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People Are Having A Real Hard Time Opening This Gelato Brand’s Tubs

There’s even a Reddit thread called “I can’t open my jar of Talenti gelato”:

The inside of my ring finger is actually bleeding a little from trying to open this thing.

The butter knife worked for me. I tried the hot water… hitting it with a hammer.. those rubber gripper things.. nothing.. ran the butter knife under it.. then had to use the knife and prided the lid off. YES I ate the whole container of melted goodness.

It took two people, a screwdriver, and thirty minutes to finally get it open. There must be something wrong with their latest batch of containers. I’ve never had this happen before.

I just gave up. I cut a hole in the top.

The lid machine at Talenti HQ has apparently been fixed, and the too-tight batch from last summer is working its way out of stores, but until then, if you want gelato, prepare to work for it.