# Jack Piper can eat no pretzels, his wife can eat no SunChips **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168 "2020-12-04T03:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/1 "2020-12-04T03:00:03Z")
Got a bag of mixed snax at the Petro-Can the other day. Gave it to Mrs Piper when she wanted some salty snax. She ate some, then gave me the bag and said, “Done for now, can you put in the cupboard?” As I put it away, I noticed that it was still pretty full; just that there were no pretzels left anywhere in the bag. Remembered that Mrs P. always mentions it as the “mixed snax with pretzels.” Clearly, her preferred treat in the bag. All that was left was SunChips and cheese doodles. Came down this morning and discovered that the Cub, who has erratic sleep habits, had been down in the middle of the night, and evidently found the bag. No SunChips left, only cheese doodles. I snarfed down the cheese doodles. “And so, between the three of them, they licked the platter clean.” ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/2 "2020-12-04T03:54:18Z")
You have a very well-balanced family! 😊 Do you do the same thing with Neapolitan ice cream? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/3 "2020-12-04T04:56:05Z")
Keep the bag away from me. I like pretzels, SunChips _and_ cheese doodles. There would be nothing left for any of you three. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/4 "2020-12-04T05:00:34Z")
I’m shocked that the cheese doodles were left for last. What is wrong with your family??? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/5 "2020-12-04T05:33:46Z")
get the cheese bag of Frito lays "munchies "It’s about 4 of their most popular chips with pretzels ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/6 "2020-12-04T06:15:05Z")
Nice example of team work. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/7 "2020-12-04T12:33:22Z")
Reading h the he OP, I realized there must be something wrong with me. Given a bag of mixed snacks, I feel compelled to eat each type evenly. When the bag is nearly empty there will be equal numbers of each type. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/8 "2020-12-04T13:55:11Z")
This may be crazy talk, but why not just buy a bag of pretzels, a bag of sun chips, and a bag of cheese doodles then? Maybe it’s a way to slow down and moderate consumption, similar to only buying unshelled pistachios-- the bags of shelled ones are calorically dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/9 "2020-12-04T15:40:48Z")
Nobody likes strawberry. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/10 "2020-12-04T15:41:46Z")
The Cub likes soft cheese doodles. These were hard ones. Me, I’m indifferent to the texture of cheese doodles. Mmmm - artificial cheesie goodness… ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/11 "2020-12-04T17:24:52Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > get the cheese bag of Frito lays "munchies "It’s about 4 of their most popular chips with pretzels The bag must state CHEESE munchies. There are other flavors but none so good as cheese (cheez) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/12 "2020-12-04T19:18:43Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’m shocked that the cheese doodles were left for last. What is wrong with your family??? They understand who brings home the bacon. And the snax. Do not steal the favored snax from the hand that keeps the heat on in winter. 😉 Back to the OP: It’s great when you can have a nice division of labor like that. Wife and I are more like “buy a bag of whatever-doodles and battle to the last one.” The difference in our tastes is so small as to make us clone-like. Then again, that means we don’t need 13 kinds of snax open to appease a bunch of disparate people and tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-piper-can-eat-no-pretzels-his-wife-can-eat-no-sunchips/927168/13 "2020-12-06T06:08:27Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Keep the bag away from me. I like pretzels, SunChips _and_ cheese doodles. There would be nothing left for any of you three An omnivore! I pick out the pretzels and throw them out, if it’s just me and the snax.