According to the legend, the inventor of these stick sugar packages committed suicide when he found out that people tear off one end. He had intended for them to be broken in the middle.
On one hand, it's understandable. The man offered a brilliant idea to the world, the idea that shone in his mind: people elegantly breaking the packages over their cups, from which sweet contents pour into the espresso. And what instead! Tearing off the end! Poking the stick into the coffee! Philistines! His aesthetic sense could not suffer it.
On the other hand, if he only had stopped to think whether something seeming obvious to him might not be obvious to others, he could have simply printed the "break here" line along the middle.
