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In reply to the discussion: If I could go back in time and kill someone [View all]Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)clear plastic out from around the entire top of the bottle. The perforated lines are never quite enough to help you get it started. You struggle with that and end up having to use a knife, then you open the cap. Of course, you have to press down on the cap to open it too. When you get in there, you find that foil cover over the bottle. Even with a knife, you cannot get all of that stuff off. So, some of it falls down into the bottle of pills and you have to check each time you take a pill or get foil in your mouth. What's worse, very few offer the little clear thing to pull it off. So, you end up having to scrape it off after cutting into it. No tabs to make it easier to grab, nope. Then, after all of that, you have to pull the cotton out and figure out what to do with it, because you really don't want to throw perfectly good cotton away. I actually kind of like the cotton, though, because it can be useful, at least, and it does keep the pills from being so freaking noisy when you are moving stuff around to get them home. And at the bottom, like the cherry on bottom, there is that weird ass silica gel thingy. Pills do not need to "taste" fresh. You are going to swallow them whole most of the time. They don't need to have any kind of "fresh taste." Anyone who decides to chew up a Tylenol is probably in for a hideous taste they won't soon forget. I doubt the little silica pack is really needed in that case.