Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 27, 2023

And not the chip companies.

Somebody is clueless…………….

You can’t tell till you get home that the potato chips look like the stockers were playing soccer with the bags before putting them on the shelf.

The potato chips do that themselves. They must be sentient!

Law of Gravitational forces?

It’s the war of the chips! In the scramble to get to the top of the pack and be eaten while fresh, they little care who gets trampled and broken on the way…

If you want more or less unbroken chips, Pringles® or perhaps some equivalent works best. PLUS you can easily stack several to get a massive crunch.

On the other hand, if you want to oven-fry/bake chicken, coating them with crushed potato chips is an excellent strategy.

PS: I mostly eat “cheese worms” which these days are mostly Cheetos®. They mostly don’t break in the bag.

Somebody is not thinking about time and space.

One of the characters admits it a little!

Brits are wondering where’s this kid buying big bags of broken French fries?

Underwear and socks are sold in resealable bags. Why aren’t potato chips?

Jef Mallett is not thinking enough..,

These days it seems lots of stock gets rough handling. Cereal or other food boxes with crushed corners or cans dented at the seal or microwave meals that are not fully sealed, etc. Also received a number of deliveries from you know who that were damaged in some way and the were obviously recycled returns. [Eventually that return policy will tighten up and returns will be more difficult.]

Thought for a while that maybe my memories needed retuning, but friends have noted the same problems. Life is becoming more adjusting to lower quality than improving it.

Those big unbroken chips are not the easiest things to find.

If you want the best tasting, unbroken chips, make them yourself. Use the wide side of a box grater. Balsamic vinegar is my favourite topping.

Interesting trivia: When I was a truck driver, we were not allowed to haul loads of Chips and similar across the Rocky Mountains to get from coast to coast, as the bags would burst at high altitudes. There had to be special bags that had less air in them made to be sold at higher locations.

Also, the crumbs at the bottom of the bag of chips are THE BEST PART of the entire bag!

It’s more that the broken chips, being smaller (because they’re broken) are pulled down by gravity through the spaces between the whole chips that the whole chips themselves are too big to fall into.

It’s the same principle that forces you to keep pulling rocks out of your garden year after year.

Hehehe I used to think that until I connected it to the fields in New England where the big rocks show up on top as the smaller ones move down over time

The density of large, curvy unbroken chips is lower than the density of the smaller broken bits, once you take into account the amount of air surrounding each type of chip. Even with Pringles, the smaller, denser bits sink to the bottom.

About ten years ago Caulfield had the perfect nickname, given that the unbroken ones migrate to the top:

“Fibonacchos”

And the bottom is greasy crumbs.