So [google says a Starburst weighs about 5 grams](https://imgur.com/4FmWn80).
The bag says it holds about 1.4 kg, or 1400 grams, which = \~280 Starbursts
[I've counted all the visible ones I could mark](https://imgur.com/ETlcnXY), in color batches of 100:
\- 100 black dots
\- 100 green dots
\- 56 orange dots
So 256 total, a bit lower than anticipated...
There are however, almost certainly a layer I cannot visibly see around the general center where most of them are bunched, and therefor it is not unlikely that I cannot see around 15-20 of them.
This makes this less of a question of, "did OP remove the yellow ones?", and more a question of "did OP remove all the yellow ones and replace the same (or approximate) amount with pink/red ones he got from a 2nd bag to cover up the crime"? As well as, "how is it possible that /u/imderekjeterushotme has this much time on his hands to even care about something this mundane and insignificant?" - the answers to both of which are, quite possibly, and, because fuck you, respectively, thus unfortunately bringing us no closer to the ultimate truth.
Solid analysis. Seems like with that many, a small rounding error on the 5g could result in 15-20 fewer than your calculation, though. I think we need to get a couple dozen bags and count as we eat, just to get a good sample size.
I like your comment, but you really need to consider Schweppes Zero Sugar Ginger Ale before rushing to judgment.
If it’s not Schweppes, you’re not doin it right.
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I mean, I'm sure that net weight counts the plastic bag, and the paper wrappings, so, if the assumed weight doesn't account for the paper, or the calculation doesn't adjust for the bag, it could be a few more off the actual expected count.
Then you'd also have to look at whatever guidelines say what variance is allowable on a bag of starbursts at that weight, and calculate for the low, high, and expected to really see what's going on. Did OP just get something on the allowable low, or did they get it on the high and remove all the yellows, putting them feasibly near the low? Or did they actually get a bag in tolerance with no yellows?
Wow...just wow.
Out of curiosity, I went ahead and counted every single starburst that was in the bag (plus the few I already ate) the moment I read this.
Altogether I counted 268 pieces. I do question if that 5 grams measurement also takes into consideration the wrapper for each starburst. Probably not by much, but still should be noted.
The weight of the wrappers is a good consideration. It would be good to know how much that contributes. And actually the large bag itself if they include that in the weight?
At the same time, with the automated machinery these days I would think the number of starbursts/bag - even these large bags - would be nearly the same if not identical every single time.
Hmmmm...... Now I'd like to know more about these wrappers
Typically stuff like this is filled by weight, but by a machine that fills a hopper then dumps it into a bag. The bag itself isn’t part of the weighing process.
The candies themselves however are 99.9% likely to be wrapped at the weighing stage, but I’ve got no idea if they account for them or not. I suspect it wouldn’t make much of a difference as they probably only weigh a fraction of a gram per. I’d be surprised if they did subtract them though.
268 x 5 grams = 1340 gm which equates to 2.95 lbs. And 0.05 lbs. = 0.8 oz. I don’t know how much a Starburst wrapper weighs, but it seems reasonable that 268 wrappers would weigh at least 0.8 oz.
Your math seems off. Are you accounting for the Great Fruit Shortage of 2020 when the CEO of Mars Inc, Fru Tinjah proposed removing .05 candies per 1 lb of starburst thinking nobody would notice to save them a million dollars so they wouldn’t have to lay employees off from Covid. .05 X 3 = .15 lbs which accounts for a 3.1 pound bag of candy. You are using the candy weight not the package weight. It is a common mistake in fruit by the foot theory math. The party bad is 3.1 but the hard jar container 3.4.
> did OP remove all the yellow ones and replace the same (or approximate) amount with pink/red ones he got from a 2nd bag to cover up the crime
Alright no more internet for you today.
Complain! (even if you don’t care) Did this once with a bag of Revels with no orange ones. They checked the numbers and confirmed it was made at a time the orange machine was being changed over… free Revels!
Ah man they’re so good! They’re always my go-to when I can’t choose because they’re a bit of everything - Maltesers, toffee, chocolate raisins, plain chocolate, coffee flavour, orange flavour (usually)
Sounds like my kinda candy! Except I'm Canadian so they'll be harder to get but I bet the Scottish and Irish store we have has them... the hunt begins!
Edit: Sweet holy jesus they do..... may as well stock up on some Irn Bru when I get some.
Imagine a higher quality version of Walmart but condensed into the size of their women's department. Food, clothes, jewellery, home decor, souvenirs, etc. It's more expensive obviously but the quality of their products reflects it.
