Bearman Cartoon: Noisy SunChips

 

Noisy SunChips Bag Cartoon


Don’t know if SunChips (from Frito Lay) are available outside the United States but essentially it is a yummy multigrain chips that come in multiple flavors.   The wife and I have always been big fans…that is until EARTH DAY.



Bravo to Frito Lay for making something that not only is yummy but also is environmentally friendly.  That is until you actually pull the bag off the shelf.  It’s hard to explain but this guy shows you how annoying this new packaging is.



Now I am afraid to even go down the chip aisle for fear of someone grabbing a bag.   I mistakenly went down one day while the poor Frito Lay delivery guy was restocking the shelves.  I told him how bad I felt that he had to spend his day listening to that awful noise while stocking the SunChips.  He didn’t say anything but gave me a pleading look to help him find a way out of his misery.

Even now, there is a half eaten bag of SunChips in our kitchen.  It has been there way longer than normal, because neither of us want to grab the bag.  So Frito Lay I hope your intention in saving the environment wasn’t to send sales of SunChips into a downward spiral thus eliminating any potential waste.  Thankfully the singles haven’t made the move to the new packaging yet.

Comments

94 responses to “Bearman Cartoon: Noisy SunChips”

  1. CDowd Avatar

    lmao I hate these new bags! They really are the worst.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I thought I was alone until I was talking to a group of neighbors who said the same thing.

  2. Sheila Deeth Avatar

    Tragically not coeliac-friendly, or they weren’t last time I looked, so I get to listen to the bag and miss out on the flavor.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Gluten Free diets. Had a friend who had to be gluten free until she had a baby…then everything cleared up.

  3. nursemyra Avatar

    Couldn’t you just eat an apple instead? 😉

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Leave it to the nurse to suggest something ultra healthy.

    2. lynn Avatar

      an apple!! brilliant comment here but it just makes too much sense. 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Yes…healthy foods around here are sensical but not really needed.

  4. Nate Fakes Avatar

    I hate noisy bags AND food. I don’t buy Kit-Kats because of that annoying commercial where everyone does the theme song by crunching into the bars. Auughhh! And people that eat chips during a movie should be shot.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      NOthing better than 8 month old tortilla chips and some oily cheese like substance floating on top.

  5. Friggin Loon Avatar

    Move over waterboarding, we have a new kid on the block 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’d frickin’ talk.

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Me too, as soon as I friggin sighted the bag 🙁

  6. Carlo Avatar

    Whoa! While we do have SunChips in my country, we do not have this irritating bag! I had to stop the Youtube video a mere few seconds in cause the noise startled my fellow doctors here!
    Great cartoon as usual, Bearman! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Hopefully they didn’t inject the wrong patient.

      Maybe it is just time before they start shipping them your way.

  7. bschooled Avatar

    WE have those in Canada as well.

    But luckily we also have ear muffs…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Don’t act like it is cold there now Nanuck of the North.

  8. Roland Avatar

    ACK! My wife and I can not stand the new bag. Even 4 out of 6 of my kids were commenting on it!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      What were the other 2 kids doing?

  9. Scott Oglesby Avatar

    Holy shit a Sun Chip bag turns into a flower when you plant it? What will they think of next?

    There is nothing more annoying than when I’m trying to watch a movie and The Wife starts going in and out of the chips bag. You’d think I hadn’t told her to just get a bowl a thousand times before.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But when you get a bowl you have to predetermine how much you are going to eat. With a bag, you don’t have to think.

      1. lynn Avatar

        well then that should be very easy for you bman. oohh for some reason i was just thinking that i was just thinking that comment. *oops*

          1. lynn Avatar

            what do yo mean? my comment made perfect sense to me.

          2. bearman Avatar

            Of course it did

  10. jammer5 Avatar

    Dude, you empty the bag into a bowl, then give the sunchips bag to the cat 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Like I need our cat to be any more annoying.

