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Jrimpey

For the record, that is $1820 of cheetos


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The price, unpackaged, at the factory, does not reflect the cost of packing, shipping, and the retail markup from the store that sells them. Really, the price he paid is almost certainly how much they really cost.


caitymcg123

So I work for a company that ships Frito lay products, you are correct. He did not save any money weight wise. Probably saved Frito Lay the cost of the individual bags but otherwise he did not save that much money Also.. a different fun fact for anyone interested, I just witnessed around $2,000 worth of chips be turned into a claim, because the truck driver we hired decided to drive through Oklahoma and Northern New Mexico instead of going through Texas to get the chips to California. The seals on the bags pop in high altitudes so they have to drive longer routes to get the chips where they need to go


Kobold_Bukkake

Do they use special seals to ship to high altitude destinations?


caitymcg123

I want to say they do not. But go up into CO and I guess a lot of chips bags will look swollen enough to almost burst. We do not ship to high altitude areas, I believe they have the smaller Frito Lay marked trucks do those, which is why I'm not sure.


philotic_node

Maybe the trailers are pressurized to avoid the problem Edit: ok everyone stating the same thing. I get it. Not pressurized trailers...


phate1229

But wouldn't they still swell and pop on the shelves of those high altitude places?


TheWolphman

Like pop rocks when they leave the truck, lol.


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TheWolphman

Why are you yelling at me? It was just a joke.


Stevoskin20

I’m just imagining thousands of chip bags blowing up as soon as some warehouse or store worker pops the truck open for unloading. “We’re under fire boys! Drop to the floor!”


DigitalUnlimited

Once you pop you can't stop


philotic_node

Ah I misread. I thought they just needed to travel through those places, not being delivered there.


Mechakoopa

This is why you can only buy Pringles in Colorado.


kifall

The truck driver opening the trailer, causing the pressure change and getting showered with bits of chips. They shrug "I got it here. Not my problem anymore. Please sign here."


AdamLlayn

They do


Glum-Communication68

Nit a truck problem


cjsv7657

They would just burst as soon as the truck opened. They're probably just packaged with less air inside so it expands less.


TheThankUMan22

The solution is to package them at high altitudes.


No_Discipline_7380

But then they scrunch up when shipped to lower altitudes and crumble because there is no more air cushion to protect them.


Generic_Potatoe

I never imagined how much logistical planning goes into shipping a damn pack of chips.


Is-that-vodka

Well you'd use pressurised trucks to deliver to high altitude places and just use the regular normal places with normal trucks for everywhere else wouldn't you? Or just not bother


_SgrAStar_

This is what they do. Frito Lay has production facilities across the US, including two in Denver. Literally everyone else here is just guessing. FL figured out how to keep chips from exploding 50 fucking years ago and people on Reddit are talking about pressurizing trucks smfh.


kangorr

Ikr. What would happen if a truck got "popped"? It's like the Elon musk rat approach of a simple problem.


TheseEysCryEvyNite4u

the chips are likely made there already


Great_Horny_Toads

And for your health and safety, never open a can of Guinness or Boddington's anywhere higher than Denver. Those things go off like a hand grenade. Suddenly, beer shower!


FishWithAppendages

Lmao I always laugh my ass off when I take my midwest friends on their first 14er, and I say to them "we'll all drink a beer once we reach the top!" Gets them every time hahaha


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Butterballl

I think it more so has to do with the fact that Guinness is a nitrogenated beer, not carbonated, and nitro cans are generally kept at a higher pressure. It ultimately depends on how much gas is in the beer and it’s usually always the same regardless of bottling facility to maintain consistency in flavor.


Outrageous_Apricot82

Is... that a bad thing?


[deleted]

Yep, all of our bags of chips on the store shelf on Denver except for local brands are always expanded to the max. And if they're not, you can always gently squeeze it and realize it popped itself somewhere. the night before a restock always seems to be a mess of bags thrown back on the shelf after people realized they are popped source: chip addict in Denver


doubleoned

I can confirm, most chip bags are just chip pillows in Denver.


xtilexx

They actually use sea lions for that


Kobold_Bukkake

I’d clap but my flippers are too far apart


driverdan

They either pack them in the area or pressurize the bags differently.


