• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        156·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
          7·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • jcit878@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            they just shrank the whole size a few years back in Australia. even skinny people can’t get their hands in now

          • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
            12·
            9 months ago

            Which is my point. There is no reason to increase the air in a Pringle’s can. They have reduced the size of the can, increased the amount of air, all in the name of shrinkflation. Same as other bagged chips. All the excuses is just marketing bs.

              • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
                2·
                9 months ago

                Go on, have a google. The weight has consistently and distinctly and excessively changed. Surprise reveal, the changes only ever give you less product for the same, or higher price.

            • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
              11·
              9 months ago

              You specifically said they added more air, aka empty space to the cans.

              I don’t see anything anywhere, like the other poster above said lol.

              • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
                11·
                9 months ago

                I mean, it’s a particularly bold type of stupid. Other poster claimed the air was for freight reasons. I asked for the source, and there was none. If you bothered to at least google, there’s plenty relating to air in chip packaging, including Pringle’s. Pro tip for amateur googlers: Add shrinkflation to the search to get specific results!

      • theonyltruemupf@feddit.de
        61·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
          1811·
          9 months 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.

          • _danny@lemmy.world
            123·
            9 months 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.

            • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
              52·
              9 months ago

              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.

            • krey@sh.itjust.works
              31·
              9 months ago

              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.

          • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
            12·
            9 months ago

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

              • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
                12·
                9 months ago

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

                • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  9 months 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?

            • Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
              33·
              9 months 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?

              • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
                4·
                9 months ago

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

                Second, you enjoy nachos made of tortilla crumbs?

    • tehmics@lemmy.world
      141·
      9 months ago

      Yes but it’s far more than necessary to protect the chips. Bag sizes are inflated for the psychology not the practicality

        • tehmics@lemmy.world
          21·
          9 months ago

          1. The nitrogen is to keep them from going stale in oxygen. The amount of nitrogen across various chip manufacturers ranges from 19% gas all the way to 59%. That discrepancy range is where the psychology comes into play.

          2. The gas is partially pack fill to keep them from getting crushed, obviously. My whole point was that it is significantly more gas than necessary for pack fill.

          Fact is if you make the package look bigger, people think there’s more. There’s a reason we have laws about unnecessary slack fill. Nice try though, Dwight

          • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            Various studies have went into this type of packaging. The amount of gas used is optimal to ensure freshness and keep the chips from crumbling.

  • MudMan@kbin.social
    171·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
    132·
    9 months ago

    It’s so you can enjoy more of the water in complete cubes rather than broken up into little shavings.