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

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      9 months ago

      If you want to get technical, aren’t grams a measure of mass, not weight, so a kitchen scale needs to assume a value for gravity’s acceleration to tell you grams, which could be slightly off depending where you are on earth?

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          Volume is not mass, and neither of them is weight. A gram is strictly speaking a measure of mass, and we just consider it to be a unit of weight in casual terms because the only frame of reference the vast majority of us have has reasonably constant gravity so we conflate mass and weight. That you can sort of use grams to measure volume is literally only because the density of common stuff (especially water) is close enough for most purposes. It’s kinda like measuring a distance in units of time so long as the method of travel is known. I can say “an hour’s walk” and I’m not really measuring distance there but you know roughly how far I mean

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      9 months ago

      I think its a fair question from a certain perspective.

      However, the law requires that the package contents contain at least as much as stated. If humidity is an issue, it’s up to the manufacturer to factor that in. Besides, this is dry pasta my friend.

      I also bought salami. It was 13 g short. It’s produced in the plant 4km from me.

      There are no excuses to short the customer and it is illegal.

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          9 months ago

          No you’re not curious lol You’re doing textbook sea lioning

          Go find someone else to mildly anmoy