Engineer: The glass is too big.
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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.
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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
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Something to do with efficiency when they transport them via aircraft.
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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. Helps to keep your arteries slightly larger.
Helps you fart more.
It's so you don't get a bag full of crumbs.
No one in the history of civilisation has complained about too many broken chips in a bag.
When people started complaining about the amount of air being included in the bag, "prevents broken chips" was the bs marketing PR line put out. It's just not true.
You know the easiest way to prove it's bs? Pringle's have introduced more air into their cans at the same time. Why? To match the shrinkflation of their competitors. Because adding air to a can of Pringle's can only result in MORE broken chips. Which, again, no one in the fucking world has ever complained about.
I am absolutely sad when I get a bag of broken chips. And it definitely works you can test it yourself with some ziplock bags. There most likely is some shrinkflation hidden in that air, but the majority of it probably is playing an important part for people like me who love their chips but hate the crumbs.
There is definitively a point of diminishing returns. Half a bag of air just allows the chips to smash into each other and break. Only enough air to prevent outside forces compressing the chips is fine.
I'm not going to bother to find out when and how often these bags of completely crumbed chips made you sad in your life. They would no doubt be negligible and more related to transport issues than packaging issues.
But you'll get a bag 3/4 with not broken chips and 1/4 with broken chips on average... ideally for the same price as the half full bag you get now that still may have more or less broken chips, depending on how it was transported.
"Air is preferable to broken chips!"
I've complained about broken chips more than a dozen times in my life I'm sure of it
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Yes but it's far more than necessary to protect the chips. Bag sizes are inflated for the psychology not the practicality
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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.
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
Ok but why don't all chip bags have zip seals built into the bag?
Cost
Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
realist: is this piss?
All water is filtered piss in some quantity, right?
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