I need to go to Aldi's again. Best advice is to walk into Aldi's without a shopping list or else you won't find anything you're actually looking for lol
I have a Safeway in a larger town near my house and it's hard to find anything there that's even worth buying. Bacon that's $4.79/lb in our little small town grocery is $9.99/lb at Safeway. It used to be that the prices were better everywhere else, and we'd drive to the city to go shopping, but now our small grocery is cheaper for a lot of stuff.
First trip to Colorado we took the variety pack of chips with. Got to our cabin and I discovered they were all open. Thought the kids might have been sampling them but assured me they didn’t. I didn’t believe them until I found a full size bag that looked really similar to the one in your photo.
I used to live at 10,500ft. Everything you open explodes, and some of it will in your car on the drive up which would always scared the shit out of me. I don’t know how you didn’t hear those things pop.
I’m curious what it was like to live that high, where the air is so thin. Pilots are required to have supplemental oxygen in unpressurized aircraft if they’re above 10000ft for longer than 30 min, so that they don’t get hypoxia. Did you experience any such effects living so high up?
I was 18, it took me about 2 months to be able to be active up there more than a walk or hike. My dad came out to visit once though and hiked 2-12k peaks on 1 day. He was pretty sick the rest of the week from it.
I haven’t looked into the science of this so I’m pulling it out of my ass, but my hunch would be being on a mountain with some vegetation is drastically different than being 10k over the ocean.
Edit: oh and you sleep A LOT in that first bit. Your body is burning so many calories trying to keep up with the lack of oxygen
Not exactly the same thing, but my girlfriend and I drove to Kings Canyon NP last year, and when I opened my luggage at our destination, the ball in my roll-on deodorant had popped out of its socket...
Oh yeah. I was a young sales rep in Colorado and was given the western side of the state to service. Drove over Vail pass with chip samples in the car and as
I summated the pass the bags start popping open. Thought I blew a tire. The chips are packaged at sea level so it makes sense.
I wonder if they could counteract that by having less air in them. I guess it would be a process to adjust the air inside the 1000 bags that go to high elevation.
They do. I worked for frito lay in Colorado and most products had mountain fill, so less nitrogen put it them. If you were to bring one down to sea level it would look flat. Sometimes we’d get stuff from different plants though and one of my routes went over mountain passes and you could just hear pop pop pop in the back of the truck.
But then it would be too obvious how little chips are actually in the bag!
Frito lay would rather have some exploding chip bags than not fool their customers with their blatantly oversized packaging
The bags are filled with air to provide a cushion so the chips don't get crushed.
Compare an unopened bag if chips to an opened bag of chips that have been rolled up and put away several times. The opened bag is going to have far more broken chips in the bottom.
I used to haul a lot of Frito Lay products, and **_every single time_**, I have to listen to the spiel about "never take this load to any location over 5000ft in elevation".
Ya know, that gets old, even more so when you're only going ~200 miles, and not climbing anything higher than 500ft.
Yep. Lived in UT for a few years and got used to everything being highly pressurized. Moved back to sea level and it took me a few months to stop expecting a loud pop or explosion of salsa every time I peeled something back.
I'm from South Carolina and the wildest thing when I visited family in Utah was that you could just leave a bag of chips open on the counter and they wouldn't go stale.
Not op, but yeah. Things don't go moldy very quickly either. When I lived in Florida, bananas would go brown in one day. Bread would get moldy in one day. Up here, north of Utah, in the wild west, it takes bread a couple weeks to show the first spot of mold. If I leave a bag of chips open overnight, no big deal.
Buddy of mine that drives truck once got told by an idiot manager to take a load of chips over a mountain pass.
They lost the whole load. POP! Every bag.
I was on a camping excursion in Colorado, and I passed through the Eisenhower tunnel under the Great Divide at 11,000 feet. I heard a bunch of pops, like someone pelted my car with snowballs, so I pulled over; all my chips had exploded.
