@Yurg60Y That would require opening the box and separating 72 little bars. We ain’t got time for that!

@troy @Yurg60Y Looks like a job for …

/showme sad mediocrebot splitting 144 KIND Minis Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Bars from 1 box into 2 boxes.

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@troy @Yurg60Y Next time, Meh can send them to me and I’ll separate them! (Commission basis, of course.)

/showme gringott’s dwarf separating one box of 144 Kind dark chocolate bars into two large boxes and one small box, labeled 60, 60, and 24

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@cfg83 @mediocrebot
Math checks out…

@cfg83 @macromeh @mediocrebot
“Not great. Not terrible” seems to sum up the Meh experience pretty well.

@cfg83 @macromeh @mediocrebot @pmarin Yes, by definition.

@troy There’s always the manufacturer’s way of counting, by weight. Count two or three batches, weigh them, use the average as the set point, and you can speed-run the rest.

@werehatrack you will taste the salt. It doesn’t taste overpowering to me, but it’s the level you’d expect from a chocolate covered pretzel.

@werehatrack These have seas, not oceans, of salt.

@zippyus And that is why I don’t buy chocolate-covered pretzels, either.

@rpstrong @werehatrack Not sure I’d prefer Dead Sea over Pacific Ocean saltiness.

KuoH

@rpstrong @werehatrack Not sure I’d prefer Dead Sea over Pacific Ocean saltiness.

KuoH

@kuoh Agreed!

@tweezak see you tomorrow!

@mike808 3gm per bar read specs

@firstcrack I did. Did you? Serving size 20g. 1 bar.

@mike808 I think @firstcrack was referring to the sugar content.

@firstcrack @mike808 @werehatrack
or (more likely) the sodium since saltiness has been a topic already. Just made a new comment instead of a reply… BTDT

@phendrick Freezer works

@phendrick @troy
But is your refrigerator running?

@macromeh @phendrick @troy Better go catch it!

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@mediocrebot @zippyus Damn, AI is getting too cute,

I can’t not laugh at this take.

@MaxieBabie It’s quite well documented by the FDA what it can be…not everything is a conspiracy ya loon

@davidfast @MaxieBabie
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@davidfast @MaxieBabie Not as well documented as you might expect. Natural flavors can be flavors extracted from natural sources (usually plant or animal) by wholly unnatural means. Toxic solvents can be used - factory chemicals which are, in theory, washed out or neutralized before the final extract is sold as flavoring.

[My own take is that natural flavors are sufficiently well controlled that any hazards they create for me don’t/won’t have any measurable impact upon my health or life expectancy - especially in comparison to other lifestyle options that I’ve chosen.]

A reasonable objection from some is that the solvents, processes, and source stocks are not required to be listed. A plant based source might be unavailable due to a bad growing season - but a fish based source producing the same flavor can be used instead.

Good news for most consumers, who benefit from having a consistent end flavor, regardless of how it was sourced.

But bad news for vegetarians, as there is no easy easy to know if the natural flavor de jour is vegan, or kosher, or endangered, or free range, or whatever. It seems that this lack of transparency is what is causing blowback - the umbrella term allows manufacturers to use chemicals or techniques which may not be palatable to the average consumer.

@davidfast @MaxieBabie @rpstrong And having read the list of what’s permitted as “natural flavors”, it encompasses so many food-stream waste extractives and processed-into-untraceability substances that it’s really hard to characterize them as edible. That’s why the EU regs are a lot less accepting of such shenanigans.

@dpease At least they are individually wrapped so that they can be tossed in the fridge to recongeal them into individual mini-slabs after sitting on your porch, in the sun, in 104F heat, for six hours. That’s in contrast to the infamous jellybeans that were sometimes shipped with a hammer.

I’ll still pass. If they get some that aren’t salty, “peanut butter”, or caramel, I’ll think about it.

@dpease @werehatrack

That’s in contrast to the infamous jellybeans that were sometimes shipped with a hammer

jellybeans candy corn

@rpstrong On the front porch, in the package that was silently dropped off by FXG, positioned in a particularly sunny spot so that it could reach outdoor ambient temp plus a few degrees, although just sitting in hot trailers and delivery trucks had probably done the job by then.