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[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 74 points 5 days ago

Without that air cushion your chips get smashed into a million pieces

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago

Also that air is mostly nitrogen gas to keep the chips fresh for longer.

[-] zout@fedia.io 48 points 5 days ago

Technically, all air is mostly nitrogen gas.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

Yes, but the air inside chip bags is even more mostlier nitrogen gas

[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

It's not the nitrogen that keeps them fresh, it's the lack of oxygen. So that aspect doesn't affect how much "air" is in a bag.

[-] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

I see you're paid off by Big Chip

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

Big chip. Chippys mittens. Wait

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago

Nobody is arguing it doesn't need air. (or nitrogen)

Those chips definitely do not need as much air as Lays is giving them. They could easily fill the bag to 80% and still have uncrunched chips, instead of the 50% they have now.

They just lower the contents while keeping the price the same to maximize profits. But most people don't notice because the bag is just filled with more nitrogen.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Do people who argue, that a bag of chips is mostly air, also think, that more soda cans would fit on a shelf if the fans were cubical?

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Probable. People are quite dumb. Anyone that works with the public can attest to that.

[-] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That’s exactly what big potato chip wants you to think

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Okay, but they could still add more than one chip per bag.

[-] drath@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I'm still surprised that people bought that bullshit of a reason

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 days ago

In the rest of the world, we have air cushions too in our chip bags.

They don't need to be 75% of the volume to work.

[-] CannedCairn@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

It's so the water doesn't get all crunched up in shipping

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

The water just settled.

  • Lays, probably
[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Relevant xkcd

https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/

Maybe Lays has a point

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

The glass is oversized.

[-] Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago

I will argue that the glass being half empty can be an optimistic view. The empty space is an opportunity to fill the glass with something of my choice. For example I could fill the remaining half with orange juice concentrate to now have a full glass of orange juice.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

looks nervous well, you see... ummmm... if we put more water in it, it would splash out and ruin the product

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

No you are wrong for lays to consider glass as full water has to be visible through microscope

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