Have you valued the little things in life? The mundane things? The tiny things around you that quietly make your life better? Occlunapids are one of these things. They hold back disaster… make sure things don’t come tumbling from their homes… and most importantly… they clip bread bags closed.
For a short episode, there’s plenty of neat things to explore about it. Let’s start with who makes these little tags in the first place.
In the event you want to go look at the website of the one person making most of the bread closures.
What about why do bread tags have a scientific name in the first place?
This one is a fun article. It introduces you to the concept of the HORG website where bread tag collectors gather and has a lot of great info in it.
And while we’re talking about them, here is the HORG website, or the website for the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy. Stuff like this just really delights me.
Finally, I know you all want to know if the colors of the bread tags match up to the day it was put on the shelf, as the story goes. So here’s that resource for you.
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