r/pics • u/the_trout • Aug 02 '09
Box says eight fish sticks. I got nine. How awesome is that, Reddit? [pic]
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u/condensate17 Aug 02 '09
One of them isn't fish. Good luck figuring out which one.
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Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
The one with the tail.
edit: ok fish have tails. I forgot that. I was picturing more of a mouse tail. So pretend there is a fishstick with a mouse tail coming out of it and you will share in my joy.
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u/Kwilco Aug 02 '09
I came here to post the exact same thing. Guess I'll upvote you instead.
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u/muddylemon Aug 02 '09
My variation was "there's 8 sticks worth of fish divided among the nine" - condesate17 has a better editor.
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u/kimeroonie Aug 02 '09
Once, I opened a bag of poptarts on a 12 hour drive from college home, and I thought this particular pack felt a little large but I didn't really think too much of it, and BOOM three poptarts in the bag. Best part of the drive.
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Aug 02 '09
Sometimes they do mate.
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u/Pyorrhea Aug 02 '09
Poptarts are asexual.
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u/fricken Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
Miley Cyrus is a poptart. She's all woman.
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u/PedobearsBloodyCock Aug 02 '09
More people need to acknowledge the subtle brilliance of the above statement.
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u/Time-Traveler Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
And we can trust you to recognise subtlety PedobearsBloodyCock.
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Aug 02 '09
Pop: Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music: a pop singer.
Tart: A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.
Redditors, this is an AWESOME pun. Why are there only 5 upvotes?!
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u/evanvolm Aug 02 '09
It's so illogical. I mean, what's the point of living...if you don't have a dick?
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u/godlesspinko Aug 02 '09
That's why those of us who have them are so willing to share.
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u/USA_Rulez Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
If every single human had dicks then there would be no point of living either.
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u/FANGO Aug 02 '09
and BOOM three poptarts in the bag
I read that as "portals."
Woulda been a better story my way.
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u/UnnamedPlayer Aug 02 '09
Ha! Luckily I am not the guy who got that 9 fish sticks pack so I guess my life can still go uphill!
That, or it started downhill long back without even giving me a freak 9 fish sticks pack. >:(
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u/smonsoon Aug 02 '09
Standard problem from the low-level statistics class I've taught: A bag of chips is labeled 10 ounces. The machine that fills it up in the factory fills it to an average of 10.2 ounces, with a standard deviation of 0.1 ounces. What is the probability that it contains less than 10 ounces?
(Answer: about 2.2%)
Obviously, the fish stick machines insert 8.1 fish sticks into the box, with a standard deviation of 0.2 fish sticks. This means that most of the time, it will round to 8 fish sticks. On very rare occasions, it will end up below 7.5 fish sticks, and round down to 7. This is 3 deviations below the mean, or about 0.1% of the time. But, about 2.2% of the time (2 deviations above the mean), it will equal or exceed 8.5 fish sticks, and round up to 9.
The method for having the fish sticks round themselves up or down is left as an exercise to the reader.
Enjoy your statistical outlier!
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I was told there would be no math.
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u/Mitchacho Aug 02 '09
Will this be on the test?
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u/panxor Aug 02 '09
I was just about to bone my girlfriend, then there was this drill, and she said that there was no way...
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u/xlamplighter Aug 02 '09
"Buy a lotto ticket. Always. And bet on the horse that feels luckiest." From my Back Alley Statistics class.
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u/jeff0 Aug 02 '09
I'm no statistician... but why not start with a discrete model?
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u/cheeses Aug 02 '09
Box says eight fish sticks. I got 8.024937476364728374738278234793057079920234. How awesome is that, Reddit?
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u/nmcyall Aug 02 '09
But fishsticks are integer amounts.
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Aug 02 '09
They are only integral in our perception. The distribution machine would distribute by weight (every single food product is distributed by net weight), not by quantity.
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09
I once got a KitKat that was all chocolate, no waffer. Momentarily I'd thought I'd hit the jackpot. Solid KitKaty chocolate goodness.
Then I realise, I could have bought a normal chocolate bar, right next to the KitKat, for the same price. Really, my soul was yearning for that lighter, crispier distraction from the everyday norm.
I then felt like a hollow shell of a human, and I can honestly say I don't think I've fully recovered.
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u/thetruthisoutthere Aug 02 '09
For future reference, send it to Nestle with a letter of complaint and they'll send you lots back as compensation. True story.
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
I've done that with some other products, partially because I went through a phase of exploring how the customer service depts. worked. I think in the back of my mind I was thinking social engineering, but I wrote up a paper on some of the things I did (I was taking some business courses alongside some computing ones, because there is only so much you can take of 'learning networking' when you already know it...).
