It seems like all packaged foods do this now

Krudler@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 807 points –

I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

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5/16 oz

How many football fields to the gallon is that? On a serious note this is something far better expressed as a fraction than an amount of difference for one specific container size...

You can't divide 5/16 by 5?

It's not really clear whether the variance scales linearly with weight. We only know 1 data point. It could be bracketed for different weight groups.

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