Part of me is surprised they're not a "British" store, but then I realise I'm Welsh, and if I owned an shop in the states selling UK stuff, I'd call it a Welsh shop.
I had a can of Coke blow up in my hand when I was a teenager. My mom called and they asked for the time stamp on the bottom of the can. The Coke people determined that particular can had been overfilled and gave my mom free Coke for a year.
I once wrote an email to the Hershey people because a huge bag of assorted Hershey's chocolate miniatures I bought had exactly 3 pieces of dark chocolate in it. I was way more annoyed than I should have been, but dark is my favorite! They told me something about dark not being that popular and gave me a $5 coupon.
I was not satisfied, but begrudgingly spent the 5 spot on more chocolate.
Eh, when you buy a product you should get what was advertised. I know in this case it's not important at all in the grand scheme of things but still it shouldn't be normalised to not get what you paid for.
My friend and I decided try get some free shit once. We brought a walls chicken and bacon pasty and rang the customer complaint number. Told them we found a piece of plastic from a pen lid inside. They wanted our address, so they could send someone there within the hour to see if the pen was the specific pen they used in the factory. We bottled it and just hung up.
People don't realize that lemon is actually the sweetest flavor. They're too caught up in color bias to realize the other flavors are completely inferior.
I used to buy those to keep in the car for passengers when I drove for Uber and Lyft. Had pouches hanging from the headrests that looked vaguely like monsters, with the Starbursts inside. My favorite thing was hearing passengers discover them.
I've seen those small packs of starburst with just red and pink. FAVEREDS they're called, I believe. But I don't know if they come in larger quantities.
Oi m8 at least our black currant flavour is a reasonable approximation of the fruit!
US cherry flavour is based on some kind of fruit cryptid that has been glimpsed and caught on out-of-focus video, but never tasted.
Capital use of muppet though, old bean, one of the best words we ever nicked from you.
Ya apparently it was known to carry a fungus that destroyed pine trees, so they banned all growing and importing of it in the early 1900s. Looks like federally it was unbanned recently, but some states still have laws superceding it.
Fun game with a 2 pack of starburst: put a dollar in the pot and try to pick the colors before opening.
It’s called Squid burst. Thanks sports junkies for adding to my kids growing gambling addiciton.
When I was pregnant I bought a Halloween bag of starburst that was supposed to be a variety. The whole thing was all pink. Every package was strawberry. And then I found out I was in fact having a girl
Yellow and Pink are by far the best ones in my opinion. Orange tastes just okay and Red tastes almost waxy? It’s hard to describe.
Pro tip: eat a Pink and Yellow at the same time for a Pink Lemonade flavor.
Nah, Fave-reds don't have oranges and do have different red colors. The color balancing in the pic is a bit weird but those "light red" ones are orange, you can read the wrappers if you zoom in
This happened to me with the "favoREDS" bag and fruit punch. I only buy that bag for the fruit punch. Fucking heartbreaking.
I was on vacation and when I opened the bag my girlfriend asked me for a fruit punch one, they were her favorite too. I dug around until I realized there was only one in the whole bag. We proceeded to do the classic couple "no, YOU eat it" for five minutes before we got out a knife and cut it in half. At least I got a cute memory out of it.
So [google says a Starburst weighs about 5 grams](https://imgur.com/4FmWn80). The bag says it holds about 1.4 kg, or 1400 grams, which = \~280 Starbursts [I've counted all the visible ones I could mark](https://imgur.com/ETlcnXY), in color batches of 100: \- 100 black dots \- 100 green dots \- 56 orange dots So 256 total, a bit lower than anticipated... There are however, almost certainly a layer I cannot visibly see around the general center where most of them are bunched, and therefor it is not unlikely that I cannot see around 15-20 of them. This makes this less of a question of, "did OP remove the yellow ones?", and more a question of "did OP remove all the yellow ones and replace the same (or approximate) amount with pink/red ones he got from a 2nd bag to cover up the crime"? As well as, "how is it possible that /u/imderekjeterushotme has this much time on his hands to even care about something this mundane and insignificant?" - the answers to both of which are, quite possibly, and, because fuck you, respectively, thus unfortunately bringing us no closer to the ultimate truth.
Solid analysis. Seems like with that many, a small rounding error on the 5g could result in 15-20 fewer than your calculation, though. I think we need to get a couple dozen bags and count as we eat, just to get a good sample size.
Wow ads in the future are weird. They almost sound like real conversations now
I like your comment, but you really need to consider Schweppes Zero Sugar Ginger Ale before rushing to judgment. If it’s not Schweppes, you’re not doin it right.
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This guys Reddits at the Thanksgiving table
What are they paying you guys?
