Canada Will Not Be Denied Its Combat-Jet-Loud SunChips Bags

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Hearing loss be damned! Our rugged northern neighbours are defiantly standing behind the Frito-Lay bag that’s louder than a combat jet cockpit, a month after we namby-pamby Americans had them yanked from our shelves. Oh, Canada!


August 19, 2010
Science

SunChips’ New 100% Compostable Bag Is Ear-Damagingly Loud

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There’s one kinda big problem with SunChips’ new 100 per cent compostable bag: It’s noisy as hell. An Air Force pilot says it’s louder than the cockpit of his jet, and this video test pegs it at a potentially damaging 95 decibels.