2w ago

everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space

once youve strained it a whole can of creamed corn gives you barely a third of a cup why isnt anyone talking about this

i think it has to do with government corn subsidies

edit you people arent getting it so ive created a diagram

look at all that blue thats wasted space between the creamed corns and it takes up over half the can

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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.
Wait until you hear about atoms.
- wow this goes deeper than i ever thought possible
  
  LLM brain rot in action. No wonder OP is straining creamed corn
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
  
  The cans are sold by weight of the content, not size of the can.
  Other reasons they may be putting the small amount in a larger can (since padding isn’t an issue):
  that’s the size of cans they have on hand from the factory.
  packing/shipping & stacking/displaying that standard can size might be more cost effective.
  They want dupe customers into thinking they’re getting more for their money.
  
  Because then it won't be creamed.
- They are not filled with air, they're typically filled with nitrogen
  
  I was going to say nitrogen but didn’t want to come off as too pedantic.
  
  78% of the air is nitrogen. Stop being a dick.
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 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
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.
Milk is the real scam. Once I strain it there is basically nothing left. Unless you let it mature like a fine wine.
- Are you Mongolian? Feels like you're Mongolian....
- time makes fools of us all
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?
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.
I didn't know KenM was on the Fediverse!
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.
Keep working at it and you’ll get there as a satire artist one of these days
Um, dude thats just creamed corn, the cream is part of the product, it isn't supposed to be 100% corn Just buy canned corn:
strain?
slow clap
Even KenM would envy this.
It's the demo-rats fault. They are eating all the cream and just leaving corn in the can.
I have the same problem with orange juice, there's hardly any orange in it. It's like the pork in Pork N Beans.

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