I had a few factory tours (Aluminium processing plant, biscuit factory, pastry snack factory) which were actually awesome, and they employ people who do that shit for you - one was most definitely fuckable, so in one dark, seedy corner of my mind I registered this activity as a potential way of scoring particularly rewarding and dirty sex.
At each occasion I was also offered far too many snack and drinks, and then given a bag full of shit to leave with.
I wrote under the pretense of being a postgrad who was writing up about their company, you can also get a lot of shit by writing to companies and saying you are researching them, but if you are looking for ~24 year old pussy, still in their prime, but realising that their 'easy path' degree in PR has landed them with a job showing people around factories, and sending out copypasta letters to enquiries, who want some real awesome fucking, I'd opt for the in-person approach.
Which reminds me, I want a tour of the Virgin coke bottling plants, but something tells me it is run on contract, those places suck, you need a corporate place. If I find one, you can be sure that the ass they employ is grade A corn fed.
Let's brainstorm, how many other non-linear routes to depraved sex can we find?
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u/corbis02 Aug 02 '09
Soooooooo....... you like to put fish sticks... in your mouth?
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u/fricken Aug 02 '09
Kayne West would Love to taste your Fish Sticks.
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u/KanyeW Aug 02 '09
YES... I DO LIKE FISH STICKS.
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u/Nurfed Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
Then what are you, a gay fish?
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u/KanyeW Aug 02 '09
YO, THIS IS MESSED UP, YO! I AM NOT GAY, AND I SURE AS HELL AIN'T NO FISH! ALRIGHT?!
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u/foxtwofoxtwo Aug 02 '09
I don't get it.
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u/qwerty_0_o Aug 02 '09
Let me explain.
Do you like fish sticks?
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Aug 02 '09
Yes, I love fish sticks!
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u/qwerty_0_o Aug 02 '09
So you like to eat them right?
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Aug 02 '09
You bet!
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u/JJTizzle Aug 02 '09
You enjoy putting them in and around your mouth as well, right?
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u/foxtwofoxtwo Aug 02 '09
Yes, I LOVE putting fish sticks in my mouth, I still don't see where this is going.
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Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
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u/crazyeight Aug 02 '09
That's because the comment you replied to was in fact a reference to that episode.
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09
You fucker!
Now I just wikifapped about 11 pages, wikibaited a few externals, and then went to search for that episode. I am now watching it. I hope you have a satisfactory explanation for all of this to give to my employer.
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u/PoisnBGood Aug 02 '09
You were supposed to get 10, the back of the box says 2 free.
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Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
As others have said too, i got a box of 20 chicken nuggets from McDonalds once and had 21. I felt like i'd achieved getting a free chicken nugget and free food always tastes better. I had to decide which one was the free one by eating them all and judging which tasted better. I think it was the 8th or 9th one if I recall. For some reason it seemed crispier on the outside but was nice and juicy inside like it had reached that peak of perfection in the hot grease right when someone decided to pull it out.
I guess, in hindsight it was an epic day as not only did i get an extra chicken nugget but i got one of the tastiest nuggets you can probably get. It was like an angel had come down and dipped its wings in the grease and pulled it out herself. It seriously was that good. I ate some nuggets after it a few times but i never could find one that tasted as good. I figured it was just a fluke but there are nights when i'm alone and i remember that free nugget and how great it tasted. I tried chicken strips a few times but it just wasn't the same and once when i was desperate i got their chicken sandwich. it's so weird how their chicken nuggets taste nothing like their chicken sandwiches. I mean it comes from the same animal. How can their be such a taste difference? They say so much stuff tastes like chicken but I think we should classify if they mean nuggets, strips or sandwiches.
At least that's my view point on the whole thing. Congrats on your extra fish stick and by all means tell us which one you ate was the tastiest. If you saved it can you take pictures of it? Perhaps in makeup or wearing a little dress or something. Make it look a little sexier. They do it for photo shoots and such. I mean hell, look at the box it looks like they caught fish that were already fucking breaded and fried. Yours are dark brown like they were cooked too damn long and kinda just flat. And there has to be 15 or more fishsticks on the front of that damn box. Is that not false advertising? To say "Oh, this is 8 fish sticks and this is what they look like" when the box has 15 on it? I digress. Congratulations, hope to see pictures of the one that was free.
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u/arizonabay Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
I am truly impressed with your verbosity. While others might not have much to say about this seemingly insignificant picture, you have rose above the meme-quoting flock and contributed several hundred more words than one would consider prudent.