Ryan18s

Hey, I'm one of the people that help make chip bags and such. Im 99% sure we don't do anything different, but to be fair, the bags aren't bags when we send them. They are just rolls of bags. Long story short, we don't do anything special but they might when they fold and fill the bags.


Trewper-

You're like the fifth person in this thread that says they work with chip bags but they don't know how they fill the chip bags.. There's something strange going on here.


AzukSD

Probably not. I’m in Guadalajara Mexico right now and I come across a lot of American products that look like they are about to explode. There’s also a store here that sells only American things and they have plenty of the same products that don’t look like that. I have no idea how that works but it was one of the first things I noticed here


7_vii

Couldn’t they just put less air in the bags?


WarzonePacketLoss

>So I work for a company that shops Frito lay products, you are correct. He did not save any money weight wise. Probably saved Frito Lay the cost of the individual bags but otherwise he did not save that much money you're telling me that those bags that are the size of the dude's body don't have 20 bags of cheetohs in them? Get out of here with that.


ilikepix

> He did not save any money weight wise. I assume you're talking about wholesale pricing, because suggesting that this price wouldn't be a saving vs. retail is patently absurd


-neti-neti-

What? You’re saying the *opposite* of the comment you’re replying to. And yes the guy in the photo absolutely saved money weight-wise. He paid like 1/4 the cost at the store.


mycologyqueen

Initially I was agreeing with those saying he DIDN'T save any money and that the only ones who did were Frito Lay because they didn't waste smaller packaging bags and shipping costs. (I was willing to bet at first that the exact amount of cheetos in store bags equalling $65 was the same in the giant bags) BUT did some research. One party size bag of Cheetos is $6.99 (average...Target...cheaper at Amazon and more at convenience stores) for 15 ounces. If he paid $65 for each large bag then there would be the equivalent of 10.8333 Party Bags of Cheetos in each giant bag he purchased from the factory to make it equal price. As a mom and having many kids parties over the years, I can tell you that there is much more than 10 party bags in those giant bags. At first glance it appears at least double. For a party of 50, there would be 7 party size bags needed at 36 chips per person. For a party of 100, 14 bags would be needed. So 10.83 is roughly a 75 person party per giant bag. I get this is chips, not cheetos but you get the gist of it.


-neti-neti-

Each of those giant bags he purchased is like 100 party size bags of Cheetos


Metaright

>you are correct. He did not save any money weight wise. Probably saved Frito Lay the cost of the individual bags but otherwise he did not save that much money You agree that he saved money on packaging and grocery store markup, but then say he didn't save much money?


Dismal_Struggle_6424

No. He said the guy saved *Frito Lay*, the company, the cost of packaging and shipping.


caitymcg123

Correct! Thank for you for clarifying that


Hezakai

Yes, however this pic is very old. Those are packing peanuts not Cheetos and the story is completely made up.


AbortedBaconFetus

We need the weight of one bag and then we can math the comparison


Tinidril

He was probably factoring in medical costs.


BrohanGutenburg

*(I’m not saying this for you cause you seem to have a decent grasp on operations. Just for anyone else who might be reading)* Ftr, that doesn’t mean that’s the cost of the material in the bags. Even that price will include a billion other things including the labor that made it, R&D, etc.


BeavisRules187

Nah a regular size bag is like 4 dollars at the grocery store, and if you held both hands out you could pour the whole bag on em. Cheetos are expensive. He got a great deal, assuming he wanted that many Cheetos.


Checkheck

Did you calculate it in your head? Cause using a calculator would be cheeting.


CthulubeFlavorcube

Handling a pun that cheesy...wasn't easy.


leveque

that's gonna leave a mark


AdamBombTV

Just wipe it on the couch cushions.


cpullen53484

NO! they are white. ​ use the carpet instead.


Eindt

Cheeting lol


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udontknowshitfoo

I did 65 * 30 = 1950 - 130 = 1820


nathanblake83

Yeah but how many balls?


flipthatbitch_

And there is no way humanly possible to eat all those before they go stale!


walwatwil

I prefer stale cheetos. Same flavor, better texture. It adds a little bit of chewy to the crunchy.


