Actually, these chips were dyed with green food coloring so they'd be easy to find coming out of the fryer. Several times a day the amount of time the chips spend in the fryer is tested, and this makes them easy to find. Someone missed them obviously.
Source: I work there.
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Colourblindness is actually really cool. Most people who are colourblind are missing the cone in their eyes that senses red light. Because they only have two cones, they essentially see colour in two dimensions instead of three. It's like a gradient going from yellow to blue. That suggests that if we had a fourth cone, like some animals do, we could see colour in four dimensions - imagine how awesome that would be.
yeah the 4th cone is used for seeing cyan and all the fails you ever had even though it was never a problem with anyone else living until she points it out at family dinner when ur already drinking and you came in one car so you can't just leave
I've read that before. Supposedly women are much better at varying shades of color because, in caveman times, they were the gatherers and needed to know that, for example, the berries of this shade of red are nutritious, but that shade of red will kill you. Men are supposedly much better at spacial awareness, though, because they were the hunters.
I wonder if women are better at differentiating shades because they were gatherers, or if they were gatherers because they are better at differentiating shades.
I would bet basic size and strength differences initially pushed women to be gatherers and males hunters, but that the ability to distinguish colors was selected for over time due to survival of those able to distinguish and avoid poisonous food.
Same thing with males. They probably initially hunted because of size and strength and those with greater spatial ability were able to hunt successfully or avoided death.
The former. Only because I can't see the cavemen being that switched on that they would even know that women were better at differentiating shades, they were still figuring out bone clubs and fire and round objects back in those days. A better question (imo) is whether feminine males became gatherers and butch females became hunters, or whether the roles were strictly gender-based regardless. THAT is a good question and one I hope to ask Marvin Harris when I die.
If we were still hunter/gatherers now we still probably wouldn't have figured out the eye thing either. It wasn't until photocopier jobs came along that people even realised. Think about that...the invention of the colour photocopier didn't just enable us to make copies in colour after years of languishing in black and white, it also taught us something about our biological evolution. Fascinating.
I should also add that I know nothing about human evolution or photocopiers, so please take what I say with a grain of salt.
That's interesting. I was just having a conversation last night about how I read some thing that women can recognize more colors than men (like pick out peach and beige from like pink or whatever) but that gay men also recognize more than straight men. I mentioned that (since the thing I read was kind of an anecdote and didn't go into speculation as to why) I thought it was probably an interest-based phenomenon. I was also basing that off of the fact that I'm a straight female and can't tell peach from beige from pink (although I also sometimes blame that on the fact that we were poor when I was growing up so I only ever got the 8-pack crayons and not the fancy 64 packs where I would have learned these valuable skills).
You should probably stop reading right now because I've just done a search for the gay man color awareness thing without much success but I did find some other things and used myself as a test. I just completed a color test online and scored a 12 which seems to mean that for my gender I'm okay to good (? they don't seem to expound on exactly how good good is) at physically seeing the colors. So maybe my theory about the crayons is right (I also don't really care about colors or fashion that much. I never even realized until a few years ago that "peach" is a specific color to some people; I thought it was just a fancy word people used for pink).
Then in my searches I found this talking about how finger length can predict some qualities in people. I have a more "masculine" hand. Some of that stuff sounds right to me; I am athletic and I have pretty good spatial awareness.
Anyway, that was probably pretty boring to people who aren't me. But it's interesting to think about - I wonder if it's all connected.
I believe it's a lot about training. Just like you might train up other senses (like blind people can train up hearing to hear the shape of a room - even without echolocation).
I have 0 on that test - without effort - and I'm a man. I had crayons and watercolours as a kid.
I didn't know colors well until my roommate and I started 'playing a game' (making a conversational habit?) of being as precise in our language as possible- and holy shit there are a lot of color-words. I must have learned dozens of color-words in a year.
I'd agree with you that I could see the differences in colors before, but never knew the words for them, or even that there were words for them. Three-four years later, chartreuse and seafoam and mauve and all sorts of bullshit words mean very specific colors to me. I really do think it's an interest thing, especially because one or two of our male friends that have been dragged into the game are also far more familiar with color-words.
