Food Theory: Are Doritos a RIP OFF?
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Published 2021-06-12
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Have you ever opened a bag of chips and thoughts, why is there so much empty space? Did I just pay for mostly air with a side of chips? You are not alone! For years, I've thought I was getting ripped off with each delicious bag of chips. Today, I want to find out if that is true and I am starting with the biggest culprit of them all - Doritos!
Disclaimer: At 11:56, the Breakage Rates for the More Chips Bag and the Average Bag are accidentally swapped; the More Chips Bag Breakage Rate is actually 79.8%, and the Average Bag Breakage Rate is 74.9%.
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
Editor: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi, Forrest Lee, and Koen Verhagen
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman
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All Comments (21)
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Hey Theorists! In the video at 11:56, the Breakage Rates for the More Chips Bag and the Average Bag are accidentally swapped; the More Chips Bag Breakage Rate is actually 79.8%, and the Average Bag Breakage Rate is 74.9%. Sorry for the mix up!
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I'm a Packaging Engineer and I went to school for packaging science. I'm glad to see your testing confirmed the stuff I paid a ton money for, to learn at Michigan State University.
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Pringle’s with like a 99% unbroken rate: pathetic
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I think what this tells me is I'd rather have a lot of smaller doritos that can be packed tighter together (with a more sturdy casing maybe like pringles) than the unoptimized, fragile crushable mess we get
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I thought I figured it out when I was trying to have off brand Fritos and couldn’t open the bag because it was filled to the brim. I was like “oh they just do it for convenience”
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Shout outs to Pringles for never selling air
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“So bad at storage” *sad Pringle sounds
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I'd rather have a bag completely full of broken Doritos than a bag less than quarter full of whole Doritos that got broken during shipping
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3:31 every introvert be like
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Can we take a moment to appreciate that Pringles has full cans 100% of the time
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Doritos to Food Theorist: "Yes, we already did these experiments."
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"This product is sold by weight, not by volume" is stated right on the package, or at least it used to be.
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Something that the intro just made me think of that I think would be a great @foodtheory episode is how many bags of Doritos, which are 16% chip and 84% air each, must one person consume in order to eat a bag of Doritos that is 100% chip and 0% air?
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Not a thing on Game Theory, Film Theory or Food Theory has been as scary as watching MatPat reaching for Doritos with a second left hand...
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My store manager at target would always say “you can’t sell air,” I worked in the electronics department where we had an air duster a few aisles away and a brisk walk away from the chip aisle lol
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Shoutouts to Utz's Cheese Ball jars for stuffing maximum value into one jar.
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Hence why I love Pringles. Definitely not in mash potato form, but chip form. They have perfect packaging, shape and size.
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Doritos should put this link on their chip bags saying why there’s so much air.
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"You cant sell air" Me: * Remembers Dehydrated Water *
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Wait that's so true. I never questioned why doritos go bad quick inside the bag when I assumed it was air
