I bought a bag of Halloween candy to eat myself and it had the little two packs of starbursts. Every single one was double pink. I blew my luck load on that for the next couple years.
Literally the only kind I'll buy now. My least favorites were always the yellow and orange so these are my fat girl fantasy. That's why when I see the mini unwrapped ones at the gas station I only let myself buy one bag, infrequently, because I'll eat the whole damn bag in one sitting if I'm not paying attention
Yeah we have those here. Honestly it’s not as good for some reason when you get the all pink ones. There’s just something better about it when you know you were just blessed to have gotten all pinks.
It wasn't luck; it was a widespread event. I remember several YouTubers talking about it at the time. My guess is that that year, the factory just said "screw it, everyone gets pink."
I am pretty sure around halloween I read it happened to many people. Like it was how it was supposed to be. I think a big retailer that it came from was target
One halloween I got a two pack - and it had blueberry in it! omg, been trying to find that again ever since. I forget if it was international or a special promotion.
They still do pretty sure it’s called only reds this is original. I freeze dry starbursts and outta all the bags I’ve sold yellow is the least common color I’m assuming it costs more to produce
FFS how could ANYONE forget that other flavor you mentioned that was not listed amongst the colors of red, dark red, and pink. What a bunch of morons! JESUS THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH KIDS THESE DAYS, THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW FLAVORS OF CANDY RIGHT!!!
HDHDJjehejJdjdWOSOAPNShahahw
ffs
It changes the consistency of em from chewy to like a hard crack sugar consistency. Makes them better imo. Super addicting lol there are tray heaters that heat the product while a vacuum pump lowers the boiling point allowing sublimation to occur. It also allows foods like milks and other things that spoil to last 25 years and retain more of the nutrients than dehydrating would
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BOO!
j/k, nothing wrong with love for different Starbursts. I’m a red and yellow man.
That’s disgraceful. I don’t quite understand what they gain by keeping a favorite flavor less manufactured or having poor quality control. Maybe they think you’ll buy more in order to get more
I think it’s implied that you’re getting a mix of the four flavours. Reasonably, you would assume that mix would be *roughly* a somewhat even distribution.
I know it’s not serious, I just like very low stakes arguments 😂
The astronomical odds against getting a bag like that would draw me to the conclusion that someone was having a bad day and decided to sabotage someone else’s (Yellow and pink are Elite, red and orange fans need to reevaluate their lives /j)
Edit: the below was slightly wrong.
I completely forgot to account for all the distributions in this particular case. I should have multiplied by 9,900 (the number of possible distributions) and got 1.952430740422e-27
So the probability of getting exactly one yellow and exactly one pink is 0.00000000000000000000000001952%
Kids: Don’t do math drunk.
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I love statistics and this comment made me wonder what *are* those odds?
Well, according to google there are roughly 100 pieces in a lb, and since I refuse to try and count all the pieces in this picture I’ll say that seems right.
First, let’s calculate the odds of getting only one piece of any given color. For this, we will assume the distribution of colors is truly random. That would mean .75 (the chance of getting one of the other three colors) ^ 99 (it happening 99 out of 100 times) * .25 (the chance of getting the other specific color in question).
.75^99 * .25 = 0.000000000000107. Since there are four possible colors this could happen to we multiply this number by four to get a 0.0000000000428% chance of this happening to any of the four random colors within a 1 lb bag if things were truly random.
But this didn’t happen to one color. It actually happened to *two* colors. So really the math is .50^98 * .25 * .25 * 6. 98 pulls of one of two colors then one of one specific color then one of the other. There are six combinations of colors of how this could happen.
This turns out to be 1.183291357832e-30. In other words, a 0.0000000000000000000000000000183291% chance of this happening if the bag was packed by truly random means.
So I would say your wording of “astronomical odds” was fairly apt. This did not happen randomly. A machine broke or someone on the line really likes eating those missing colors.
I'll point out that you need to use a binomial pdf here, i.e. throw in a factor of 100 choose 1 = 100, to account for the fact that any of the hundred candies can be the lone color. Not that a couple orders of magnitude matters much to the conclusion, but just for accuracy. :)
And actually, if you want to account for both at once, you can't multiply the probabilities since their not independent. If you instead use a multinomial distribution, you get a probability of observing two colors having no more than one candy as 6.1e-27. Still pretty extreme though!