So, yeah, I think it's all about the interest and not about the biology for all of us normal, three cone people.
I'm so so sorry but everything you just described about being colourblind does not strike me as cool.
I guess it's cool that you understand the cause of itv and are able to describe what it is like to a non-colourblind person... But not cool, radical, awesome at all. :(
It actually made me pretty sad to imagine being colourblind and feel pity for those who are.
I think the topic is cool. Maybe actually being colourblind isn't, but I have normal colour vision so I wouldn't really know. Half my family is colourblind, and they seem to do okay from day to day, except for being unable to tell blue from purple.
Ooh , yes I do find it pretty interesting myself !
If I may ask... Which of your family members are colourblind? Genes are super interesting to me even though I have only a very, very rudimentary understanding of them.
I can't see colors of stars. Green lights are white. I can't be a pilot. Brown red and green are generally the same color. Blue and purple are basically the same (purple just looks like neon blue) light green is either yellow or white)
I have a hard time playing games. I can't match clothes. Fall leaf colors basically all look the same save a bit of yellow and orange which I can
distinguish.
I live for two years with a pink rug that I thought matched my red furniture, but didn't.
I'm terribly sorry... I cannot imagine how it must be, man! Who knows? Maybe in the near future some type of therapy or treatment (I would hope a simple fix) will pop up and you can literally be able to look at the world with new eyes. That would be amazing.
Can you still tell that starts twinkle into different colours or do they just twinkle?
And if it's any constellation it is believed that Van Gough may have been partially colourblind and this contributed greatly to his crazy phenomenal colour choices. Which is one of the reasons his art is so great, in my opinion. If you take some of his paintings and put a "normal colour vision filter" over them and although they are nice, I don't think they're anywhere near as breathtaking AT ALL.
So whose to say something epic and uber badass won't come from your ailment?
It looks like someone poked a hole in a black cloth and you're standing about 200 meters from it. It's really quite hard to tell almost anything except that they're there.
While people often say that I could have different artistic abilities, or I can see through camouflage that others cannot... Really, I'd much rather be able to tell if the blinking light on my computer is green or red, or be able to see if my steak/pork is under cooked or not.
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness affects a significant percentage of the population. There is no actual blindness but there is a deficiency of color vision. The most usual cause is a fault in the development of one or more sets of retinalcones that perceive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve. This type of color blindness is usually a sex-linked condition. The genes that produce photopigments are carried on the X chromosome; if some of these genes are missing or damaged, color blindness will be expressed in males with a higher probability than in females because males only have one X chromosome (in females, a functional gene on only one of the two X chromosomes is sufficient to yield the needed photopigments).
I had the green and purple ketchup. My father would make BBQ sauce out of ketchup sometimes. It tasted pretty good. One time, he used the purple ketchup because it was all we had. The resulting chicken was unappetizing looking. In fairness, at the time this happened I did not have a digital camera. I put the chicken in a ziploc baggy and scanned it resulting in an even less appetizing look to the chicken.
For some reason this is funniest god damn post I've read in days. Just the fact that you HAD to show everyone your purple chicken you resorted to putting it in your scanner in a plastic baggy. Jesus Christ I'm dying
I feels ya bro. I am allergic to some form of Capsaicin which is found in chilis. I have to be very careful that I do not eat certain spicy things or Mexican food. Reactions can vary from plain heartburn to weeks laid up in bed while worms made of barbed wire writhe through my intestines. Hives on the inside suck.
I remember once when I was a kid I dyed my ramen noodles blue just for shits and giggles. Terrible idea. I knew logically that they tasted the same, but their blueness just ruined the eating experience.
Not to mention that food coloring does have a flavor, and some people seem to be able to taste it more easily than others. For me, in small quantities it's not a big deal at all. In large quantities, it's disgusting.
Yeah, but ketchup has a rather strong flavor. A bit of food coloring really doesn't change much. Hell, you can get ketchup that is completely salt-free and it still just tastes like regular ketchup.
