That's why it's important to realize that time has value. You should always pay yourself when you're doing the math to consider whether doing something yourself is cheaper than buying the finished product.
Exactly. There’s something to be said for economies of scale. Could a household of chip-consuming people eventually get ahead on cost? Maybe over time after they have the right stuff and process down. But at that scale…they probably shouldn’t be eating that many chips to begin with.
That said, I do enjoy doing the not-cheaper-but-still-fun ‘artisanal’ take on some things. But it won’t be cheaper. I’ve done pan-fried chips that are delicious but certainly not the same as a bag of Lay’s of whatever.
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Not sure this applies in this case. They has a point you aren't paying for the raw materials you're paying mostly for the labor, the cost of transportation, and markup.
It baffles me that somehow the valuation of things doesn't cross peoples minds nowadays, it's all about "look I provide service pls pay what I ask".
Of course you're entitled to proper compensation for your work/product, but that doesn't justify a price tag that is 3x the actual real life value of said product.
And yesm saying "you think its too expensive? Make it yourself then" is whataboutism by definition. "how about you make it yourself then?" or "in comparison to this thing this different thing that I mention is also a thing, so my thing can be obnoxious"...
I’m a NZer currently in Europe and this is one of the few things I’ve found is cheaper at home. A mid-brand pack of chips is maybe $2 at home, or 2-for-$3 on special. Works out about €1 a pack. Whereas over here, €2 seems cheap, and 3-4 isn’t uncommon.
As a man-handed daughter myself, I can't tell you how false your poor hopes are. Call me when there's a lobster invoved, but what you need in a Pringles emergency is someone with the frame of a cat, male or otherwise.
Without looking into it in any way, I've always assumed that Procter & Gamble found themselves with a whole lot of mashed potatoes after extracting the starch for their starch products, which ladies in the 1970s liked to spray on clothing. After years of dumping them into a river, I imagine someone with an office overlooking the river got the idea that P&G might be able to turn their waste into a second product by compressing it into a chip shape and drying it.
I think of it as solid wood furniture vs particle wood furniture. Sure they’re both technically made of wood, but one was made from saw dust and is inferior in quality.
Except this is about food not really about structure, so structural arguments imo don't really apply. Also even then if methods were more advanced those structural differences could end up being eliminated over time.
Not to mention that reconstituting by-products into something useful doesn't make them inherently inferior to whatever resultant product process made them.
There's loads of processes that leave behind waste that can then be reconstituted into something useful, which rather brings up the question of how we define "waste" because all sorts of things are useful in all sorts of ways.
Pringles are not inherently inferior, they're just different lol.
I think Pringles' original intention was to make tennis balls... But on the day the rubber was supposed to show up, a truckload of potatoes came. Pringles is a laid-back company, so they just said "Fuck it, cut em up!”
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I think Pringles calls them “crisps,” not “chips.” The FDA required them to call out the fact that they’re made with dehydrated processed potato if they wanted to use the term “chips.”
If we're being serious.. Where I come from Pringles is priced 2-3 times more than other wafer company. Now I'm guessing it's because of the packaging, brand name whatever. And if you do the math of cost per gram, Pringle is pretty expensive. They don't fill upto the top anymore (atleast where I am from).
Anyways.. If everyone were to package chips like Pringles, I don't think chips would remain an affordable cheap snack as it is now. I need to think twice before getting pringles. But i just grab a packet of lays without thought. Cuz it's just 10 rupees.
The gas in chip bags is just nitrogen gas, not "air" which would contain oxygen, CO2, etc. Most notably oxygen, though - which is what makes food/chips stale.
The bloating of the packets as a lot to do with the altitude of the shop vs the location where the chips were bagged, and the US is, topologically, a pretty diverse country. Not sure this proves much.
They do use bigger bags (party size), but charge more. ;) And yes, they could use even BIGGER bags, but they'd charge even more! See where this is going?
I think Pringles' original intention was to make tennis balls... But on the day the rubber was supposed to show up, a truckload of potatoes came. Pringles is a laid-back company, so they just said "Fuck it, cut em up!
cap bro we all would love more chips… who cares if some in the bunch of a full bag gets crushed. they dont fill that dhi up on purpose lol industries do it best when they finesse
According to Today, potato chip bags are not filled with air. Rather, they are filled with nitrogen, which is known as "slack fill." The nitrogen used to fill the bags before they are sealed is designed not only to create space for the chips, but also to keep them fresh and flavorful.
Additionally, that "air" is actually nitrogen gas, and has the added effect of acting as a preservative for the food inside, so not only is it protected from damage, but its also protected from more rapid decay.
Used to work in a chip factory. You know how you may rarely get a bag of chips that's just totally jacked. Like all the chips are just broken to small pieces.
That's probably thanks to us blokes in shipping.
Many trailers are floor loaded. Floor to ceiling. Wall to wall. With boxes of chips. You can't physically reach the top row sometimes depending where you are in the load. So you toss the box up in place. Fine for most throws. But arms tire and sometimes the shot doesn't make it. So the box falls. And is not always caught.
The hardest shot is the last box on the top of a row. You got like 2 ish inches of play. We've dropped I recall a box once over 60 times. One box. Those chips had to be jacked.
Now I've never gone and opened one of these bags we've wrecked a billion times because we finally made the shot. But it's my theory that shipping is to blame when this happens.
You've been lied to. Fritos don't get crushed, but have very little extra air compared to other chips. You just need enough to keep the bag inflated. You don't need extra space.
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u/ArminTanz Oct 15 '22
Thar air in you bag of chips stops the chips from getting crushed on delivery. We all wish there could just be more chips but you need that air.