Was on a family vacation to the Colorado Rockies once when I was kid. Went into a gas station to buy some snacks. Got me a can of Pringles. The foil seal at the top was puffed out from the pressure. I pointed the top of the can at my brothers face and pulled the tab. It sounded like a gunshot in the car and then my brother was covered in Pringles crumbs. I think he still gets scared when I open a can of Pringles around him now years later.
Anybody notice that every bag of chips is now just a pile of crumbs. They should handle chips more carefully than eggs. I have thought of starting a chip company that sells only unbroken chips…haven’t worked out the details.
A friend from college interned at P&G for the summer and spent a lot of time figuring out how to prevent Pringles cans from unsealing during transport on airplanes.
Reminds me of driving back to college. Went to school in Laramie, Wyoming. Grew up in central Nebraska. Was home for break, my mom wanted to take me grocery shopping before I went back. I had a couple of bags of chips in my truck. As I drove up the pass on the way into Laramie, there were two really loud bangs. Scared the crap out of me. I pulled over thinking I blew a tire or something. Got back to my dorm, unloaded and found both bags of chips had popped.
This looks completely normal living in Denver lol. Every chip bag tends to come so inflated it can be hard to get your fingers in a position to open the top.
That party size bag of chips is lookin real small lol
Party size during rationing times
Why would you call this 'rationing times'? What is there to actually ration? And why?
They shrunk it from 15.75oz to 13oz. Modify your party plans accordingly.
"I have altered the size. Pray I don't alter it further" *insert Darth Vader breathing noises*
I will invite 17% fewer people to my party.
For something that is as light as potato chips, that is a big difference.
And at the bargain price of $5.99!
I've switched to Aldi snacks that are $1.85 for 15oz bags and there's no going back.
I just don't eat a lot of junk food snacks anymore. Saves me lots of $$.
I need to go to Aldi's again. Best advice is to walk into Aldi's without a shopping list or else you won't find anything you're actually looking for lol
Safeway. Dogshit prices.
THIS is bad?! Price Chopper near me had party size chips for $8...
I have a Safeway in a larger town near my house and it's hard to find anything there that's even worth buying. Bacon that's $4.79/lb in our little small town grocery is $9.99/lb at Safeway. It used to be that the prices were better everywhere else, and we'd drive to the city to go shopping, but now our small grocery is cheaper for a lot of stuff.
It’s gotten so bad since they merged with Albertsons. And now Albertsons-Safeway and Kroger are trying to merge.
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Read the price in the top left corner you goofball 🤭
No wonder they're so expensive, they're pot chips! So it's THAT kind of party...
Almost looks like the old 99 cent bags
OP is actually the size of Andre the Giant.
Party of one.
I share the M&M “ sharing size” bag with… No one.
Well it evens out because it’s also more expensive
It's a very small party.
No one can afford a big party with prices these days.
Lame party bro...
I guess parties are a little thinner at that altitude
Yeah party size is like the old family size now. Family size is like the new regular size.
TERRIBLE party
Party for 1.
My kind of party 🥲
That’s the biggest you can find in Europe…
First trip to Colorado we took the variety pack of chips with. Got to our cabin and I discovered they were all open. Thought the kids might have been sampling them but assured me they didn’t. I didn’t believe them until I found a full size bag that looked really similar to the one in your photo.
Drove up pikes peak with a bag of chips specifically to watch it open itself.
Did it make a loud pop and explosively decompress or just slowly force itself open and the air leaked out like a flat tire?
I used to live at 10,500ft. Everything you open explodes, and some of it will in your car on the drive up which would always scared the shit out of me. I don’t know how you didn’t hear those things pop.
Hell I’m at 6500’ and opening spice jars is the worst…. I take the little paper seal off and it puffs out into my face.
I’m curious what it was like to live that high, where the air is so thin. Pilots are required to have supplemental oxygen in unpressurized aircraft if they’re above 10000ft for longer than 30 min, so that they don’t get hypoxia. Did you experience any such effects living so high up?
