Friday, August 13, 2010

The Hilarious Explosive Sun Chips Bag

My daughter who was visiting recently introduced me to Sun Chips while she was here. By waking me up in the middle of the night with the most amazing noise that sounded like the crash of all my grandson's toys falling on the kitchen floor at once. I really thought he was up with her but since if he had been he'd have been chattering away as the three-year-old he is, or screaming from sleepiness, and he wasn't, I was forced to rethink the source of the noise. But being too sleepy to get up myself to check it out I had to wait until the next day to solve the mystery.

The mostly-vegetable-matter compostable Sun Chips bag is unbelievably LOUD. You can't quietly take out a chip, you have to wake up the neighborhood doing it. Google "sun chips bag loud" and see for yourself. And here's a discussion of it

A few nights later we were all around the kitchen table munching Sun Chips and reading the blurb about the bag's compostability. Unfortunately I don't have a bag handy at the moment for reference, but as I recall this is what it says:

The bag is guaranteed to break down over a few weeks

in a hot active home
or commercial composting operation.
It's possible to read "home" as the end of a thought rather than as related to "composting operation" and that got me laughing so hard I almost couldn't breathe for shrieking. If a full bag got stashed in a cabinet and forgotten in this hot (it's August) active (the three-year-old is beyond active) home, would we discover only a pile of chips there after a few weeks?

Sorry if it doesn't come across here as funny as it did to us. But we had a good laugh anyway.