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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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[–] roofuskit 5 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 22 hours 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] 3 points 18 hours 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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I want Doritos dust ice cream now.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 7 points 20 hours ago (1 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?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 3 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 20 hours 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] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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 ...

[–] dual_sport_dork 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

But then what will they make Pringles out of?

[–] hakunawazo 1 points 1 hour ago

Tastes already like seasoned cardboard.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 2 points 17 hours ago

Tennis ball scraps since they already share cans?

[–] reddig33 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Would make a good topping for mac n cheese.

[–] bronxasaur 5 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] SolidShake 4 points 21 hours ago

Baked chicken breading

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Thats how All Dressed chips are made.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 3 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I always wanted hot funyun powder fundip equivalent

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 2 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

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

People Just Do Nothing is one of my favorite shows.

[–] sprack 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t that how Pringles are made.

[–] Jimmycakes 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] Rhynoplaz 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz 1 points 19 hours 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 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

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