How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by throwaway5752 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:00PM (#24539378)

If you go by the net weight and box dimensions on https://www.walmart.com/ip/Gorton-s-Crunchy-Breaded-Fish-Sti... that's equivalent to a cube 160 feet on each side (packaged volume of annual US fish stick consumption). Not disagreeing with your point, but interesting to visualize the scale of consumption.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by cgriswald on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:19PM (#24539462)

As a cube it would sit on roughly half or an American football field. On an everybody-else-football pitch it would cover the whole thing about 32 m deep. It’s both a tremendous amount and also absolutely nothing depending on your point of reference.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by samatman on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:22AM (#24539768)

There are around 24,000 high schools in the US. I'll take that number as a proxy for the number of football fields, because, while some high schools don't have one, there are also quite a few which are affiliated with college/universities or municipalities.

So that's about six cubic yards per football field, or about enough to fill a couple of standard freezer sections at a supermarket.

We can conclude from this that football players don't eat fish sticks very often, or there wouldn't be any left for anyone else!

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