Watching a 1980s movie and chip bags in the grocery stores

[itsrobert]

look way fuller than they are today.

Movie: Raising Arizona

Same chip bag size, but way fuller than they are today.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. "Sold by weight. Contents may settle. You're getting less."

[a kennedy]

10. and it's pumped with air....

half the bag is air.

[HereSince1628]

11. The industry rationale for all the air is it protects against breakage

that results from crushing. The air arguably provides resistance to bags being crushed during shipping and handling.

Really. It's a great cover story.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. The only good Nicholas Cage movie. n/t

[liberalmuse]

3. "Moonstruck"

I loved him in that.

[Matariki]

4. Leaving Las Vegas was really good

and Face Off directed by John Woo and Wild at Heart by David Lynch were also good.

So there.

[NBachers]

5. Hey, what about "Drive Angry?"

[Jamaal510]

6. Getting less bang for my buck. eom

[Nine]

7. Everything is smaller and cheaper these days.

If you bake, lots of ingredients come in smaller sizes than they used to. But it's everything. You know companies have it down to a science how much they can "water down the drinks," so to speak, before customers will riot. Younger shoppers don't even remember that this is not how things always were.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. A "pound" of coffee now weighs 11 -13 Oz.

[phylny]

12. Sugar is now a four-pound bag, not five. N/t

[ananda]

9. I think they're mostly full of air these days.

..

[Capt. Obvious]

13. And the Quarter Pounder with Cheese

weighs less that a 1/4 lb