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Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
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Even KenM would envy this.
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:
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
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.
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 got less oxygen and moisture in it so that bacteria doesn’t have the energy to breed and spoil the contents.
78% of the air is nitrogen. Stop being a dick.
Great, start a chip company and start filling your bags with air.
You'll learn quickly that there's another predominant element in air besides nitrogen (surely it won't matter though, it's only 20.8%).
even more so when you open the bag
They mean 100% nitrogen. If they just filled chip bags with regular air they would be more sensitive to pressure changes.
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
Because then it won't be creamed.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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
Hey are you the real Chad McTruth or some half dicked imposter trying to ruin His great name?
Chip bags have all that air in them, so the chips don't get crushed as easily.
I didn't know KenM was on the Fediverse!