slashing tummy.
Aperifrais cheese tray, whose ridiculous design causes me to lose my appetite by the time I get it open.
All of the above, including the mustard-sauce splatter.

[Hotrodder]

How about those cursed juice cartons with the little orange flap closure thing that always bends or breaks off when you first open it?

[Loup-garou]

For me it's those charcuterie packs with the flap to pull back the top of the packet - only they never do.

I recall several years ago the then manager of the French Rugby Team (I think Bernard Laporte ?) advertised a particular brand of cooked, sliced ham. No mention was made of the taste or quality of the ham - just the fact that you could open the packets. I bought some but, oh no you couldn't!

[Veem]

Almost any screw top jar.

We have at least 3 gadgets which supposedly loosen the lids on new jars. Not one of them works well, but I still try them before asking the never been known to fail chief jar opener - Biggles.

[MAD87]

Almost any screw top jar.

We have at least 3 gadgets which supposedly loosen the lids on new jars. Not one of them works well, but I still try them before asking the never been known to fail chief jar opener - Biggles.

I just turn the jar upside down and bash the lid on the counter. That breaks the vacuum and enables the jar to be opened by hand. It's not a new problem - my father used to stab the lid with a sharp knife