And nobody talks about candy corn bags being 100% wasted space.
Once you discard all the inedible garbage you are left with nothing at all.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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I hate having to repeat this over & over, but chip bags are NOT 50% wasted space. They’re 50% larger than their contents, and then filled with 50% air for extra padding, so you don’t get a bag of crumbs.
You pay for the weight of the chips in the bag, not the amount of fullness.
my point is that everyone talks about that but no one talks about the same thing happening with cans of creamed corn despite cans being sturdy enough to not need padding
I have the same problem with orange juice, there's hardly any orange in it. It's like the pork in Pork N Beans.
Genuinely curious: why are you straining creamed corn? If you want corn kernels, why not buy that instead?
That's what I'm thinking. That's like buying buttermilk and complaining that there's only half a stick of butter in it after you strain it!
what
You can buy cans of just corn in water. Those are mostly full of corn, with water filling the space between. Creamed corn is a whole other thing, and while it has some corn kernels in it, it's mostly meant to be eaten as-is or used as-is in a recipe. The liquid in creamed corn is not meant to be discarded.
am i being punkd are you punkding me
You're not being punked dude. Creamed corn is a thing, you don't strain it, and when you buy a can of it the can is full. This was a swing and a miss.
Hey are you the real Chad McTruth or some half dicked imposter trying to ruin His great name?
i cant keep track anymore to be honest
Look in you pants is it a full dick or a half dick?
well the libs tried to steal it when i was just a child but they only got away with the tip
My sister and I used to play the just the tip game.
sounds like a slippery slope
Oh it was slippery but it wasn’t a slope.
I am desperately curious about the life that leads up to this question
The first mistake is eating creamed corn
here i actually wrote about it https://lemmy.world/post/24251140
It’s glorious
I totally ate the onion (truthion?) on this showerthought lmao
Wait until you hear about atoms.
wow this goes deeper than i ever thought possible
It’s creamed corn, not corned cream. Creamed is the first ingredient. One could argue that the corn is stealing space from the creamed.
Government trying to take away our cornographic material
I didn't know KenM was on the Fediverse!
Keep working at it and you’ll get there as a satire artist one of these days
Chip bags have all that air in them, so the chips don't get crushed as easily.
if the chips has such a simple explanation then how come everyone talks about that and no one questions why cans of creamed corn have all that wasted space this is what im getting at i think its being surpressed
I have personally never opened a can of creamed corn, so this whole post is new information for me. The chips thing though...that was solved decades ago. Not sure why the confusion persists.
a can doesnt need cushion liquid because cans are hard but cans of creamed corn are mostly liquid and i think its a scam
Why are you straining it? It's like saying your bottle of fresh orange juice has hardly any pulp after you strain it.
what the fuck are you talking about
You need to get back in the shower to practice thinking.
Maybe creamed corn is different where you are, but the creamed part is a sauce that goes with the corn. It's meant to be eaten with the corn and not supposed to be discarded, so I don't know why you're straining it.
You think that's bad try some cream of mushroom. I swear some cans didnt even have anything in them after straining
You need to open up the can and put it on a shelf in a dark cabinet for a few weeks first. Rookie mistake.
It's the demo-rats fault. They are eating all the cream and just leaving corn in the can.