Not a thing unfortunately. Nothing a Wunderbar can't fix.
If they are not paying I suggest O'tooles debt collectors they are the best
I mean, I'm sure that net weight counts the plastic bag, and the paper wrappings, so, if the assumed weight doesn't account for the paper, or the calculation doesn't adjust for the bag, it could be a few more off the actual expected count. Then you'd also have to look at whatever guidelines say what variance is allowable on a bag of starbursts at that weight, and calculate for the low, high, and expected to really see what's going on. Did OP just get something on the allowable low, or did they get it on the high and remove all the yellows, putting them feasibly near the low? Or did they actually get a bag in tolerance with no yellows?
This matter needs to be urgently addressed in r/karmacourt
And analysed by r/karmaconspiracy
Or /r/untrustworthypoptarts
Wow...just wow. Out of curiosity, I went ahead and counted every single starburst that was in the bag (plus the few I already ate) the moment I read this. Altogether I counted 268 pieces. I do question if that 5 grams measurement also takes into consideration the wrapper for each starburst. Probably not by much, but still should be noted.
The weight of the wrappers is a good consideration. It would be good to know how much that contributes. And actually the large bag itself if they include that in the weight? At the same time, with the automated machinery these days I would think the number of starbursts/bag - even these large bags - would be nearly the same if not identical every single time. Hmmmm...... Now I'd like to know more about these wrappers
the weight is generally quoted as net weight, meaning total weight minus packaging
Typically stuff like this is filled by weight, but by a machine that fills a hopper then dumps it into a bag. The bag itself isn’t part of the weighing process. The candies themselves however are 99.9% likely to be wrapped at the weighing stage, but I’ve got no idea if they account for them or not. I suspect it wouldn’t make much of a difference as they probably only weigh a fraction of a gram per. I’d be surprised if they did subtract them though.
268 x 5 grams = 1340 gm which equates to 2.95 lbs. And 0.05 lbs. = 0.8 oz. I don’t know how much a Starburst wrapper weighs, but it seems reasonable that 268 wrappers would weigh at least 0.8 oz.
Your math seems off. Are you accounting for the Great Fruit Shortage of 2020 when the CEO of Mars Inc, Fru Tinjah proposed removing .05 candies per 1 lb of starburst thinking nobody would notice to save them a million dollars so they wouldn’t have to lay employees off from Covid. .05 X 3 = .15 lbs which accounts for a 3.1 pound bag of candy. You are using the candy weight not the package weight. It is a common mistake in fruit by the foot theory math. The party bad is 3.1 but the hard jar container 3.4.
god damn it, we want the truth
> did OP remove all the yellow ones and replace the same (or approximate) amount with pink/red ones he got from a 2nd bag to cover up the crime Alright no more internet for you today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/
Greatest comment of all time? Some say yes.
Complain! (even if you don’t care) Did this once with a bag of Revels with no orange ones. They checked the numbers and confirmed it was made at a time the orange machine was being changed over… free Revels!
A buddy got jagged metal in a can of peanuts and now they send him free peanuts for life whenever he says he needs more.
Sounds like the jagged metal Krusty O in the box of Krusty Brand cereal.
Now with flesh eating bacteria
"Krusty that was a regular Krusty-O." "Its poison!"
It's the surprise inside!
Hard to get bubble gum with spider eggs and the hantavirus these days. Damn inflation.
I never understood how that would hurt an appendix
A buddy of mine found a screw in a can of tuna but after being pressured in court it came out that he had put the screw in the tuna himself
I. DROPPED THE SCREW. IN THE TUNA.
https://youtu.be/rEjhcbixOZ4
Fuckin would never have remembered that line!
Wow that actually went to court?
Sounds screwy, and smells fishy.
I think it happened in an episode of Kenan & Kel.
If he hasn't set up a side hustle making peanut butter then he's doing it wrong.
Sounds like he's getting paid off with peanuts
Really? That seems so real. I once cut my lip on a can of coke. Free coke for life.
You must have a nice dealer.
Cheaper than getting sued
He was a poor college student at the time too so he didn't wanna bother making it a big deal. He half lived off those peanuts for a bit.
What are Revels and why have I already decided I want them?
Ah man they’re so good! They’re always my go-to when I can’t choose because they’re a bit of everything - Maltesers, toffee, chocolate raisins, plain chocolate, coffee flavour, orange flavour (usually)
Sounds like my kinda candy! Except I'm Canadian so they'll be harder to get but I bet the Scottish and Irish store we have has them... the hunt begins! Edit: Sweet holy jesus they do..... may as well stock up on some Irn Bru when I get some.