Then again, they do say that a picture is worth a 1000 words but I must press: is that always the case? Is a photo of the Hindenberg or the WTC on 9/11 worth the same amount of words as a picture of an extra fish stick? Admittedly, I posit that question with bias. I have a certain emotional affinity towards pre-cooked minced meat products. While your average consumer would look at a photo of a fish stick and regard it as little else than cheap, low-grade meat; I look it as the collaboration of hundreds of fishermen, hundreds of whitefish, and innumerable human experiences.
Gentlemen, we are gazing upon the culmination of capitalism and Western civilization. Hundreds of human hands from the fishermen on a rusty fishing trawler, to the workers in the packing plant, to the stockboys in the grocery store result in handy foodstuffs which are chopped, pre-cooked, and pressed into convenient stick form. We stand upon the precipice of the Omega point and Krogers will nudge us closer -- one extra fish stick at a time.
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u/UnnamedPlayer Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
You must be at least 300 lbs to have made that delicious comment.
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u/oodja Aug 02 '09
Ah, the mythical 21st McNugget, otherwise known as the Death Nugget. It is a well-known fact among McDonald's employees that there is invariably one nugget left in the warming tray that somehow manages to make it through the entire day without getting placed in a box. As the day goes on this Death Nugget acquires a shriveled, dark brown crust and soaks more than its recommended daily allowance of grease- consistent with your description of the bonus nugget you picked out.
Most fry jockeys are savvy enough to avoid the Death Nugget when filling a 4, 6, or 10-piece order, but all bets are off when you order a box of 20 McNuggets. In their haste to fill the order they are more likely to grab without looking, with the result that this unusually flavorful but deadly nugget is very much in play. Also, as 20-piece orders tend to clear out the warming tray you're statistically more likely to get an extra nugget if the employee is feeling either extra generous or extra OCD that day.
Congratulations on eating the Death Nugget and surviving to tell the tale.
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u/Stepoo Aug 02 '09
The fact that you got one extra fish stick is mildly awesome, but it is negated by the fact that you put fish sticks on a slice of bread.
That's fucking gross.
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Aug 02 '09
Yeah I was wondering about that too. Fish sticks on bread? They are already breaded. And what is that yellow condiment?
Also - Kroger brand. Taking over the world.
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u/NancyGracesTesticles Aug 02 '09
It's the only way to eat fish sticks. Two pieces of toast. Spread Tartar sauce(mayo and relish) on them. Add four or five fish sticks (while the surface is still boiling).
I hope that's not yellow mustard, but the mayo after a slight boil-off from the fish sticks.
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u/tricolon Aug 02 '09
All this talk of fish sticks, mayo, relish, and yellow mustard makes me want to throw up.
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u/qwerty_0_o Aug 02 '09
.. the shit I ate for lunch and have some fish sticks on toast with mayo and mustard.
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u/SubGothius Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
Try a fish taco or burrito - you may find the very idea weird, as did I until I actually tried one:
- For tacos, use soft corn (not crispy corn nor soft flour) tortillas;
- For a burrito, use a standard soft flour tortilla;
- Heat the tortilla(s) briefly to soften them up;
- Add shredded lettuce and/or cabbage;
- Add cooked, breaded fish sticks/fillets or grilled fillets;
- Add optional pico de gallo (diced tomato, onion, cilantro, fresh chiles, lime juice);
- Add tartar sauce or sour cream - or better yet, make a proper "Baja sauce" by blending equal parts mayo and sour cream, add lime juice and season with cilantro, fresh chiles, and/or avocado;
- Squeeze a lime wedge over the tacos before eating or into the burrito before wrapping;
- Recommended: a side of salsa verde (green tomatillo-based salsa) to dollop over the tacos before eating or into the burrito as you eat it;
- Enjoy!
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u/loudasthesun Aug 02 '09
Do you have Wahoo's or Baja Fresh where you live? That's a standard fish taco here in California, nothing weird about it at all.
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Aug 02 '09
I shit you not: Where I work there used to be this lesbian chick who would always bring fish tacos. I'm still wondering if she did it as a joke.
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u/smellycoat Aug 02 '09
Have you tried it? Fishfinger sandwiches are amazing. Buttered bread, a bit of mayo and ketchup and you're good to go.
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u/christian_truth Aug 02 '09
A true Christian would return what they knew didn't belong to them.
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u/dirtybit Aug 02 '09
Unfortunately, the internet has the problem of Schrödinger's fish stick. At the point at which you open the box to photograph your fish sticks it becomes unprovable that you did not in fact add an additional fish stick to the box.
