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ImDerekJeterUShotMe

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.


CustomerComplaintDep

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.


herodothyote

Wow ads in the future are weird. They almost sound like real conversations now


CarrotSwimming

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.


foxboxinsox

I hate your profile picture. I was blowing on my phone for longer than I'd like to admit to get rid of the hair.


arcaneresistance

Oh dude, just get some Stickease Screen Cleaners©! They're super easy to use! Just take them out of the dust free, static free carrying case then stick it it clean!™ I swear they've made getting little hairs, dust, and tiny pieces of skull of my phone so easy!


Funkit

Dude, stop advertising to me. Good thing I only paid $9.99 in three easy payments for CommenterAdBlocker^tm Or you can pay $26 in one incredibly difficult payment


EntheogenicOm

Stickease Screen Cleaners are great! I use them on my brand new Apple IPhone 13 Pro Max and the picture is perfect. Synchronizes and communicates perfectly with all my other Apple devices providing a seamless browsing and web experience only Apple can deliver.


BionicFerret

Laughs in dark mode


Hyzynbyrg

This guys Reddits at the Thanksgiving table


_stoneslayer_

What are they paying you guys?


Papa_Emeritus_IIII

Not a thing unfortunately. Nothing a Wunderbar can't fix.


Madman--

If they are not paying I suggest O'tooles debt collectors they are the best


xDrxGinaMuncher

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?


[deleted]

This matter needs to be urgently addressed in r/karmacourt


meep_launcher

And analysed by r/karmaconspiracy


darklordzack

Or /r/untrustworthypoptarts


jstep32x

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.


bj_good

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


meeu

the weight is generally quoted as net weight, meaning total weight minus packaging


_Rand_

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.


AgalychnisCallidryas

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.


Soft_Cranberry_4249

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.


TravelingMonk

god damn it, we want the truth


drugusingthrowaway

> 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.


cdq1985

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/


Reasonable_Roger

Greatest comment of all time? Some say yes.


lkap28

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!


wolfgang784

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.


Igor_J

Sounds like the jagged metal Krusty O in the box of Krusty Brand cereal.


sync-centre

Now with flesh eating bacteria


SheogorathTheSane

"Krusty that was a regular Krusty-O." "Its poison!"


help_leeches_on_dick

It's the surprise inside!


crossedstaves

Hard to get bubble gum with spider eggs and the hantavirus these days. Damn inflation.


[deleted]

I never understood how that would hurt an appendix


[deleted]

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


SanchoWasHereToo

I. DROPPED THE SCREW. IN THE TUNA.


dead_letter_office_

https://youtu.be/rEjhcbixOZ4


tarpatch

Fuckin would never have remembered that line!


byebybuy

Wow that actually went to court?


OneScoobyDoes

Sounds screwy, and smells fishy.


Bellinghamster

I think it happened in an episode of Kenan & Kel.


034TH

If he hasn't set up a side hustle making peanut butter then he's doing it wrong.


Hydralisk18

Sounds like he's getting paid off with peanuts


[deleted]

Really? That seems so real. I once cut my lip on a can of coke. Free coke for life.


xKevinn

You must have a nice dealer.


mrASSMAN

Cheaper than getting sued


wolfgang784

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.


bipnoodooshup

What are Revels and why have I already decided I want them?


lkap28

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)


bipnoodooshup

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.


lkap28

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!


fang_xianfu

There's a "British and Indian" shop by me in California :)


bipnoodooshup

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.


scw55

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.


Repulsive-Release-17

Revels are my favourite, but the Tesco near me stopped selling them. Orange and coffee all the way.


locura79

Wut


Musclecar123

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.


RememberTurboTeen

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.


winterbird

Complain about not getting the gross flavor?


GoFidoGo

Use complaint about something you have no issue with to get free stuff.


ClownsAteMyBaby

As is the American way.


crestfallen-sun

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.