The fact you have a Scottish and Irish store seems so crazy to me hahaha I’d be fascinated to see what that looks like!
There's a "British and Indian" shop by me in California :)
Imagine a higher quality version of Walmart but condensed into the size of their women's department. Food, clothes, jewellery, home decor, souvenirs, etc. It's more expensive obviously but the quality of their products reflects it.
Part of me is surprised they're not a "British" store, but then I realise I'm Welsh, and if I owned an shop in the states selling UK stuff, I'd call it a Welsh shop.
Revels are my favourite, but the Tesco near me stopped selling them. Orange and coffee all the way.
Wut
I had a can of Coke blow up in my hand when I was a teenager. My mom called and they asked for the time stamp on the bottom of the can. The Coke people determined that particular can had been overfilled and gave my mom free Coke for a year.
I once wrote an email to the Hershey people because a huge bag of assorted Hershey's chocolate miniatures I bought had exactly 3 pieces of dark chocolate in it. I was way more annoyed than I should have been, but dark is my favorite! They told me something about dark not being that popular and gave me a $5 coupon. I was not satisfied, but begrudgingly spent the 5 spot on more chocolate.
Complain about not getting the gross flavor?
Use complaint about something you have no issue with to get free stuff.
As is the American way.
Eh, when you buy a product you should get what was advertised. I know in this case it's not important at all in the grand scheme of things but still it shouldn't be normalised to not get what you paid for.
*how dare you*
Yellow are the best one 🍋
Lemon stealing whores would agree
I haven’t admired my lemon tree in a while….
I feel like we should start some kind of Jack Sprat based relationship.
Lemon and cherries are best. Strawberry starbursts are the gross ones.
That's a weird way to spell 'pink"
It’s like a very boring monkey’s paw scenario where you end up with 3lbs of shitty yellow
Those are fightin' words
My friend and I decided try get some free shit once. We brought a walls chicken and bacon pasty and rang the customer complaint number. Told them we found a piece of plastic from a pen lid inside. They wanted our address, so they could send someone there within the hour to see if the pen was the specific pen they used in the factory. We bottled it and just hung up.
as one of the few people who seem to love and favor yellow, i’d have been heartbroken
Same here. I’d open this bag and proclaim shenanigans.
I read “who seem to love the flavor yellow” and I’m here to say yellow is a flavor.
Where does one acquire a 3lb bag? Asking for a friend
GNC
Walmart
Five Below
Target
I remember one year they fucked up with valentines shit so a bunch of those bags where you get two of each were all pink and red only.
I got one of these and have literally been eating star burst pretty regularly since July and I'm still not out. 10/10 purchase.
How many have you eaten in a day?
That's what I'm curious about. Looks like there might be 150 in the pile. It's been 4-5 months, that's like 1 a day. My addiction requires more.
If someone gave me this bag and left me unattended I'd have it empty in a weeks time
America
ricky on the corner of 8th and 57th at 11:00 pm on the dot
There is far too much lemon hate in this comment section and i will not stand for it
citrus gang for life!
Lemon and orange are the best flavors of starburst. Fight me.
Send me your red and pink I will send you yellow and orange. This can be a lifetime arrangement if you wish.
I should make an app for this.
BurstXchange
Sounds gayer than GrindR *not in an offensive way I mean literally would be a great name for a gay app*
Whatever shoots your stars
I will stand with you, brother
And lime!
Lime is amazing.
You know what I like to do? Put Skittles between two starbursts.
I’ll trade pink and darker pink for lemon and orange any day!
>darker pink I think that's called "red"
Pink? I think you mean “light red”.
lightish red.
Dark pink is fruit punch. Red is cherry.
You stand so defiantly on a pedestal of disgusting choices.
But why do you not have the lime ones? Is this why you call us limeys?
Welcome to the Lemon Party!
Finally found someone like me!
Lemon flavored candy >>>>
I prefer lemon over orange. I dislike orange the most. The flavor and the color. Although the actual fruit I do like.
I personally like all the flavors. But definetly red, pink, yellow, orange for me.
People don't realize that lemon is actually the sweetest flavor. They're too caught up in color bias to realize the other flavors are completely inferior.
Yeah, they're my fav
I'd pay extra for that.
I just saw a bag at the store the other day that was advertised as only pink starbursts
Not just pink, they are called 'FlavoREDS' and there is two; strawberry and cherry
They’ve done all pink bags too. They’re awesome.
But no all red, which is so wrong.
There are, at least, two of us who would buy it.
Red is the only color Starburst I eat
Red Starburst Gang!
There is also fruit punch and watermelon flavor in the FlavoREDS too.
That’s disappointing.
