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Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by pchristensen on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:47PM (#24237715)
My favorite story about unintended consequences of process improvement is the Vienna Sausage Factory: https://medium.com/dangerous-kitchen/vienna-sausages-a-guy-n...

Punch line - Sausages coming from a new modern factory didn't taste the same. The new, more efficient building removed a long transportation step where the partially finished sausages picked up flavors and scents coming from different parts of the factory. They had to create a new process to manually add those flavors that they were accidentally getting for free from the old factory layout.

Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by smabie on Friday August 21, 2020 @05:46PM (#24239210)
I wasn't aware Vienna sausage had any flavor in the first place. In my view, Vienna sausage is in the same category of food as spam, baloney, and wonder bread: total garbage.
Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by dpc_pw on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:16PM (#24239443)
Wrong. Quality sausages are awesome. Btw. There exist high quality spams as well. Never seen one in USA though.
Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better by smabie on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:30PM (#24239548)
No, i mean the Vienna sausage brand. Of course there's amazing sausage