Engineer: The glass is too big.
Engineer: that glass has a 2x safety factor
Twice as big as it needs to be.
Mechanic: The glass isn’t broken.
I don’t understand the line through optimist.
It’s because it’s a screenshot taken on a broken phone.
Amazing.
That’s for the observant. Your glass is one dimensional.
All those glasses are two-dimensional.
I’m high.
The glass is full: half of it is air.
Which is precisely why you don’t have a bunch of destroyed old tasting chips too.
https://www.pneumatech.com/en-na/blog/nitrogen-the-secret-to-crispy-chips
https://www.today.com/food/why-there-so-much-air-bags-potato-chips-t133509
Yeah, horse shit. I’ve had brands that use way less air in the bag and they weren’t destroyed, and I remember a time when companies in general didn’t use all the air in the bags and we weren’t getting bags of dust back then.
They have always been sold by weight, so it doesn’t really matter too much.
Who looks at the weight?
Every reasonable consumer.
Every savvy consumer.
Then why has Pringle’s added more air to their cans?
Ok, I can’t find a source for them actually doing that. I’ve tried for about an hour. Absolutely no even remotely credible news source has this as an article or even a blog post. Other than that, Pringles cans are specifically designed to prevent all of the crushing, along with the crisps themselves. And, uh, they are sold by weight meaning this holds no real merit even if a source for this could be found.
they just shrank the whole size a few years back in Australia. even skinny people can’t get their hands in now
Which is my point. There is no reason to increase the air in a Pringle’s can. They have reduced the size of the can, increased the amount of air, all in the name of shrinkflation. Same as other bagged chips. All the excuses is just marketing bs.
If the weight of the product has changed, then I’ll care.
Go on, have a google. The weight has consistently and distinctly and excessively changed. Surprise reveal, the changes only ever give you less product for the same, or higher price.
Something to do with efficiency when they transport them via aircraft.
Source?
Is this some kind of news I’m not aware of and Google nor reddit is pulling for me?
… It’s just the inside of a Pringle’s can.
Old tasting no. It’s not the nitrogen that keeps them fresh, it’s the lack of Oxygen. It will of course keep them from crumbling to pieces though and that’s enough of a reason.
Or is it?
There’s a practical reason chips bags are mostly air tho.
Yes but it’s far more than necessary to protect the chips. Bag sizes are inflated for the psychology not the practicality
False. Bag sizes are relative to the amount of nitrogen needed to keep the chips from crushing.
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The nitrogen is to keep them from going stale in oxygen. The amount of nitrogen across various chip manufacturers ranges from 19% gas all the way to 59%. That discrepancy range is where the psychology comes into play.
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The gas is partially pack fill to keep them from getting crushed, obviously. My whole point was that it is significantly more gas than necessary for pack fill.
Fact is if you make the package look bigger, people think there’s more. There’s a reason we have laws about unnecessary slack fill. Nice try though, Dwight
Various studies have went into this type of packaging. The amount of gas used is optimal to ensure freshness and keep the chips from crumbling.
If that were the case there wouldn’t be such a massive variance in the amount used. I’d love to see these studies though since so many seem to exist
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I recently saw a local brand of chips with the tagline “less air, more chips”, and hey, there it is, capitalism at work. Competition happening.
Then I remembered that PepsiCo owns Frito-Lay and they are a huge conglomerate, so it doesn’t matter what it says on the bag. And hey, there it is, capitalism also.
Ok but why don’t all chip bags have zip seals built into the bag?
Cost
It’s so you can enjoy more of the water in complete cubes rather than broken up into little shavings.
I hate it when my water breaks…
It’s usually for a good reason though
Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
realist: is this piss?Qualitäts michmich!
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