[jamesicus]

When I was a young boy my mother used to always stop by Woolworth's, in downtown Burnley, when she did the Saturday morning shopping to get my father fresh salted peanuts which he dearly loved.

They were packaged in cellophane bags which always seemed to split at the seams during transport on the Corporation bus.

My father used to pick the spilled nuts from the bottom of the shopping basket and he would always say: "Someday they are going to make plastic bags that won't split so easily".

I wish he was alive now (he died in 1963) so that he could experience plastic packaging that even Hercules would have difficulty tearing open!