Can You Handle These Packaging Tongue Twisters?

January 07, 2014

Try saying this out loud three times in a row as quickly as you can (just make sure you’re alone in your office, or your co-workers may have you committed):

“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.”

Could you do it? If the MIT researchers who called those six words the hardest tongue twister ever created are to be believed, you probably stumbled, stuttered and slipped your way through it.

Well, over here at the Ernest Packaging Solutions offices, we never met a challenge we didn’t like, even if it’s linguistics instead of packaging. However, we simply had to put our own little spin on the wordy challenge and decided to try a few packaging-themed twisters for our packaging experts to tackle. Here are a couple of our favorites:

How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

The fat chap was trapped in a vat full of bubble wrap. 

Of course we had to include this terrible tongue-testing twister from Twitter:

So send us your favorite tongue twisters, packaging-related or otherwise. Better yet, send us your most challenging or favorite packaging dilemma!  Our team is wily waiting for your replies. Comment below or send them to us on Twitter.