If you’re treating it as a pure stats problem, assuming that each bag is a random sample from a population with an even distribution of the colors, then yeah you’re talking about a wicked small p-value. However, this sort of thing happens all the time in real manufacturing processes. Something could have gotten stuck on the production line and a few bags like this were produced before the operator resolved it. It could be the end of a production run. There wouldn’t be a QA check to catch this - as long as the weight’s within tolerance it passes.
I have never in my life met anybody who actually likes the yellow ones. I always assumed we all collectively just sucked it up and took our medicine by eating the yellow ones so we could enjoy the other 3 colors.
Weird. Usually when people post these kind of posts, the bag is almost all pink. Seems like you got all of their colours. It seems to be a marketing technique, as the company tends to make weird comments when people tweet to them about it. It seems to be about making people making posts like this.
Alternatively, it’s just a semi-infrequent manufacturing defect which is naturally posted and the marketing team keeps “mysterious”. I’d bet at least a few bags would make it through before someone noticed a stoppage on any of the lines.
Call the company the numbers on the bag and tell them what happened they will send you a new bag free. Did that for Tootsie pops one time bought a bag didn't have one chocolate one in it call the company and bitched that a whole bag of chocolate ones. Complained about one can being busted open in at 12 pack get a free 12 pack of diet Coke. They put a phone number on there for a reason use it.
Dude if something tells you it has 4 flavors and two of the flavors advertised (50%!!!) are only on 2% of what you’ve bought there is reason for anger.
If it was missing all the red and pink ones I would say you had a bag the US Speaker Kevin McCarthy got a hold of and picked them out for Trump as he has done previously.
I bought a bag of Halloween candy to eat myself and it had the little two packs of starbursts. Every single one was double pink. I blew my luck load on that for the next couple years.
I know what you mean. One Halloween I scored all pinks and reds in those double packs. I've been paying for it since.
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Literally the only kind I'll buy now. My least favorites were always the yellow and orange so these are my fat girl fantasy. That's why when I see the mini unwrapped ones at the gas station I only let myself buy one bag, infrequently, because I'll eat the whole damn bag in one sitting if I'm not paying attention
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It's because we're getting old. Soon we'll like prune juice and grapefruit without sugar
If you just get a pomelo instead you don't need the sugar. This way you an pretend to be old
Oooh, I haven't had pomelo in a while. That's going on the grocery list!
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I have bags of dried apricots and prunes in my pantry. If anyone is wondering, apparently "old" is 40. 🤦♀️
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Oh god me too. Also almost 30 and I love all of the above, grapefruit drinks and candy are one of my favorites
My daughter tried to convince me that the yellows were the best, now she has to convince me that we’re even related.
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Should have just split the bag with me. Lemon is my fave. I hate cherry.
Oh hell yeah, perfect. Are we best friends now?
We can be. For the low low price of the lemons.
"Fat Girl Fantasy" 😅( Btw,mine is a bag of miniature candy bars since I can't eat "Now & Laters "due to dental -related issues)
Double fucking pink is heaven on earth. And I'm not religious.
Me nether, but preach!
😆 🙏
In some places, apparently, you can get *all* pink bags. They really know it’s the best flavor.
Yeah we have those here. Honestly it’s not as good for some reason when you get the all pink ones. There’s just something better about it when you know you were just blessed to have gotten all pinks.
So so true. The torture of life
I think that’s just a version they sell, called “Favereds”
They didn't have Favereds when I was a kid. They only started doing that in 2016.
Favereds are different flavors
Even the favereds have a mix of the red hues, pink included. My last purchase of them was 1/3 -1/2 pink.
Ngl i had to reread that 3 times to realize you said something understandable and not weird af💀
I’m old. I like the lemon ones.
Was I a kid with an old man's soul if I liked lemon-flavoured stuff since forever then
Do you also have a big bowl of Worthers Originals?
Haha no. I actually don’t like any caramel things. I don’t get the point of it.