  11. G Avatar

    Well…….so much for trying to sneak a snack late at night/early in the morning. Sure glad that I don’t drop $4 for a bag of SunChips.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You bring up a good point. Maybe I should line my doors and windows with it and use it for home security.

    2. lynn Avatar

      $4 for a lousy bag o’ chips? gez, this bearman guy must be rich!

      1. bearman Avatar

        Rich in friends….rich in friends.

  12. Ahmnodt Heare Avatar

    I also had a rant today about a commercial. My rant is against Volkswagen and the violence it covertly suggests.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Reading your post, it sound like it is promoting sexual deviancy.

  13. susispice Avatar

    what a good intruder alert,
    annoying your annoying neighbour with at 4am on a sunday
    give to your 4 yr old nephew to take on his long ride home after your brother wouldnt stop him from jumping on your brand new couch

    ahh so many wonderful things u could do with this bag haha

    ive never seen it, nor have it hear as far as i know

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Haha…I could just see my nephew with that. “Give that to me” NO! “Give that to me” No.

    2. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

      You are beginning to be a great inspiration for me for Mildred’s Happy Thoughts. Thanks.

  14. Brad Avatar

    I just flew through Charlotte. My God, you Americans have so many more delicious flavours of ANY chip then us cold Canucks.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Better start making a run for the border.

      1. susispice Avatar

        brad what a shameful traitor to your country!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Doesn’t everyone want to be an American?? haha

          1. susispice Avatar

            if thats the case…god have mercy on us all….

            but i must say the guy in this video is HOT HOT HOT..hehe

          2. bearman Avatar

            Spoken like a true single woman.

  15. lynn Avatar

    i’ve never had sunchips but i have seen them in the stores. (i rarely do any processed food) i’m pretty sure that once the new packaging starts effecting frito lay’s profit margin this noisy bag’s history. i read that in the UK this snaack food is known as sunbites.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’m sure Frito Lay is doing just fine. But you know they did get rid of my Fat Free Doritos that I haven’t quite forgiven them for.

  16. Dan McGinley Avatar

    Hahahahahahaha and . . . HA! It reminds me of Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when he invented a device to keep glasses on your nose, and then it made everyone cross-eyed. Sometimes the best-laid plans go to waste. Get it? Compostable waste? Sorry Bear. Great post. I hate that friggin’ sound.

    1. lynn Avatar

      i loved the jerk… “all i need is this ashtray, this book and this lamp…” 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        That along with the Twilight series, I just don’t get. Maybe the Jerk was the Twilight of its time.

        1. lynn Avatar

          i dont get twilight! isnt that a vampire series?

  17. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    If people put all these things into effect to save the planet there ain’t goin’ to be any people left. Then who are they savin’ it for?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Me. I plan to be last man standing.

      1. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

        Not me. I will be sitting there beside you while you are standing. I might even be in a hammock. Go ahead and stand though Bearman even though there won’t be anyone else but me to criticize you for takin’ a break.

  18. MJ Avatar

    Does that mean they are considering renaming then Roughles!?! Ha,ha,ha!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well they are high in fiber.

  19. George Avatar

    I don’t even like the faded look of the bags. I used to eat Sun Chips all the time back in the day, but I won’t touch ’em now with that old, burlap sack-looking bag. Ugh! I’m a real sucker for good marketing and bright colors. 😀

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Blue, Orange, and Red is what I see. Burlap…what bag you looking at?

  20. blunt delivery Avatar

    omg. that video was hilarious.

    i guess i won’t be sneaking those inside my purse to go to the movies.

    bummer.

    p.s. i didn’t know you had a wife for some reason?!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s because you don’t pay attention.

      1. blunt delivery Avatar

        okay. my life is a mess. trying to keep track of every person i associate with on the internet’s love life also – is a bit daunting.

        forgive me?