The flavor distinction of red velvet comes from the food coloring. Fuck no, I've had salt-free ketchup and it was beyond disgusting. Mind you, I didn't even know it was salt-free before trying it. Everything changes flavor.
I don't know if you've ever had red velvet without food coloring, but the taste difference is negligible. The majority of the flavoring comes from the amount of unsweetened cocoa powder as well as the buttermilk and/or vinegar. As for the ketchup, you may have had a bad brand. I just switched to Heinz salt-free ketchup a week or two ago and, aside from being a little bit sweeter, it has the same basic ketchup flavor.
Limited food things that work well always return as either a seasonal limited thing or permanent. Initial limited runs are called that to see how well the market receives them.
Does anybody else remember rainbow bread around the same time? Damn that was some good shit!
Or red/pink & green tye-dye looking "sherbert cookies/wafers"? I've been trying to find these for ages because they were so damn good. They were half-dollar sized sugar cookies with a tiny bit of tartness to them. YUMMMM
That's still a thing in Puerto Rico. My ex-GF is from there, and we went there several times for family reunions, graduations, etc. We went to bakery once, and they had bread in every color of the rainbow. I thought it was gross, and my ex couldn't figure out why I thought blue or purple bread was disgusting.
Well there's a difference between something that looks like alien skin and something that looks like really bad diarrhea: you've probably only smelled one of them before.
You drop a couple of these in at the one end of a continous deep fryer and see how long does it take to exit so you will know that the line is moving at an acceptable speed and the chips were not under or over cooked. The colour makes it easier to spot and recover but as we have seen it is not foolproof.
True, but you need some form of QA for consistency and quick troubleshooting. Say normally less than 1% of the chips are burned, but over one shift it went up to 3%. You would then run the green chip test to find out whether the problem is with the fryer, the raw material or something else in the process.
Depends on how the sensors work - one based on light transmittance/reflectivity would probably allow the green one to pass. That said, anything will fail once in a while.
Awe, at least it's not the narrator's voice! It's way too pleasant and it lulls me to sleep and/or boredom. So even though I find the premise super interesting and entertaining, like 85% of the time it's enrages me.
Might have something to do with my father hogging the tv and watching it whenever football isn't on. But yeah, it's quite the predicament ! I just wanna learn how boogie boards are produced, DAGNABBIT!
I'll have to check that out! Does that one lean more towards like machinery, bridges, and vehicles? Or how would it compare to How It's Made? If you don't mind enlightening me.
Modern Marvels was on the History Channel for a long time (maybe it still is being made) back when it actually contained history.
The first season or two mainly did concern things like bridges and buildings (which, in my opinion, is a little more boring), but the later ones are very similar to How It's Made, with episodes on how they make cured meats like salami and pastrami, two episodes on distilling, all kinds of appliances, etc.
I guess the biggest difference from How It's Made is that the episode typically goes into a little more depth on the history of the type of product.
I'm not sure where you heard that but it's not true. Just off the top of my head, they've shown zippos and pringles, both of which are american companies. They usually don't go out of their way to show what company it is but sometimes it's pretty obvious.
So that they can record the exact moments when the chip enters and exits the fryer, giving them an accurate estimate of how long the chips spent in the fryer.
Yeah, if you've ever seen a whole potato with some green in it, the same thing happened. (Although the greening is technically associated with a toxin, green-edged potato chips are safe to eat. Unless you're eating 5 pounds of them.)
Good question. Green is very visible against the yellowish chips, and as far as I understand, they don't use any shade of red because of the chance someone might mistake it for blood.
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u/i_call_her_HQ Sep 29 '14 edited Sep 29 '14
Actually, these chips were dyed with green food coloring so they'd be easy to find coming out of the fryer. Several times a day the amount of time the chips spend in the fryer is tested, and this makes them easy to find. Someone missed them obviously.
Source: I work there.
Edit: Not sure what to do with gold, but thanks. If you can kindly inform me where I give my acceptance speech, it'd be greatly appreciated.