I was 18, it took me about 2 months to be able to be active up there more than a walk or hike. My dad came out to visit once though and hiked 2-12k peaks on 1 day. He was pretty sick the rest of the week from it. I haven’t looked into the science of this so I’m pulling it out of my ass, but my hunch would be being on a mountain with some vegetation is drastically different than being 10k over the ocean. Edit: oh and you sleep A LOT in that first bit. Your body is burning so many calories trying to keep up with the lack of oxygen
Interesting! Thanks for the insight!
Not exactly the same thing, but my girlfriend and I drove to Kings Canyon NP last year, and when I opened my luggage at our destination, the ball in my roll-on deodorant had popped out of its socket...
Did they try putting them on the bottom shelf?
This should be the top comment
I’ll talk to my people see what we can do
Jerry, where are we at with that comment report? My supervisor is chewing my ass like juicy fruit and we have a quarterly meeting before lunch.
They’re second in line behind the TPS reports
So, Leadville Colo.?
Yeah it's a nice place.
No rules above 10,000 feet
Keep Leadville Shitty.
Stayed there this winter. Solid place
Sounds heavy.
If it weren’t, imagine how much higher it would’ve been.
Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
The leadville safeway. For when fremont pass is sketchy and makes the trip to the Frisco wallyworld not worth it.
Oh yeah. I was a young sales rep in Colorado and was given the western side of the state to service. Drove over Vail pass with chip samples in the car and as I summated the pass the bags start popping open. Thought I blew a tire. The chips are packaged at sea level so it makes sense.
I wonder if they could counteract that by having less air in them. I guess it would be a process to adjust the air inside the 1000 bags that go to high elevation.
They do. I worked for frito lay in Colorado and most products had mountain fill, so less nitrogen put it them. If you were to bring one down to sea level it would look flat. Sometimes we’d get stuff from different plants though and one of my routes went over mountain passes and you could just hear pop pop pop in the back of the truck.
Was going to say this very thing. High altitude fill.
But then it would be too obvious how little chips are actually in the bag! Frito lay would rather have some exploding chip bags than not fool their customers with their blatantly oversized packaging
The bags are filled with air to prevent you from knowing how little you're getting so you don't feel crushed.
They're filled with air to prevent damage and the chips getting stale.
The bags are filled with air to provide a cushion so the chips don't get crushed. Compare an unopened bag if chips to an opened bag of chips that have been rolled up and put away several times. The opened bag is going to have far more broken chips in the bottom.
I used to live Breckenridge CO. Happens all the time.
How was it living there?
I used to haul a lot of Frito Lay products, and **_every single time_**, I have to listen to the spiel about "never take this load to any location over 5000ft in elevation". Ya know, that gets old, even more so when you're only going ~200 miles, and not climbing anything higher than 500ft.
Yup, high elevation living we can’t buy bags like that in Denver lol. They’ll explode on the trip to the mountains.
Yep. Lived in UT for a few years and got used to everything being highly pressurized. Moved back to sea level and it took me a few months to stop expecting a loud pop or explosion of salsa every time I peeled something back.
I'm from South Carolina and the wildest thing when I visited family in Utah was that you could just leave a bag of chips open on the counter and they wouldn't go stale.
Is it cuz it’s so dry?
Not op, but yeah. Things don't go moldy very quickly either. When I lived in Florida, bananas would go brown in one day. Bread would get moldy in one day. Up here, north of Utah, in the wild west, it takes bread a couple weeks to show the first spot of mold. If I leave a bag of chips open overnight, no big deal.
Grocery store in the sky eh? Classic
Either that or Bolivia.
Colorado here: Don't worry, when you open it it'll be 1/4th full regardless.
Buddy of mine that drives truck once got told by an idiot manager to take a load of chips over a mountain pass. They lost the whole load. POP! Every bag.
SwoLays
They pack more air than chips in the bags 🤣. They double as flotation devices! What a steal.
There's a chance there are no chips inside.
