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Tuesday, August 31. 2010

Loudest Chip Bag

Luckily I forgot to bring the bag of Sun Chips I bought when I took the boys to Petco for Sunday's ball game. It is the loudest, most annoying food packaging I've ever heard. The new Sun Chips packaging is biodegradable and compostable. Great for the environment. Terrible for my ears, or anyone else's, at 95 decibils. That's the sound level at which "sustained exposure may result in hearing loss." Not to mention a bop in the nose from someone in a seat nearby. My wife was sleeping in the next room, after dental surgery, and was just woken by my opening the bag.



On the other hand, I may now have an excuse for not answering my wife's questions. Sales have fallen since introduction of the new bag. Maybe a new ad campaign for "Did you say something, honey?" will revive sales. 

Posted by Bruce Kesler in Our Essays at 19:18 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Compostable? Not hardly. I tried.
#1 Earth Girl (Link) on 2010-08-31 19:58 (Reply)
Use your Bowie knife or switchblade to open the bag. That should reduce nose-bopping from those in neighboring seats.
#2 Steve in CT on 2010-08-31 20:29 (Reply)
Goes to show you - I never knew there was new packaging.
#3 Tom Francis on 2010-08-31 21:22 (Reply)
The only product complaint I have ever registered was the Sun Chips bag. It's like an old Dilbert cartoon where the goal was to generate as much discomfort for the customer as possible.
#4 BCB on 2010-08-31 22:40 (Reply)
I have to agree with the noisy bag thing. I couldn't believe how loud it was. We threw the bag into our compost bin in the back yard to see if it really does compost. Check back in with you next year.
#5 Sam on 2010-09-01 17:29 (Reply)
This has to be among the most amazing, undiscovered forms of noise pollution!! does make some sense though...why does the packaging have to make so much noise? I presume it is some way of announcing it to the whole world that you are on the verge of eating some serious, artery-clogging stuff.
#6 anubhav kapoor (Link) on 2010-09-11 09:17 (Reply)

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