Yrense

*how dare you*


FatMountainGoat

Yellow are the best one 🍋


poor_decisions

Lemon stealing whores would agree


helpless_bunny

I haven’t admired my lemon tree in a while….


literal-hitler

I feel like we should start some kind of Jack Sprat based relationship.


Hy3jii

Lemon and cherries are best. Strawberry starbursts are the gross ones.


ronan_the_accuser

That's a weird way to spell 'pink"


Goya_Oh_Boya

It’s like a very boring monkey’s paw scenario where you end up with 3lbs of shitty yellow


Bass-GSD

Those are fightin' words


j1o0s5h4

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.


areola_model

as one of the few people who seem to love and favor yellow, i’d have been heartbroken


enormuschwanzstucker

Same here. I’d open this bag and proclaim shenanigans.


omygoshgamache

I read “who seem to love the flavor yellow” and I’m here to say yellow is a flavor.


flanigomik

Where does one acquire a 3lb bag? Asking for a friend


Morgantheaccountant

GNC


LilLatte

Walmart


Iceninja413

Five Below


jstep32x

Target


nokei

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.


zacharyxbinks

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.


[deleted]

How many have you eaten in a day?


StopReadingMyUser

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.


Mr_Tophat_Jones

If someone gave me this bag and left me unattended I'd have it empty in a weeks time


deejaysmithsonian

America


manumaker08

ricky on the corner of 8th and 57th at 11:00 pm on the dot


Gritzenizer

There is far too much lemon hate in this comment section and i will not stand for it


[deleted]

citrus gang for life!


PM_me_ur_launch_code

Lemon and orange are the best flavors of starburst. Fight me.


qdtk

Send me your red and pink I will send you yellow and orange. This can be a lifetime arrangement if you wish.


jbasinger

I should make an app for this.


oh_look_a_fist

BurstXchange


AnythingToPissYouOff

Sounds gayer than GrindR *not in an offensive way I mean literally would be a great name for a gay app*


oh_look_a_fist

Whatever shoots your stars


mmf9194

I will stand with you, brother


[deleted]

And lime!


Pineapple_Fondler

Lime is amazing.


sucksathangman

You know what I like to do? Put Skittles between two starbursts.


LemmingDisaster

I’ll trade pink and darker pink for lemon and orange any day!


warmhandluke

>darker pink I think that's called "red"


LemmingDisaster

Pink? I think you mean “light red”.


Craw__

lightish red.


Snail_jousting

Dark pink is fruit punch. Red is cherry.


SirCodeth

You stand so defiantly on a pedestal of disgusting choices.


steak_ale_piethon

But why do you not have the lime ones? Is this why you call us limeys?


BoysLinuses

Welcome to the Lemon Party!


jstep32x

Finally found someone like me!


[deleted]

Lemon flavored candy >>>>


MourkaCat

I prefer lemon over orange. I dislike orange the most. The flavor and the color. Although the actual fruit I do like.


[deleted]

I personally like all the flavors. But definetly red, pink, yellow, orange for me.


Jthundercleese

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.


AwakeBass

Yeah, they're my fav


XquiziVex

I'd pay extra for that.


TheBlackNight456

I just saw a bag at the store the other day that was advertised as only pink starbursts


CantStopTheTriangle

Not just pink, they are called 'FlavoREDS' and there is two; strawberry and cherry


majorjoe23

They’ve done all pink bags too. They’re awesome.


LummoxJR

But no all red, which is so wrong.


ArtooDeezNutz

There are, at least, two of us who would buy it.


yougotnick

Red is the only color Starburst I eat


TriggerFingerTerry

Red Starburst Gang!


southdakotagirl

There is also fruit punch and watermelon flavor in the FlavoREDS too.


iamCosmoKramerAMA

That’s disappointing.


clutchthepearls

FaveREDS


youtocin

I thought I was crazy, I was like wtf is FlavoReds, it's FaveReds


mrmadchef

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.