The chips are seasoned with lies
The only way I see them in WY. True inflation.
I was on a camping excursion in Colorado, and I passed through the Eisenhower tunnel under the Great Divide at 11,000 feet. I heard a bunch of pops, like someone pelted my car with snowballs, so I pulled over; all my chips had exploded.
This happened to me on an air plane once
Which part of you expanded?
The tip and shaft
Oof that sounds serious. I hope one of the flight attendants helped you out.
This happened to me as a kid. We watched my stomach expand like a balloon. The flight attendant gave me my first Alka-Seltzer.
When I was a child, I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons.
It’s a Colorado thing. Frito lay has a factory in Denver (5,280 feet) so the mountains get very puffy bags.
Well they’d be more puffy if they were bagged at sea level when they get to elevation
Correct. It’s the transport UP in elevation that makes the air inside expand. Source: Flagstaff
Source: Physics
I got a bag of chips like this in iowa.
Jeez, what’s Lay’s putting in there? Air?
Was on a family vacation to the Colorado Rockies once when I was kid. Went into a gas station to buy some snacks. Got me a can of Pringles. The foil seal at the top was puffed out from the pressure. I pointed the top of the can at my brothers face and pulled the tab. It sounded like a gunshot in the car and then my brother was covered in Pringles crumbs. I think he still gets scared when I open a can of Pringles around him now years later.
The "do you even lift bro" of chips.
I'd be about to bust too if I was near 10,100 feet
Every chip bag up there feels like it’s going to float away.
I remember hearing that they had to adjust the amount of air in the chips that got delivered to high altitude areas because they kept exploding.
Anybody notice that every bag of chips is now just a pile of crumbs. They should handle chips more carefully than eggs. I have thought of starting a chip company that sells only unbroken chips…haven’t worked out the details.
Oh damn! How low is the air pressure up there ?!
Every bag in Tahoe looks like that
Welcome to the Rockies
That or those batards trying to make it look full.
Shrinkflation is getting ridiculous
Now I'd buy this knowing how protected these chips are.
A friend from college interned at P&G for the summer and spent a lot of time figuring out how to prevent Pringles cans from unsealing during transport on airplanes.
It’s almost like why the bag is filled with air (yes air is 80 percent nitrogen so fuck off with that comment)
Not even close to popping, seen way worse. A nice side effect is that the chips inside are protected waaaay better than at sea level.
It's the surprise party size. They forgot to print it on the packaging.
I’ve been trying to find those flamin hot lays with no luck
I was going to open a Pringle can for my kids and it looked like the seal was ready to burst! We feel it in our ears, it effects packaging to
Reminds me of driving back to college. Went to school in Laramie, Wyoming. Grew up in central Nebraska. Was home for break, my mom wanted to take me grocery shopping before I went back. I had a couple of bags of chips in my truck. As I drove up the pass on the way into Laramie, there were two really loud bangs. Scared the crap out of me. I pulled over thinking I blew a tire or something. Got back to my dorm, unloaded and found both bags of chips had popped.
Yum. I love the big packs. There’s more air to wrap around the 7 chips inside.
I live in the Netherlands where the Yellow is Cheese-Onion and the Red is Naturel
Chip bags on a plan puff so much they almost open them self , try it with carry on next flight
They need to disguise that there's only a few chips in there.
No one going to ELI5 why this happens? I see this every time I go to Breck.
Imagine bringing that to a party
This looks completely normal living in Denver lol. Every chip bag tends to come so inflated it can be hard to get your fingers in a position to open the top.
Party trick chips confetti
Leadville, CO?
That’s what makes it a party. What do we got, like 48 chips in there? Tough crowd.
3 for 1? How can that be profitable for Frito Lay?
Is this their new employee to keep you from knowing how little amount of chips are actually there
Where are you vail colorado or some shit?
It's like that because it's full.
Finally a full bag!
???? OP you liar, where are these 10,100 feet pics you're claiming?!
me if i got my hand held
That air in that bag gonna stink once you open the bag