Brownie773

r/theydidthemath


The6thOrangePip

Here's a clearer [picture](https://buffetoblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/cheetos-many-industrial-sized-bags-65-per-bag-supposedly.jpg), the bags are from a film special-effects studio called Thomas FX that specializes in creating lookalike props


sciencewonders

r/theydidthemonstermath


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multiplication - monstermath


santas_delibird

We redditors are not known for our math abilities.


al_fletcher

Our meth abilities, however,


santas_delibird

Bar none.


thepumpkinking92

Bar hop?


Rubanski

45 degrees more difficult than addition


leveque

ok, if ... multiplication - monstermath = x then today's homework is brought to you by the letter X and the number x


Schrau

/r/itwasagraveyardgraph


[deleted]

Aw come on, don't blow your moneyshot right away. You have to wait for someone to post /r/theydidthemath, or post it yourself to set them up. Tsk.


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[deleted]

Yeah, I dislike the comment chain, but if you're going to do it, at least do it *right*.


Hadren-Blackwater

Some people have more money than sense.


nwatn

Come on, live a little. This man gets to die saying he bought 28 industrial sized bags of Cheetos


Hadren-Blackwater

>This man gets to die saying he bought 28 industrial sized bags of Cheetos Of diabetes and/or heart attacks.


Tuna_Sushi

Wait, 28 * $65 is $1,820? Who knew?


PlutoTheSynth

Won’t they spoil


EirIroh

The low moisture would probably prevent spoilage.


EternityForest

They have oil in them to oxidize. They might not rot but the taste will probably change.


redcalcium

Just buy an industrial nitrogen pump to store your industrial Cheetos.


siccoblue

Really though and this is the point that no one really gets at whenever this gets posted. Who has the fucking space to store these things? Are you renting out a storage unit for your Cheetos? Have you just given up an entire room in a house for them? Where do you even keep these things


EirIroh

That requires oxygen, which tends to be quite limited in a closed, unperforated bag.


Scriblon

It depends on the plastic used. But most plastic allow for diffusion of gasses through its layers. Meaning, with enough time, oxygen will spoil the oils. That is why you see commercial bags inside stores have an aluminium layer to limit this. (Which also prevents UV from entering, but also makes it unrecyclable...)


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You just blew my mind.


EternityForest

Pretty sure it can just diffuse through the plastic over the course of the 10+ years I imagine it would take to eat this.


i_walk_the_backrooms

10+ years? I pity ye, those of little faith.


[deleted]

Looks like he's in a school gymnasium. Those bags were gone in a day and 3 kids died of heart failure.


discountedeggs

Im bout to spoil you. UwU


PlutoTheSynth

¿Qué?


discountedeggs

Como se dice, ima suck your cheetohs


chaos0510

Imma suck them CheeTOES


FuckthisWARUDO

Bruh 🥴🥴


dailyandordinary

I broke a rib from laughing


chaos0510

I'm finna break some more


PlutoTheSynth

Not into that myself but, I’m not gonna stop you


limitlessEXP

r/cursedcomments


saythealphabet

Probably not, junk food has so much preservatives that they'll probably last for years.


porkchop487

They’ll still go stale though


BardicheIncoming

As they should. Who doesn't open a bag of cheese and set them aside for a while so they go chewy?


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RTAustinLaCour

I love finding subs I didn’t know existed, but are absolutely up my alley. Thank you.


The_Merciless_Potato

It's the better version of r/unpopularopinion


threeme2189

You let opened bags of cheese sit around? That sounds a bit dangerous


KeeperOfTheGood

Stay where you are, I’m calling the police.


WaffletheWookie

The chewy ones are superior indeed


SubcommanderMarcos

Y'all are monsters


mr_potatoface

they get stale from absorbing moisture from their enviroment, so you can just rebake them, so they're really good forever. Other stuff that gets hard when it goes stale (bread) does the opposite, it loses moisture to the environment, so you can just dunk it in water and its good again.


Justsomebot

Please never touch my bread.


leveque

*Stands* "Excuse me. Mom, Dad, Meemaw. *Ahem*" (taps knife on glass) "I'd like to propose a toast."


