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
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.
am i being punkd are you punkding me
You're not being punked dude. Creamed corn is a thing, you don't strain it, and when you buy a can of it the can is full. This was a swing and a miss.
youre not making any sense AT ALL
I recommend you google creamed corn and make sure it is what you think it is. If that doesn't clear things up then I have to assume you're trolling now.
im so fucking sick of this
What doesn't make sense?
why wouldnt you strain it dont you strain your peas and stuff
FULL OF WASTED SPACE okay i get it the realist says the glass isnt half full its all the way full because its full of 50% water and 50% air but thats just semantics
what
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):
putting all that wasted space in between the corns because of corn subsidies
uh source please
Because then it won't be creamed.
Yes, exactly. The goo isn’t wasted space, it’s just as much part of the creamed corn as the whole kernels.
I’m pretty sure that OP is just messing around but it’s actually fun to think about.
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.
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%).
They mean 100% nitrogen. If they just filled chip bags with regular air they would be more sensitive to pressure changes.
It’s got less oxygen and moisture in it so that bacteria doesn’t have the energy to breed and spoil the contents.
even more so when you open the bag
Government trying to take away our cornographic material
It’s creamed corn, not corned cream. Creamed is the first ingredient. One could argue that the corn is stealing space from the creamed.
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.
a can doesnt need cushion liquid because cans are hard but cans of creamed corn are mostly liquid and i think its a scam
Why are you straining it? It's like saying your bottle of fresh orange juice has hardly any pulp after you strain it.
what the fuck are you talking about
You need to get back in the shower to practice thinking.
Maybe creamed corn is different where you are, but the creamed part is a sauce that goes with the corn. It's meant to be eaten with the corn and not supposed to be discarded, so I don't know why you're straining it.
Buying creamed corn and straining it to get corn is like buying salsa and straining it to get diced tomatoes
i want the creamed corns but i just dont want all that liquid
Milk is the real scam. Once I strain it there is basically nothing left. Unless you let it mature like a fine wine.
time makes fools of us all
Are you Mongolian? Feels like you're Mongolian....
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?
well the libs tried to steal it when i was just a child but they only got away with the tip
My sister and I used to play the just the tip game.
sounds like a slippery slope
Oh it was slippery but it wasn’t a slope.
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
strain?
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:
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.