  21. womaninblack Avatar

    ‘Sunchips’? In the UK, this would be part of a sentence, ie ‘What’s nice to eat in the sun? Chips.’ And the chips would be potato ones. You guys and your crazy lingo.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I used to wonder when we went to Captain Ds or Arthur Treachers as a kid and I ordered Fish and Chips, why I always got fries instead.

  22. SpilledInkGuy Avatar
    SpilledInkGuy

    WHAT?! DID SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING?! I CAN’T SEEM TO HEAR A THING OVER ALL THE CRUNCHY NOISES IN HERE TODAY! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You mean over all the hammering and sawing you are supposed to be doing.

  23. jb Avatar

    Hoody dude loves the frito dude. He has that sweet crunchy goodness.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Frito Lay is my diet downfall.

  24. DadaHyena Avatar

    Let’s all just hope that no one ever makes toilet paper just as noisy.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well it might not be all bad if it muffles the other sounds coming out of the bathroom.

  25. lisleman Avatar

    I have not heard of this and apparently should have heard it miles away. I need to go buy some. I liked the chips when they first came out but have not had them recently.

    I think we should start a Sun Chip bag band.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      1812 Overture might work out well.

  26. Ron-Yves Avatar

    The black dude with the pitch-fork and the hockey-hair is great touch—I love the Garden Salsa version of those things…

    You can also crush them up and use them to bread chicken—deep-fry the shiz and you’re the kitchen hero…I’ve been there…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s a woman!!! haha

      I have done that with doritos and chicken but never sun chips. Might have to try that.

      1. Ron-Yves Avatar

        …a woman? Her jaw is bigger than her boobs—next time: Small chin & huge guns…this will make it easier for knuckleheads like myself 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Nah…then you will say the transvestite with the pitch fork…

          1. lynn Avatar

            i like transvestites, especially the good ones! they confuse my brain in a good way. did i go off-topic here?

          2. bearman Avatar

            Good as in nice or good as in convincing? You? Off topic?? NEVER

  27. Kurtis Avatar

    I think the Sun Chip bags will make excellent noise makers at sporting events! Could you imagine an entire football stadium with Sun Chip bags? The other team may decide not to show up!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      And possibly the home team as well.

      1. jillsy Avatar

        could compete with the vevuzela!!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          ooh…Great Idea. I might have to market them to those countries that won’t allow the vevuzela to be imported.

  28. jillsy Avatar

    Hmmm…haven’t bought a bag in awhile. I’ll have to check it out in the store and annoy some shoppers! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Head over to the deli and everytime someone tries to place an order rattle the bag so they can’t be heard. See how long before someone hits you.

  29. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    When a man does a comic on a potato chip bag and receives 70 comments on it I would say he is da man.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But at least half are mine so that doesn’t count.

  30. David Avatar

    I haven’t had the (mis)fortune to try the new Sun Chips/bag, but that’s got me thinkin’… if it’s biodegradable, can we eat the bag? I mean, it turns into natural stuff right? I’ve eaten so many un-natural things in my life this new bag HAS to be better.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Probablly more fiber in the bag than in those Baked chips.

  31. Gruff Guano Avatar

    “Compostable items are made from plant materials such as corn, potato, cellulose, soy and sugar.”

    That means you can fry the bag, spice it up and eat it. Finally, always something left to eat when the bag is empty.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Why not make the bag out of the same plastic that they used to make those soda pop candys in plastic? We used to eat that crap.

  32. lisleman Avatar

    thanks for this post – It gave me an idea that I just posted. Of course I gave you a shout out.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Of course. Love being other’s inspiration.

  33. Denny DelVecchio Avatar

    Takes 718 years to decompose.

    But Denny likes the noise. Going to sample it for my next Hip Hop jam.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s the regular bag I think or this one if you don’t have the HOT compost system going. Whatever that means.

  34. Tony Avatar

    What a good idea but they have replaced earth pollution with noise pollution. I like the lady with the “Give us back the old bag”
    If I held up one of those someone would bring me my mother-in-law

    1. Bearman Avatar

      or worse. Your ex mother in law

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