You may already know the surprising meaning behind HARIBO’s name, or all the unexpected flavours that really go into their fried egg sweets. But we’re willing to bet you had no idea that the strip at the back of the pack, which acts as a sort of seam, has a secret function. In a TikTok posted earlier this year, site user @anna.antonje stitched a video from another creator showing how the packs were really meant to be opened. “No way,” the creator gasped before running to the shops to try the trick herself. What’s the hidden function?The original video showed a woman peeling the vertical seam of the pack, located on its back, down ― instead of simply opening at the top on its horizontal seam. “Did you know that you could open them like this?” she asked, cleanly peeling the strip off the pack. The movement left the top of the pack intact because the vertical seam started below the compacted upper str