Eli5: Why are the biggest & best Potato chips on top?

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Something I always wondered.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

When the bag gets jumbled during transportation, it’s easier for the smaller chips to fall into the gaps between the larger chips that for a larger chip to fit into the gaps between the smaller chips. Repeat this bouncing hundreds or thousands of times, and the smallest bits will be at the bottom, with the largest chips at the top.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The smaller broken chips and crumbs fall through the gaps between the big, unbroken chips. Most of them end up at the bottom of the bag while the whole chips stay at the top because they can’t fall through each other.

Anonymous 0 Comments

its not that they are at the top, its the smaller bits and pieces that go below as they can pass through the spaces between the big pieces