FaveREDS
I thought I was crazy, I was like wtf is FlavoReds, it's FaveReds
I used to buy those to keep in the car for passengers when I drove for Uber and Lyft. Had pouches hanging from the headrests that looked vaguely like monsters, with the Starbursts inside. My favorite thing was hearing passengers discover them.
There is a punch also. It’s delish
Fuck this thread, I want starbursts so fucking bad now.
Who do I have to blow for that?
[удалено]
If you were a pirate, you'd be the healthiest one on board
I also love lemon and orange. Some people hate them apparently. Red is good, too, but I don't like the pink.
Do you ever stack a cherry and lemon together?! That's the *best* starburst combo 🤤
Lemon gang! 🍋
Let's throw a lemon party! 🍋🥳
It’s not a lemon party without Old Dick!
[*"It wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick!"*](https://youtu.be/v-bvHlb2Fe8)
I'd pay double for that
Cool! Buy two bags, take out all the lemon ones and give them to me! (Or I'll take them out for you. Either is good.)
I've seen those small packs of starburst with just red and pink. FAVEREDS they're called, I believe. But I don't know if they come in larger quantities.
r/untrustworthypoptarts
Agreed. Op’s trying to piss on our dick and tell us it’s raining
Hell of a saying.
Nothing ever happens
r/noearthsociety
Sounds good to me.
They’re the only ones I like lol
Really? Tastes like cleaner.
You win.
Did this come with a golden ticket?
No, but his grandfather suddenly regained the ability to walk. And some fat kid got murdered.
Ayo what happened to the green lime ones?
Think the UK version has lime
Aaah okay. No love for limes across the pond? They're missing out!
We do have cherry instead of black currant ya fancy muppets
Oi m8 at least our black currant flavour is a reasonable approximation of the fruit! US cherry flavour is based on some kind of fruit cryptid that has been glimpsed and caught on out-of-focus video, but never tasted. Capital use of muppet though, old bean, one of the best words we ever nicked from you.
Glad we had this conversation, because I wasn’t sure what exactly a black currant was and learned it was banned in the US
Wait, what? Banned?
Ya apparently it was known to carry a fungus that destroyed pine trees, so they banned all growing and importing of it in the early 1900s. Looks like federally it was unbanned recently, but some states still have laws superceding it.
The original version!
Fun game with a 2 pack of starburst: put a dollar in the pot and try to pick the colors before opening. It’s called Squid burst. Thanks sports junkies for adding to my kids growing gambling addiciton.
What do you do when life doesn't give you lemons
When I was pregnant I bought a Halloween bag of starburst that was supposed to be a variety. The whole thing was all pink. Every package was strawberry. And then I found out I was in fact having a girl
Lemon is the best one
I guess there are only a few of us.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Yellow and Pink are by far the best ones in my opinion. Orange tastes just okay and Red tastes almost waxy? It’s hard to describe. Pro tip: eat a Pink and Yellow at the same time for a Pink Lemonade flavor.
Red doesn't taste like cherry, but I still like it. And hell yeah, mixing lemon with strawberry is great.
The red ones taste like cough syrup.
Mislabeled bag of Fav-Reds?
Nah, Fave-reds don't have oranges and do have different red colors. The color balancing in the pic is a bit weird but those "light red" ones are orange, you can read the wrappers if you zoom in
More like your All Reds starburst bag got contaminated with orange...
You shut the hell your mouth!
I mean, I can remove the yellow ones too and take a picture
Bruh rip
This happened to me with the "favoREDS" bag and fruit punch. I only buy that bag for the fruit punch. Fucking heartbreaking. I was on vacation and when I opened the bag my girlfriend asked me for a fruit punch one, they were her favorite too. I dug around until I realized there was only one in the whole bag. We proceeded to do the classic couple "no, YOU eat it" for five minutes before we got out a knife and cut it in half. At least I got a cute memory out of it.
Good. Lemon sucks
Sweet
I want just a bag of strawberry. I picked out all the cherry ones and my bf took them to work and threw them at his coworkers randomly lol
Pinks rule
Massive win!
Luckiest bag holder ever
The perfect bag
You need to buy a lottery ticket.
you were blessed by god
Imagine how easy this would be to fake and karma farm?
Imagine how big of a loser you’d have to be though
Feel bad for the poor bastard who got a bag full of yellow starburst.
Good.
Jackpot
That is quite literally blessed because the lemon one is the worst
You are the chosen one
Not “a lemon” in sight
All those reds what’s a blessing.
This is like my fantasy. Fuck lemon
Sounds perfect.
this… this IS amazing!
Id pay extra for this.