Even when you buy a large bag, 90% of it seems to be air. It always seems they could fit the same amount of actual chips into a much smaller bag.
Tim
Tim
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Originally posted by: waheckelny
Howdy Tim M..
The inert gas in the bag is there to prevent them from going stale and to inflate the bag to act as a cushion during shipping & while on the shelf, otherwise the chips would get crushed and all you would have is a bag of crumbs.
I don't remember from the episode of Unwrapped on Food Newtwork, but they went into the Lays factory to show how the process goes from a truck of potato's being dumped into a storage bin and goes through the whole process. Pretty interesting, now I can see why they are expensive in some parts of the US.
Canada is fun place for chips. On a trip to Kingston, ON I stopped to gas up & get munchies. I tried the Dill favored chips (pretty good) and white cheddar were not bad and the ketchup (not bbq) ones were just nasty.