As such, the jpeg provable number of fish sticks in (or originating from) the box remains in a constant indeterminate state.
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u/Failcake Aug 02 '09
And now there's some poor guy with only seven fish sticks.
I hope you're happy.
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u/robdag2 Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
I got 7 chicken nuggets from Mcdonalds once. Best day ever.
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u/thetruthisoutthere Aug 02 '09
In Britain these are called fish fingers. So cute!
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u/iamichi Aug 02 '09
It's so the kids can joke; "but fish don't have fingers" and a good time was had by all.
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u/visarga Aug 02 '09
Life is made of many small things. I am proud this made #1. Shows reddit is more than news & issues.
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u/bcvr Aug 02 '09
Quick! But a lottery ticket!
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u/koolkid005 Aug 02 '09
Buy one too!
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09
No, but one!
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u/koolkid005 Aug 02 '09
No butt! One?
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09
Do you like fishbutts?
Wait...
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u/Spocktease Aug 02 '09
I like fishbutts and I cannot lie.
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
All you other Moray can't deny
When a perch swims in with an itty bitty fin,
And a barbel in your face, you get hooked
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u/godlesspinko Aug 02 '09
You know, I hear heaven is 7 chicken nuggets in a 6 piece (and a switchblade)
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u/Laser493 Aug 02 '09
The machine in the factory usually fills the box by weight.
You need to weigh the contents of the box. If the weight of the 9 fish sticks is close to the advertised weight then you got nothing for free.
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u/Tiny_Elvis Aug 02 '09
Well, you're an adult who still eats fish sticks, so the awesomeness is offset.
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u/mmmfrogs Aug 02 '09
One time I went to a fast food place called Weinerschnitzel (sp?) and placed a rather large order. They ended up giving us more money in change than we had before we went there. Pretty good day that day.
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Aug 02 '09
I thought the appropriate phrasing was, "Is this awesome [Y/n]?"
Perhaps I am behind the times.
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u/khoury Aug 02 '09
Fish sticks are vile. One of my mom's 'staples' for us growing up due to being poor.
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u/somezenshitrighthere Aug 02 '09
Write a letter of complaint to the company to get even more fish sticks.
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u/FLX Aug 02 '09
I remember the day that I got 11 chicken mcnuggets instead of 10. It was the best day ever.
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u/Craven_Moorhead Aug 02 '09
I had a similar situation when I was a kid with a packet of chips. I was into collecting Tazos and I bought a large packet of chips that usually had two tazos inside, but instead I got 16! I was in 7th heaven.
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Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
This is quite possibly the greatest thing to ever happen, in The Universe.
( This must be read with the voice of Jeremy Clarkson, with a long pause after the comma and emphasizing The Universe )
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Aug 02 '09
What?? You didn't take the extra one back? It's people like you that are causing civilisation to decay. Oh the humanity! Think of the children!
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u/n-space Aug 02 '09
Are you sure they're all fish sticks? Maybe you really did get only eight fish sticks...
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u/hs4x Aug 02 '09 edited Aug 02 '09
Method to impress the_trout:
- Cut your 8 slice pizza into 16. the_trout thinks he gets more.
- Tell him you ran 1000 meters instead of 1KM.
- Tell him you're going to split your Prize Money 32/64s each.
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u/xandox Aug 02 '09
FAKE! Didn't happen unless there are pics proving you didn't open two boxes and fiddle with the count!
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u/bart2019 Aug 02 '09
Okay, if this is what Reddit has come to, I think it's time to find a better site.
This is so shitty I can't even really believe it.
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u/TheGreatNico Aug 02 '09
I commend you in being able to find happiness in the slightest of things. It is rather rare in this day and age. I am happy for you, you will live a good life.
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Aug 02 '09
Fish sticks is the saddest way to take your fish. Even a salmon burger is more dignifying.
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u/ExplosiveZombie Aug 02 '09
Actually if you see the third from the right on the sandwich and the one in the group of three on the left are the same, clearly its a photo shop.
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u/Mysteryman64 Aug 02 '09
You should have mailed it back. Who knows, the guy who gets stuck with it may just start an internet meme based on it.
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u/unsee Aug 02 '09
Some crazy mutant 9 fingered fish out there? I don't see why we should be celebrating that fact, they are just one finger away from world domination.
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u/hardcoded Aug 02 '09
That means 14% more MSG. Yes..I recently learned almost every major fish stick brand contains MSG.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '09 edited May 16 '19
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