Some packages of cookies have a clearly defined opening and, when combined with the printing on the front, definitively state out of which side (right or left) the cookies should come.
Think Chips-Ahoy and their resealable bag; assuming you are to read the printing right-side-up then the cookies are designed to come out of the right side.
Even Oreos with their "aisles" of cookies have a stopper at one end and, when combined with the printing, urge us to feed from the right.
Now, I just opened a package of sugar wafers which has no internal means of suggesting which side to open. I opened the left (based on right-side-up printing). However, being a right-handed individual, I was surprised at how cumbersome it was to obtain additional cookies. Then it dawned on me: I opened the wrong side of the package and was left wondering why. The clear answer was that I wanted the strawberry cookies first and save the vanilla for last (anyone else do that?).
Which brings me to the question: which side of the cookie package do you open when the manufacturer has not "urged" you to one particular side?
For those of you who eat Pepperidge Farms cookies in the stand up bags I consider you far too elite for this post. ;-)
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