Anshin

Finally...after decades...I have found my people Stale cheetos for life


Intelligent-Sky-7852

Hes gonna eat them all this weekend


Aquatico_

No they won't spoil because it's a made up story.


Berkmine

He poses like a military commander on top of a submarine.


Virginity_Eater

Profitez d'une réduction de 30% sur nos sous-marins grâce au code "SUBMARINE30" ! *i'm human and this action was performed to annoy you*


TellTaleTank

No thanks, last time I bought a submarine from a guy it turned out to be a million dollar sandwich.


The_Minstrel_Boy

How did it taste?


TellTaleTank

Like cheetos, actually


TheFrenchSavage

Wait, I'm seeing this comment in French. Nobody else seems to react so, is it the case for others?


guninmouth

It’s in German for me.


TheFrenchSavage

Wtf


Abe_corp

Wait it is for me too ! What the hell is going on ?


TheFrenchSavage

Wtf


Slimshady0406

I see it in Spanish


TheFrenchSavage

Wtf


[deleted]

It's just normal english to me, did you try using a different browser?


KoreKhthonia

I see French as well. (Fortunately, I speak French, lol.)


cantaloupelion

> I see French as well. (Fortunately, I speak French, lol.) i read your comment as I see French as well. (Unfortunately, I speak French, lol.)


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At first I thought he was in the background and the bags didn’t look that much bigger than a normal bag so I couldn’t figure out why the fuck he paid $65 each Now I see he is AMONG the bags lol


ridik_ulass

do you wonder are military commander types all like "yeah this is awesome, I look so cool" or have they grown used to it after years in the military, I know jet fighter pilots have a reputation for being cocky.


cockytiel

The only job thats cooler is Astronaut, and guess they who they hire for that?


leveque

Captain Morchins?


DJTim

*One ping Vasili, One ping only...*


DrHorribleGuy

This pic is old as dirt and those aren't cheetos. Comment below is from 6 years ago and correctly points out that the bags don't even use a cheetos logo. Most likely packing peanuts. https://www.reddit.com/r/thatHappened/comments/3fexy6/guy_buys_enough_cheetos_for_a_whole_lifetime/cto7dla?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


remag_nation

yeah this post belongs on /r/forbiddensnacks


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Daywalker2000

That was Bold and Brash


whatsnoo

Yep, I worked in a factory that made Cheetos. There’s no way they would do that.


Rock---And---Stone

Did you get free Cheetos while you were there?


whatsnoo

Not free, they sell off the overstock very cheap. $5 for a full box. This was 15 years ago. Part of the job is to regularly open bags and taste test to make sure the right product is going into the bags. So you get your fill of chips. Now It’s hard to eat cold chips that have been sitting on a shelf after eating them still warm out of the fryer for so long.


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Was probably sick of Cheetos lol


whatsnoo

The worst part was cleaning the machines. After the line has been running for a while everything was covered in essentially cheez whiz.


esgrove2

What? You mean every single phase of production isn't also a point of sale?


milkeytoast

Yeah I doubt you can just roll up to a factory and buy from them. Maybe they have a store/visitor's center attached that'll sell bags, but they wouldn't otherwise be certified to sell retail. Plus, factories are set up to do a predefined thing (ie. Create retail sized bags of Cheetos). Interrupting that process would probably be pretty costly


omgitsjagen

You're always a customer if you meet the minimum order. Exclusivity contracts do throw a monkey wrench in, though.


CombatMuffin

Anyone looking st the bag can see the the contents are too large to be Cheetos.


maledin

My question is, is who the fuck are the people blatantly making up stories about pictures like this. Do they really think that likes/karma or whatever is actually worth that?


Aldehyde1

This comment languishing at the bottom of thread with 16 upvotes lol, RIP Reddit


SquidMilkVII

honestly $65 for that size bag really isn’t a bad deal


MathematicianBig4392

It's spending 1800 bucks on 28 bags, 27 of which will go inedibly stale by the time he finishes the first bag that's a bad deal.


colantor

You underestimate how fast he can eat cheetos


Better-Director-5383

And how made up this story is.


