- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English95•1 month ago
Its design took 2 years and required the use of supercomputers
[citation needed]
- zerakith ( @zerakith@lemmy.ml ) English46•1 month ago
It is quite hard to track down but here’s it being reported by the head of modelling at P&G in 2006
https://www.hpcwire.com/2006/05/05/high_performance_potato_chips/
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English28•1 month ago
[Sincere] Thanks a lot!
- Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) English12•1 month ago
[Condescending answer]: I am programmed to burn holes in meatbags, master.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English3•1 month ago
Nice reference.
- zerakith ( @zerakith@lemmy.ml ) English17•1 month ago
Though worth saying that the link suggests the computing was used for aerodynamics for ensuring production wouldn’t destroy them not. For the shape as such. I’ve also seem it said that the can is part of that too.
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) English5•1 month ago
Is this real or am I being trolled
- zerakith ( @zerakith@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 month ago
I’m pretty sure it’s real. I met someone once who worked in materials research for food and they said that modelling was big there because the scope for experimentation is more limited. In materials for construction where they wanted to change a property they could play around with adding new additives and seeing what happens. For food though you can’t add anything beyond a limited set of chemicals that already have approval from the various agencies* and therefore they look at trying to fine tune in other ways.
So for chocolate, for example, they control lots of material properties by very careful control of temperature and pressure as it solidifies. This is why if chocolate melts and resolidifies you see the white bits of milk that don’t remain within the materia.
*Okay you can add a new chemical but that means a time frame of over a decade to then get approval. I think the number of chemicals that’s happened to is very very small and that’s partly because the innovation framework of capitalism is very short term.
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 35•1 month ago
wonder what kinda of supercomputer they used in 1968
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English14•1 month ago
A Cray would be my guess. Possibly even a CDC 7600 running at a whopping 36 MHz if they were really on the bleeding edge (it came out that same year).
- blind3rdeye ( @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ) English33•1 month ago
With the stuff about ‘super computers’, this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.
- LNRDrone ( @LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz ) English28•1 month ago
Somehow they also designed them so the tube goes stale roughly 2 minutes after opening it. Also the lovely texture reminiscent of sawdust. Truly a marvel of engineering.
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English3•1 month ago
“Once you pop you can’t stop” is actually a warning about this
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) English21•1 month ago
Personally, it always decreased satisfaction that it breaks unpredictably, because I’d get crumbs everywhere. In particular, the shape also hinders putting them far enough into your mouth to catch the crumbs.
Definitely prefer chips which are just sliced potatoes. Them being a naturally grown structure makes them unpredictable enough for my taste.- adr1an ( @anzo@programming.dev ) English13•1 month ago
I really thought everyone was eating them entirely and in stacks of 5 …
- Transporter Room 3 ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) English8•1 month ago
No, the shape hinders putting the far enough into your mouth. Luckily, I’ve got a big one.
Wait…
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) English7•1 month ago
They should be smaller though, so they fit in one piece into the mouth withouth hurting yourself.
- Thorry84 ( @Thorry84@feddit.nl ) English9•1 month ago
Huh? I can very easily fit an entire Pringle in my mouth. And I don’t think I have that big of a mouth actually. They also don’t have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces, so I can eat it without worrying about cutting the inside of my mouth.
I don’t really like what this says about me.
- dmention7 ( @dmention7@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
> They also don’t have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces,
This man has never been within 10 meters of a IRL pringle.
- Thorry84 ( @Thorry84@feddit.nl ) English2•1 month ago
I ate an entire can just today
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.earth ) 5•1 month ago
you’re not supposed to eat the can
- Thorry84 ( @Thorry84@feddit.nl ) English2•1 month ago
You can’t tell me what to do, you’re not even my real dad! Nom nom nom
- SuspiciousCatThing ( @SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social ) English6•1 month ago
Bro I can fit a stack of Pringles in my mouth.
- KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•1 month ago
They’ve suffered shrinkflation in my home country and they’re much smaller.
- ReeferPirate ( @ReeferPirate@lemy.lol ) English4•1 month ago
I had read that they create downforce so they stay put on a conveyor
- xthexder ( @xthexder@l.sw0.com ) English10•1 month ago
That actually makes way more sense why a supercomputer was involved. (Keeping in mind, our phones are likely more powerful than what they are talking about)
Edit: Oh, it’s worse than I thought. The CRAY-1 supercomputer is 4.5x slower than a Raspberry Pi.
- sundray ( @sundray@lemmus.org ) English4•1 month ago
I remember reading somewhere that they also deliberately put different amounts of flavorant on each side of the chip so that you can choose to have more or less flavor intensity based on which side you place against your tongue.
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
But they couldn’t make them taste good. Just vut some potatoes you dorks.
- Pringles ( @Pringles@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
You’re goddamn right!
- Angel Mountain ( @angelmountain@feddit.nl ) English1•1 month ago
And I still don’t like the shape. I can’t bite in it properly.
- drolex ( @drolex@sopuli.xyz ) English1•1 month ago
self-centering […] easy to stack up
What is this supposed to mean?
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 month ago
I can’t really think of a better example, but well, if you stack half-cylinders like these:
…they can’t be off-center in the direction that they’re rounded, because gravity + their shape pulls them towards the center.And well, this saddle shape is rounded in two directions, so it pulls towards the center in both directions.
It’s also better than a parabolic/lens shape, because while that can’t either move sideways, it doesn’t counteract angular movement, so the stack would still bend and fall.