More questions are popping up as more reports of under-filled food packages surface on social media. This time, it’s salty snacks. And these incidents are so extreme, it’s hard to dismiss them as accidental…
@tatianaaaatt @Frito-Lay ♬ original sound – Tatiana 🧜🏼♀️
The paen of online outrage over under-filled food packages was triggered by a TikTok video (above) posted by a ticked-off Walmart shopper. ‘Tatiana’ (@tatianaaatt) bought a single-serving bag of Frito-Lay Funyuns, but sensed something was ‘off’ about it. The bag didn’t rattle like is should have when she shook it.
She waited to open it until she had her vid gear set up, and ‘broke the seal’ in front of the camera. Even she was surprised by what she found inside…
Some kind of joke?
“Who’s trying to be funny?” Tatiana asks the audience, suppressing a giggle and confirming the bag contains only a single onion snack. “That’s not right.” According to the label, the bag was supposed to contain 42 of the puffed treats.
“So, someone from Frito-Lay, you need to be fired,” Tatiana declares. And she goes on to suggest, “@FritoLay send me some more chips. Imaoo cause [someone who] work[s] there did that?”
Witty backlash…
“…I would have called the FBI, CIA, Scooby Doo and the Gang,” wrote one commenter, who indicated they thought Frito-Lay wouldn’t respond as Tatiana hoped.
“I’d rather it be empty than have just one single chip 😭😭,” said another.
“Even the crumbs are missing 😂😭,” noted a third.
Not just Tatiana
Another online denizen remembered a similar incident earlier this year. Redditor DanoCC (r/mildlyinfuriating) had an almost identical experience with a single-serve bag of Doritos. A load of air to puff up the bag, but only 1 chip and a couple of crumbs. Which might be considered a tiny improvemenet over Tatiana’s bag, which didn’t even have any crumbs.
“That’s the saddest thing I’ve seen all day,” one Redditor commented.
“Doritos Cool Ranch: Weight Watchers Edition,” quipped another.
My take
It’s significant to note that Doritos and Funyuns are both made by Frito Lay, which is wholly owned by Pepsico.
But… Even if these badly-botched attempts at filling retail packages were accidental… Where was Quality Control? On break? Off sick that day?
This is not the kind of publicity any manufacturer wants. You’d think Frito-Lay would take a greater interest in the situation. And make PR hay about fixing the problem and making the affected customers ‘whole’…
~ Maggie J.