Here’s the Tower investigates a coordinated effort by food packagers to make the lids on jars increasingly tighter.

This worldwide strategy has resulted in trapping delicious salsa forever inside unopenable jars, as well as a growing stockpile known as the Fort Knox of Pickles.

That’s what it’s coming down to, folks. That’s what it’s coming down to.

Associate producer: Betsy McClimans 

Music used with permission:
“Minimal Meaning” by Marten Moses

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