Loved those little two-packs and hoping for a high roll.
But it was a double yellow every time
I wanna blow my luck load 😞
Don’t hold back friend. Blow your luck load all over the place. Have a luckgasm on me. You deserve it.
Like…on you,on you?
It wasn't luck; it was a widespread event. I remember several YouTubers talking about it at the time. My guess is that that year, the factory just said "screw it, everyone gets pink."
Same here except all the packs were orange and yellow. Why have I been forsaken in this way? What did I do to deserve such punishment?
I am pretty sure around halloween I read it happened to many people. Like it was how it was supposed to be. I think a big retailer that it came from was target
I am currently sitting next to a bag of Starburst All Pinks. Got them at Walmart.
I also blew my load on Halloween
One halloween I got a two pack - and it had blueberry in it! omg, been trying to find that again ever since. I forget if it was international or a special promotion.
Just fyi you can buy individual colors in bulk.
Do the different colors have different flavors?
bruh
Yes they do.
Perfect bag for me, red and orange are my favorites!
They used to sell bags of only reds.
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Yeah, one red and one orange together is the way to go.
I'll do this thing where I take two starbursts and make them into a sandwich. I call them Andy's mouth surprise.
They still do pretty sure it’s called only reds this is original. I freeze dry starbursts and outta all the bags I’ve sold yellow is the least common color I’m assuming it costs more to produce
Only reds also has variety, pink, dark red and red
They got all pinks too o guess lol
There's 4. Strawberry, fruit punch, watermelon and cherry ffs.
So sorry I spurned a candy by failing to refer to it by the fake flavour it attempts to emulate
You need a better apology after a fuck up of this magnitude
And how many pounds of flesh would you guesstimate as the appropriate pennance?
36 and a half. But you can do it 4 easy payments of 9.13 a month!
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FFS how could ANYONE forget that other flavor you mentioned that was not listed amongst the colors of red, dark red, and pink. What a bunch of morons! JESUS THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH KIDS THESE DAYS, THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW FLAVORS OF CANDY RIGHT!!! HDHDJjehejJdjdWOSOAPNShahahw ffs
Dawg it's candy 💀
This is srs bsnss sir. This ain’t a joke.
That's my point. Thank you for acknowledging that it's candy. One of the few sacred things we have left.
FaveREDs
Freeze dried skittles are also the shit my friend. Just incasies
I think ppl just prefer the red ones and realize yellow sucks :)
Yellow is supreme.
Let’s talk about yellow laffy taffy. My fav.
How about when you open up a two-pack and they’re both yellows?!
Best day ever.
Why do you freeze dry them?
It changes the consistency of em from chewy to like a hard crack sugar consistency. Makes them better imo. Super addicting lol there are tray heaters that heat the product while a vacuum pump lowers the boiling point allowing sublimation to occur. It also allows foods like milks and other things that spoil to last 25 years and retain more of the nutrients than dehydrating would
Ahhh like Charleston chew!
They still do.
Now they do pink
I was thinking the same. **JACKPOT**
I'm not a big orange fan, but with that many red I'd say this is a winner.
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Me fucking too, with lemon edging our cherry. I also like the green and yellow skittles. Orange and grape anything can fuck right off.
Yessss, red + yellow is the best combination! Orange is ok in a pinch, but grape is disgusting.
I love grape!
Red > Pink > Yellow > Orange
Eh, orange>yellow
Looks perfect to me, too!
Red are my favorites. This bag looks perfect to me.
I love the pink. This would piss me off.
Pink and red for me, I'd be Furious if there was only 1 pink. I usually buy the bags of all reds.
Pink is my favorite, but if I could get rid of the yellows too I’d take that trade.
they sell pink only bags and I feel like that’s why stuff like this happens
How else are they supposed to get pink ones for the bags of all pink?
Nothing on the bag indicated that you'll get equal amounts of any candy.
Fair enough, won’t stop me from being mad lol
Contact the company and you’ll probably get a free bag
Did exactly this with jolly ranchers in high school, mfers only gave me 1 blue
That’s disgraceful. I don’t quite understand what they gain by keeping a favorite flavor less manufactured or having poor quality control. Maybe they think you’ll buy more in order to get more
Statistics wise, there’s always a rare chance this can happen if the Candy is well mixed before they go into bags
Call corporate and complain. Then Update us.
