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Article created by: Ieva Pečiulytė

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines slack-fill as the difference between the size of a container and the volume of product contained therein. And while the agency does try to hunt down the misleading ones that do not allow the consumer to fully view its contents, every potato chips lover would tell you that they still hit the shelves.

Luckily, there's the r/NonFunctionSlackFill subreddit that works hard to expose them — its 49.1K members regularly share pictures of packages looking like they were intentionally designed to lure away our money. Continue scrolling to check out the most infuriating examples.

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Buoyancy

Two students paddling a raft made of potato chip bags, highlighting misleading packaging with too much air inside.

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Naz Fride
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7 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They probably have nitrogen in them instead of air, to keep them fresh longer. There's also addition air inside the big plastic bag but outside the chip bags. So this picture is misleading.

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    Sales Genius

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    These Were £5...guess I Should Have Checked The Weight. 330ml Coke For Scale

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    This Jumbo Tube Is Only Filled To The Letter E

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    #16

    I Get That Samples Are Samples, But What A Waste Of Plastic

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    Once You Turn This Jar Of Sprinkles Upside Down, You See The Real Quantity

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    Coloring Book For My Son

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    You Can Probably Imagine My Daughter's Disappointment When We Opened Up This Crayola "Super Art Tub"

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    An Entire Box Of Ice Creams Like This

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    2/5 Away

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    There’s Just Enough To Fit In The Window

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    $20 For 11 Chocolates. Happy Valentines

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    Just Enough To Make It To The Line

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    An Entire Tin Containing 8 Mini Snickers

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    This Vegan Ground Meat

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    7 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you have to cook vegan meat?

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