October 1st, 2002, 12:55 AM
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Re: OT: I Remember When
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Originally posted by Puke:
well then, now that thats all square:
I remember when you could get a bag of chips (or other salty snacks) and it would actually contain the product as advertised. These days, you pay a large sum of money for fancy packaging and pLastic canisters that are concave in the middle (so they hold less), are filled 60% with air, and the remaining 50% contains either air-puffed snacks or ones that are circular or otherwise hollow in the center so that they fill a spacious volume with a small ammount of 'edible' material.
the same applies to those bic pen-erasers with the hole down the center of them.
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