Comments on: Contents of My Bag of Chips

By: I'm not telling you my name

I'm not telling you my name — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:44:43 +0000

oh my god people everyone is KIDDING, no one cares if it’s not air in the bag of chips, the point is they’re not chips

By: bionelly

bionelly — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:26:49 +0000

If inhaled in large enough quantities, yes. It’s reasonably safe to eat foods that have been exposed to it, though (otherwise eating food made on a charcoal grill would cause instant death.) Not that that’s actually what they put in the bag, of course, but that’s not *why* they don’t use it.

By: Kewi

Kewi — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:02:38 +0000

Carbon monoxide is poisonous.

By: bionelly

bionelly — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:03:37 +0000

But some of us like science….

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:29:53 +0000

its hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

By: Nyx899

Nyx899 — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:11:12 +0000

Now I want chips. :[

By: Conner

Conner — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:56:57 +0000

WIN!

By: imnotsayinmyname

imnotsayinmyname — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:12:36 +0000

ya guys they were just making a joke! dont bring science into this?

By: Insert text here

Insert text here — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:36:28 +0000

WORD!
And agree with 3v@n

By: 3v@n

3v@n — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:16:13 +0000

The snackmosphere!

By: the random jack

the random jack — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:15:09 +0000

funny i was eating a pack when i saw this and its true…

By: umm no

umm no — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:47:18 +0000

lol think of it .. you outer space with a few of those and pop em’ open when you cant….hold….breath…..longer X_X

By: bionelly

bionelly — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:57:15 +0000

Not in the US.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:08:13 +0000

bag of chips??? don’t you mean CRISPS?

By: Lightbulb

Lightbulb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:44:43 +0000

Argon’s in lightbulbs. It’s Nitrogen.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:18:33 +0000

The cost chips are almost worthless compared to the cost of the packaging, so reducing the amount of chips barely decreases the cost of the entire package, and in fact, would probably decrease sales. So it is barely worthwhile to do so.

You have to realise that each company must make their product appear as appealing as possible. So that involves making it look as big as possible. If there are two competing brands of potato chips which both weighed the same amount, were priced the same, but one was packaged twice as large as the other, I’d bet that 80% of consumers would choose the larger of the two. Companies really have no choice but to make them as big as possible.

Plus the nitrogen is needed to provide cushioning anyway.

By: Mynx

Mynx — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:31:30 +0000

Did you have to ruin the fun?

By: bionelly

bionelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:58 +0000

Plus if I remember right, they actually just put nitrogen in the bags, so you wouldn’t get any oxygen out of it. If they put oxygen in it, it would make the chips go stale faster.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:54:12 +0000

Actually they put the air in so that they don’t get as crushed during shipping.

By: frito lay

frito lay — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:09:03 +0000

that’s anti-snack food inustry propaganda for you. you liberal snack-haters have reduced this country to a frail, hungry mass yearning for delicious relief, and that my friends is snacks.

By: frito lay

frito lay — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:04:34 +0000

thank you for your continued support.

By: Admiral Akbar

Admiral Akbar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:01:02 +0000

CAPM would you just suck it up and admit what we already know: you love Captain Crunch and want to get it on.

There, I said it and not it’s out in the open.

By: Guy pretending to be tom

Guy pretending to be tom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:34 +0000

They put cheese farts in the bags, duh.

By: CAPM

CAPM — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:41:54 +0000

Momma told me the last thing she said to you in bed: “Are you in yet?”

By: yeah no

yeah no — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:54:08 +0000

But if you’ll notice as the economy and inflation get worse, the air-to-chip ratio gap gets larger. They are doing what they can to keep the price of the bag the same, by lowering the amount of chips in each one. Almost every snack company is doing it.

By: yeah no

yeah no — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:20:57 +0000

Actually it wouldn’t. The volume of the bag with chips and air alike would already be displacing air on the boat, so you’d have less to begin with when you opened the bag.

By: shophia

shophia — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:31:45 +0000

i made this for fun,thank you =]
people take this site so seriously..

By: H3xx

H3xx — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:50:34 +0000

This is why I don’t buy those little bags of chips. Although those would be great to take along on a submarine. get low on air, pop open a few bags of chips!

By: Sylens

Sylens — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:44:49 +0000

Carbon Monoxide, duh.

By: robynnn

robynnn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:37:31 +0000

what a simply charming graph.
something that everyone can relate to!
just beautiful.

By: _D

_D — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:26:29 +0000

Now 30% more air!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:10:51 +0000

That “air” is simply for cushioning. If if wasn’t there you would find yourself with a bag of crumbs.

By: TheRealWazzar

TheRealWazzar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:31:29 +0000

Hehe

By: badcat

badcat — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:28:03 +0000

Air > crumbs > chips

By: Kraas

Kraas — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:17:51 +0000

Contents may have expanded during shipping.

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:12:50 +0000

MMMMM, air. Bet’cha can’t eat just one!

By: CAPM

CAPM — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:29:41 +0000

Someone hacked into it. Probably you. No – couldn’t be you. You’d have to be able to spell the web address.

P.S. I hope you aren’t having any wet dreams about me…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:16:18 +0000

the air is in there so that the chips don’t get crushed in shipping. Would you rather have a smaller bag full of potato crumbs?

By: CAPM

CAPM — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:53:02 +0000

You are SO obsessed with me! Trust me – you’re out of your league.

P.S. Maybe you can assume a name that you can actually SPELL, such as “Ed” or better yet “I.”

By: r3d34r

r3d34r — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:38:53 +0000

I think it is Nitrogen, because about 70% of our air is made of Nitrogen, so it would be harmless if it is in our air, I think Argon is harmless too, but it probably is Nitrogen.

By: jmac23

jmac23 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:33:15 +0000

wow it is suppose to be funny not accurate i think it is funny and im going to save this pic i dont know whats wrong with everyone else.

By: ʇnɥʍlʍɐl

ʇnɥʍlʍɐl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:11 +0000

Yeah, very true. but if anything it just makes me mad

By: r3d34r

r3d34r — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:25:19 +0000

Yeah, don’t they put nitrogen (or some other gas) in it?

By: Amazing

Amazing — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:22:49 +0000

Not air… that would make them go stale.

By: Purzel

Purzel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:21:18 +0000

This Graph is wrong if you compare masses.
Obviously the author didn’t leave a note which measure unit he used for his researches.

By: mamarosa

mamarosa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:20:05 +0000

If you think of it as buying a bag of air, you might be pleasantly surprised to find some chips in there.

By: FMyVirgin

FMyVirgin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:05:18 +0000

GJam.
You just can’t have more than one (good graph a day).

Not very funny.

By: philip

philip — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:02:46 +0000

It’s true, but that doesn’t mean it’s funny.