Why Can There Never Be a Perfect Salsa to Chip Ratio?

"Ahh Tortilla chips and salsa, such an amazing snack after a long day of life," chip guy spoke.

*After much eating*

Astonished, Chip guy whined, "Wait what the fuck? I thought I got enough chips for this salsa. I guess I will go grab some more chips."

*After much more eating*

"Holy shit, now I have no salsa and too many chips."

Has this ever happened to you? Cause I know it just happened to me last night. My buddy Cool Guy 9000 (name was changed to protect his identity) and I last night were chowing down on some nice chips and salsa. All was fine and dandy till we ran out of the special sauce - salsa. Okay, but that's perfectly reasonable, Cool Guy 9000 can just go get more chips.

After more successful munching and crunching through the help of the newly gathered chips, Cool Guy 9000 and I both realized that there was still salsa left. There it was folks, the question was born. Why Can There Never Be a Perfect Salsa to Chip Ratio?

Through the years of living on planet earth surely humans should have built an instinct to the salsa and chip ratio. Wrong. Think about it. How many different types of chips are there? And how many types of salsa are there? Answer to both of these questions is A LOT. Humans are not advanced enough creatures to develop the proper ratio skills with all this variability.



If  you focused on one brand of tortilla chips (I.E. Your classic tostitos) and a singular brand of slasa (I.E. I'm not even sure), you would think that after many months of "salsa-ing the chips" you'd get the ratio correct. Wrong once again. Have you forgotten about the fifth law of thermodynamics; "Chips in clumps and salsa in dumps may never be equal to whom it is severing."

Folks that is why the chip and salsa ratio are never perfect.


P.S. In a serious note it probably due to the irregular shape of the chips inside the bowl, as it is very difficult to judge how many chips you have. Also for the chips you have to take into account how large the chips are in size. The ones at the bottom of the chip bowl are usually crushed and smaller than the ones on top. This makes the chips on the bottom have a slight reduction in carrying capacity. Once you start eating chips and salsa you usually eat each chip (or try to) with varrying amounts of salsa on it at once as you're trying to use all the salsa by the last chip. Possibly the smallness of the bottom layered chips don't get factored into play which results in poor salsa chip judgement.

As for the salsa, it's just salsa.

Overall my best guess is it's due to the variability of the chips as it's difficult to determine the overall carrying capacity.