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[quote]Frito-Lay is pulling their Sun Chips 100% Compostable bags after receiving "consumers' feedback about the bag's noise level." Well, since they are louder than a combat jet, I'm not surprised. Here's why:
[quote]Hi, Heidi,
Thank you for contacting Frito-Lay to share your thoughts about the SunChips compostable package.
Frito-Lay is taking steps to improve the SunChips 100% compostable packaging launched in early 2010. The new steps help address consumers' feedback about the bag's noise level, while continuing to build on the environmental benefits.
While Frito-Lay works to develop a next-generation compostable package, SunChips Original snacks will remain in the current 100% compostable package, while the other SunChips flavors will be transitioned back to their traditional packaging. Once the improved compostable bag is ready, it will be featured in the SunChips Original flavor, allowing Frito-Lay to monitor consumers' response.
As with many leading-edge technologies, there is an ongoing process of improvement and refinement. We are confident the approach we are taking will allow us to continue our sustainability progress, while also showing our consumers that we are committed to responding to their needs and preferences.
Best regards,
Frito-Lay Consumer Affairs
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I tried the bag the other day. Indeed, it was really loud, but not that loud in the middle of a noisy deli. Maybe Frito-Lay just wants to avoid any potential lawsuits from people claiming they got their hearing damaged by the bag crackling.
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Finally, I can have a conversation when I am eating again!
Damn, I love those bags. I was eating lunch and someone I didn't want to talk to showed up and I teared open a bag and enjoyed.
I never heard them that loud.
Oh thank god, those made the most horrid sound every time you did anything with the bag.
Louder than jets?
Waffle?
Very good! I didn't like replacing windows and getting an ear implant after using those bags.
What pussies.
Complaining because the fucking bag is too loud when you open it. Come on.
[quote=zeketwo;25278040]fuck environmentally-friendly products, [I]they're slightly annoying[/I][/quote]
WHAT? I'M SORRY, YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP. I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY BAG OF SUNCHIPS.
yep
I want to be eating these at a house party and see people's reactions when my chips are louder than the music.
I wonder what would happen if you blew the bag up with air and popped it.
I saw these at a store just the other day, I picked it up and actually laughed out loud at how ridiculous it sounded, the slightest touch sounds like someone taking a bat to a mirror.
[QUOTE=D4vils Buddy;25278204]I wonder what would happen if you blew the bag up with air and popped it.[/QUOTE]
Damnit. Now I want to know
Aww, I'm gonna miss those. They were hilarious to open just because of the sheer amount of noise they make.
NNNOOOOOOOOOO!!! Those were the best!
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fuck the earth, my precious ears!
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;25278142]Very good! I didn't like replacing windows and getting an ear implant after using those bags.[/QUOTE]
how dare those whole-wheat jackoffs offend mine delicate sensitivities
A few weeks ago, everyone in my office had Sunchips.
Fifteen patients submitted grievances.
Did they actually test to see how loud these bags were in development?
AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE BAGS ARE ABLE TO DECOMPOSE WITHIN 14 WEEKS!
THIS DESIGN IS APPROVED!
Ah man, fuck these things. Trying to get a late-night snack was a bitch if I didn't wanna wake anyone up.
Thanks god.
I like the sound the bag makes when I open it.
I hated these, you'd move them around and you couldn't hear anything until you stopped.
But he fondled the bag with more effort, just like TH89 fondles garry's sack to get unbanned after he goes on a ban spree.
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I was sitting here just last night, my roommate sleeping less than ten feet away, and I thought to myself, "Man, I could really go for some SunChips."
The bag was already opened, but rolled up. I stared at the fucking thing for about five minutes, knowing that even [i]looking[/i] at it too hard might cause it to voice its crinkly scream. Gingerly, I gripped each corner of the bag, my fingers provoking a hellacious [i]cRRsisiP[/i] as they settled on the material. I lifted it. Upside down. The bag exploded open, spilling hundreds of sunchips on the floor, reaching sound levels only found at the heart of firing ranges.
"[b]MOTHERFUCKER[/b]," I screamed.
This is really stupid.
the material is too low quality to recycle and probably doesn't have much of a chance to degrade in a landfill (as shit piles on, less sunlight and oxygen means bacteria wont survive in the depths of the trash) think how one would aerate a compost pile to help the process, except this aeration doesn't happen in landfills.
this is if one who eats sunchips tosses it out like normal trash. one could compost these bags in their own yard but that won't always happen
[QUOTE]"I bought a bunch of bags for our last camping trip. Got lost in the woods, crinkled my bag of chips. My friends crinkled the other bag in response and 10 minutes later, through the use of Sun Chip bag communication I found my camp site."[/QUOTE]
that's not a bad use
Well fuck, I don't blame them if it's louder than a jet engine - that's as loud as gunfire. I.E. loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage.
/sarcasm
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