• Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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        1 year ago

        Pretty much every bag of chips I’ve opened has had enough broken chips for me to be annoyed.

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            1 year ago

            That’s more about the 20% of my chips being broken due to bags with too little air.

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              1 year ago

              Do you think more air will protect more chips? Do you not think there is a point where too much air allows the chips to move around too much in transport and thus you get more broken chips? A point of diminishing returns?

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                Do you think more air will protect more chips?

                Yes

                Do you not think there is a point where too much air allows the chips to move around too much in transport and thus you get more broken chips?

                No

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          1 year ago

          Absolutely do. At least once a week. Was there a point you were trying to make or was it an attempt to gatekeep corn chips?

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            1 year ago

            OK, first off - gatekeep corn chips? You need to get off the internet more often.

            Second, you enjoy nachos made of tortilla crumbs?

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                1 year ago

                An entire bag? Never. A bag with more than half the chips broken into pieces too small for dipping? More often than I’d like.

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                  And you think more air has and will continue to reduce broken chips? Don’t you think there is a point of diminishing returns?

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                    1 year ago

                    I’m sure there’s an optimal amount of air to balance space and protection.

                    But I was responding to the “no one ever complained about broken chips,” which is patently false. I’ve complained.