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The oyster awards: CR's hard-to-open-packaging hall of shame welcomes new inductees.
We thought we had seen it all last year: packaging so frustrating to open that it elicited expletive-filled outbursts from usually mild-mannered CONSUMER REPORTS testers. But in our second contest named after the tight-jawed mollusk, we've found worthy successors to the 2006 winners.
A sealed, hard-plastic clamshell housing a powered toothbrush takes top honors because of the tools, strength, time, and finesse required to extract the contents. Packaging for popular dolls comes in a close second because of the 50 twists, ties, and tapes that shackle the dolls to their plastic and cardboard prison.
Honorable mentions include a box of macaroni and cheese ...
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