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I'm 100% confident that many of you out there have poured the final pieces out of your bag of favorite chips directly into your mouth. So, companies shouldn't waste any of that "dust" in their factories.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I just now realized you are talking about food

I though this was Silicon dust from a fab

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's what I thought too. Must be all the "AI" this and "NVidia" that dominating news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not as tasty.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I thought this was computer chips at first, but I still support it.

I'm pretty sure that cookie companies do this with cookies and cream ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I want Doritos dust ice cream now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Buy 2 cartons on vanilla ice cream. Eat 1. Now scoop half of the second one into the empty 1st carton so you have 2 half cartons.

Now go eat a family size bag of dorritos. What? You're trying to tell me you're not sitting there in your greasy sweatpants that haven't been washed in 2 weeks, after having JUST eaten an entire carton of ice cream BY YOURSELF, and you're going to say that the family size dorritos is too much for you? Pssshhhh!!!! Stop lying. You're not fooling anybody about your dietary habits. Everybody knows.

So, now that you've eaten the whole bag of dorritos, you should have a pretty decent size amount of small bits that are too small to be called chips. And a thick layer of dust. Now, put the mostly empty bag on the table, and just start punching it like life has punched your hopes and dreams in life. You thought you were going to grow up and be a big important business guy who carried a briefcase, and shoots a gun in business meetings because someone brought the wrong kind of coffee. Instead you work at starbucks and get yelled at by the guy who's about to be shot for bringing the wrong kind of coffee. You intentionally made it wrong so you knew he'd get shot. ORDER FOR BRETT!!!! Brett's going to die doing what he loves. Getting shot.

Now all those bits should also be dust, so you should have a fair bit amount of dust. Don't snort it! It's not cocaine! Instead, go snort a line of cocaine, because cocaine IS cocaine, and you have 15 strippers in your living room and a bag full of cocaine just ready to THIS IS THE FEDS!!!

BOOM! FRONT DOOR IS BREACHED!

HANDS ON THE GROUND!!! GET DOWN! GET DOWN!!!

funky music plays, all the feds dance in a dance party

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground! Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground! Gold in your mouth! Hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground, call yourself a cool cat! Pick em up!

.....what were we talking about again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

That was a trip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Have you ever gotten stoned and spent all day eating Doritos and jerking off than woken up with an orange extra cheesy dick?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] me too! The fact that I wasn't alone in making this mistake kind of goes to show the kind of people on fedi lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ha, yeah, computer chip bites would make for some serious fiber in the diet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Wha....no! You don't EAT them. You sell them you linux youtubers who say that they can't run linux on these old broken microchips. And they pull out their soddering gun, and say "BITCH I WILL END YOU!!!"

Actually they're not that aggressive. They probably say something they think sounds cool and threatening, but is more comic book cool than real life cool.

"With his trusty soddering gun in hand, linux man uses a vast knowledge of inner workings of electronics to repair any electronic no matter how demanding, in a never ending quest to prove that micro linux can run on ANYTHING!!!"

and then the delivery guy is like "Yeah, that's great. Sign here for your package, dork."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Me too! I was remembering the Intel incident when they discovered processors didn't calculate math correctly and turned a batch into keychains. I still have mine somewhere ...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Would make a good topping for mac n cheese.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Here in the states you can get Kraft mac n cheese flavored like Cheetos (regular or flamin hot) and cool ranch Doritos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Baked chicken breading

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Nice. I remember having a Doritos topped Mac' n Cheese

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But then what will they make Pringles out of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Tastes already like seasoned cardboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Tennis ball scraps since they already share cans?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would imagine they've tuned their lines well enough there's not enough waste for all whole product line. It probably already goes in the bags to hit exact weights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Or it gets sold as animal food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, I've had Hanover's.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats how All Dressed chips are made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Hmmm, just looked. Still a bit big compared to dust.

[–] ImplyingImplications 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You're copying the idea of brilliant entrepreneur Chabuddy G.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Nice. I don't see his idea on the shelf... Tell him to get his shit in gear!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That's exactly what I was thinking. Peanut Dust!

People Just Do Nothing is one of my favorite shows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always wanted hot funyun powder fundip equivalent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well, I def like regular funyuns... So, a whole line of fundips is a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t that how Pringles are made.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Pringles are actually grown on potatoe trees, each leaf is a Pringle harvested at the perfect time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know a place that uses dorito crumbs on a burger, so this makes sense.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ooh! I'm in if you do breakfast cereals too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not corn flakes. The good cereals! Get me a big ol bag of Fruity Pebbles dust! I'll deep fry chicken in THAT!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The ones that WEREN'T invented to keep us from masturbating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

They do this with pretty much everything already, honestly surprised this is the first time I've heard of this specific idea.