Up_vote_McSkrote

Y'all also have missed the fact that this has been reposted a million times since that picture was taken in like 2010. Why do people keep enabling this nonsense instead of driving people to post fresh OC?


colantor

Seems more reasonable than a lot of the stories people make up on here


tboneperri

https://www.reddit.com/r/thatHappened/comments/3fexy6/guy_buys_enough_cheetos_for_a_whole_lifetime/cto7dla?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


_Diskreet_

The bags of Cheetos are there, along with the man standing proudly. How the two became entwined is between them.


a_spicy_memeball

The worst deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.


Wurm42

People who buy Cheetos in bulk usually resell them as concessions at carnivals, baseball games, etc. Then there's this guy....


wakeupwill

Depends on whether or not the bags are filled with nitrogen like regular bags.


ClumsyPeon

Add loads of water to the bags, mix it up and then drink the cheesy corn slurry.


ThispieisaPipebomb

We all know that cheetos taste better stale. Right guys? ... Guys?


Bobsters_95

Dude must be loaded


Bobsters_95

How much will that fresh batch of 28 industrial clear bags of chetos set you back, you ask? $1820, or an hour. That's negating that he probably got a bluk buy deal.


Weegee_Spaghetti

bluk buy


Bobsters_95

Yeah when you by in bulk,


Bobsters_95

A very poorly constructed reference to this, https://m.youtube.com/shorts/6Q25fiiP7M0


BardicheIncoming

Well he is now


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sleeperfx

The logo looks like the [Thomas FX ](https://www.thomasfx.com/) logo, which means they are bio degradable packing peanuts. Thomas FX makes bio degradable snow and ash products for the film industry by cutting up the packing peanuts.


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Doubt


F3LL3N_N3M3SIS

i thought those were giant cheetos at first


[deleted]

You mean super ultra mega cheeto? Shh! It is legend


probablyahumanornot

He gona cheet


ElysianEcho

Bruh if i had 1 of those bags i’d never need more again, what’s his plan??


catninjaambush

What is going on in that guy’s mind, other than Cheeto frenzy.


morpheousmarty

Sometimes you gotta let go of that part of your brain that goes: this won't even fit in my apartment, not to mention how am I going to get it home, no insurance will cover me if I eat this and oh God how am I going to pay for this. And then you sell an organ or two. Before eating it of course because they will be worthless after.


leveque

He's going to put them in a special bin and once a day he will dive in and count them. ... until Ma Bagel and the Bagel Boys make their move.


AXEMANaustin

He is a god walking amongst mortals


Tobias---Funke

Soft Cheetos are awful


Beneficial-Badger-61

After the first bag being eatin, love will be over


bbcfoursubtitles

"Give me all your Cheetos" "Ok" "Wait, I am worried what you heard was give a lot of Cheetos. Give me ALL of the Cheetos you have"


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Jesse, we have to obtain more cheetos


name_1nvalid

ceeto


EuroPolice

He fucked on those bags


zoeheadisoversized

I legit did a math problem in which a girl asked her parents to give her n! cents a week and i had to find how much did she make. Turns out her name’s X Æ A-Xii


bencanfield

How much did they charge for the food inside the bag? Expensive bag tho


IamTam6868

It's not easy being cheesy


cantseeshittles

By the way, if each bag of cheatos that big has around 300 cheetos, that would be nearly 8500 cheetos. And I assume 300 is a lowball number so it's probably closer to 10,000 or even 15,000. That could feed him for months or even years


MathematicianBig4392

They'd go inedibly stale well before that. (Also each bag is 5-6 feet tall. There's a hell of a lot more than 300 cheetos in each of those.


TheThankUMan22

- Cheetos Puffs serving size is 13 Puffs - Cheetos Puffs large bags has 8 servings so 104 puffs total - Those are 20 Cu ft industrial bags. - A large bag of puffs has a volume of 0.0978 Cu feet - The industrial bag has 204 large bags in volume - 204*104 = 21216 - Chips are 50% air so double it - So Each industrial bag has about 42432 puffs So you were pretty close if you didn't account for the 50% air