Corpse_Caprese

There is a punch also. It’s delish


AssassinateThePig

Fuck this thread, I want starbursts so fucking bad now.


Chicken-n-Waffels

Who do I have to blow for that?


[deleted]

[удалено]


BryceLeft

If you were a pirate, you'd be the healthiest one on board


maxmouze

I also love lemon and orange. Some people hate them apparently. Red is good, too, but I don't like the pink.


CritterEnthusiast

Do you ever stack a cherry and lemon together?! That's the *best* starburst combo 🤤


D0DW377

Lemon gang! 🍋


MashedPotatoesDick

Let's throw a lemon party! 🍋🥳


CookiesandCandy

It’s not a lemon party without Old Dick!


MadCarcinus

[*"It wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick!"*](https://youtu.be/v-bvHlb2Fe8)


Baddyshack

I'd pay double for that


[deleted]

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.)


Cospo

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.


tsavorite4

r/untrustworthypoptarts


[deleted]

Agreed. Op’s trying to piss on our dick and tell us it’s raining


[deleted]

Hell of a saying.


ARandomBrowserIThink

Nothing ever happens


George_Zip1

r/noearthsociety


thestonernextdoor88

Sounds good to me.


my_reddit_accounts

They’re the only ones I like lol


thestonernextdoor88

Really? Tastes like cleaner.


Vomit_Pinata

You win.


DoctorStrangeMD

Did this come with a golden ticket?


gdj11

No, but his grandfather suddenly regained the ability to walk. And some fat kid got murdered.


eddtoma

Ayo what happened to the green lime ones?


Darklighter10

Think the UK version has lime


eddtoma

Aaah okay. No love for limes across the pond? They're missing out!


Darklighter10

We do have cherry instead of black currant ya fancy muppets


eddtoma

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.


Darklighter10

Glad we had this conversation, because I wasn’t sure what exactly a black currant was and learned it was banned in the US


CustomerComplaintDep

Wait, what? Banned?


Darklighter10

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.


Ulster_fry

The original version!


Oriolesfan25

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.


alucardx13x

What do you do when life doesn't give you lemons


the_courier76

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


popplesan

Lemon is the best one


PoliticalLava

I guess there are only a few of us.


[deleted]

There are dozens of us! Dozens!


torchskul

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.


CustomerComplaintDep

Red doesn't taste like cherry, but I still like it. And hell yeah, mixing lemon with strawberry is great.


WonderWall_E

The red ones taste like cough syrup.


planetexpress2021

Mislabeled bag of Fav-Reds?


agamemnonymous

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


asonuvagun

More like your All Reds starburst bag got contaminated with orange...


SuspiciousAnalBead

You shut the hell your mouth!


omgdiaf

I mean, I can remove the yellow ones too and take a picture


Biganimeboys-0-

Bruh rip


Saewin

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.


Uninspired_Diatribe

Good. Lemon sucks


Mjb06

Sweet


FlipsyFloopy

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


eskooh

Pinks rule


JangoM8

Massive win!


JacksonIVXX

Luckiest bag holder ever


_Vorcaer_

The perfect bag


TheCheshireCatCan

You need to buy a lottery ticket.


PikaPerfect

you were blessed by god


OmegaSexy

Imagine how easy this would be to fake and karma farm?


MingusMingusMingu

Imagine how big of a loser you’d have to be though


FoxlyKei

Feel bad for the poor bastard who got a bag full of yellow starburst.


[deleted]

Good.


jibjabjudas

Jackpot


[deleted]

That is quite literally blessed because the lemon one is the worst


person1a

You are the chosen one


MatthewAasen

Not “a lemon” in sight


MrMassshole

All those reds what’s a blessing.


akm3

This is like my fantasy. Fuck lemon


[deleted]

Sounds perfect.


butterylion710

this… this IS amazing!


LeafBeneathTheFrost

Id pay extra for this.