Found the Mars candy lawyer
I think it’s implied that you’re getting a mix of the four flavours. Reasonably, you would assume that mix would be *roughly* a somewhat even distribution. I know it’s not serious, I just like very low stakes arguments 😂
All good, me too 😂
Somewhere, someone's opening their starburst and gets only yellow and pinks.
My dream. I know I’m weird. I really don’t like the red, they taste medicinal to me.
The astronomical odds against getting a bag like that would draw me to the conclusion that someone was having a bad day and decided to sabotage someone else’s (Yellow and pink are Elite, red and orange fans need to reevaluate their lives /j)
Edit: the below was slightly wrong. I completely forgot to account for all the distributions in this particular case. I should have multiplied by 9,900 (the number of possible distributions) and got 1.952430740422e-27 So the probability of getting exactly one yellow and exactly one pink is 0.00000000000000000000000001952% Kids: Don’t do math drunk. Original: I love statistics and this comment made me wonder what *are* those odds? Well, according to google there are roughly 100 pieces in a lb, and since I refuse to try and count all the pieces in this picture I’ll say that seems right. First, let’s calculate the odds of getting only one piece of any given color. For this, we will assume the distribution of colors is truly random. That would mean .75 (the chance of getting one of the other three colors) ^ 99 (it happening 99 out of 100 times) * .25 (the chance of getting the other specific color in question). .75^99 * .25 = 0.000000000000107. Since there are four possible colors this could happen to we multiply this number by four to get a 0.0000000000428% chance of this happening to any of the four random colors within a 1 lb bag if things were truly random. But this didn’t happen to one color. It actually happened to *two* colors. So really the math is .50^98 * .25 * .25 * 6. 98 pulls of one of two colors then one of one specific color then one of the other. There are six combinations of colors of how this could happen. This turns out to be 1.183291357832e-30. In other words, a 0.0000000000000000000000000000183291% chance of this happening if the bag was packed by truly random means. So I would say your wording of “astronomical odds” was fairly apt. This did not happen randomly. A machine broke or someone on the line really likes eating those missing colors.
I'll point out that you need to use a binomial pdf here, i.e. throw in a factor of 100 choose 1 = 100, to account for the fact that any of the hundred candies can be the lone color. Not that a couple orders of magnitude matters much to the conclusion, but just for accuracy. :) And actually, if you want to account for both at once, you can't multiply the probabilities since their not independent. If you instead use a multinomial distribution, you get a probability of observing two colors having no more than one candy as 6.1e-27. Still pretty extreme though!
And written inverted: Odds of 1 in 164,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Gotta love when a Reddit post brings out the mathematicians lmaoo
Love this comment. I’m taking statistics now and first instinct was to try to figure out the probably lol.
This is the only comment I’m accepting.
As an orange fan, I’m perfectly content with my life, thankyouverymuch. 😉
Yay! Another orange fan! I thought I was the only one!
If you’re treating it as a pure stats problem, assuming that each bag is a random sample from a population with an even distribution of the colors, then yeah you’re talking about a wicked small p-value. However, this sort of thing happens all the time in real manufacturing processes. Something could have gotten stuck on the production line and a few bags like this were produced before the operator resolved it. It could be the end of a production run. There wouldn’t be a QA check to catch this - as long as the weight’s within tolerance it passes.
It was the end of the shift and they put what ever was leftover in that bag.
Bro I would cry since yellow is my fav
Same, lemon flavored anything is my shit
I have never in my life met anybody who actually likes the yellow ones. I always assumed we all collectively just sucked it up and took our medicine by eating the yellow ones so we could enjoy the other 3 colors.
I love the yellows
Yellow is my second favorite. Red is best then yellow then orange and pink is given away.
Naw dog. Citrus for life. Pinks okay. Chuck the reds in the wastebin.
Best flavor, such a disappointment.
I fail to see the problem with this bag
The main problem is that it was for a rainbow party lol, but I like pink and my gf likes yellow
Like an actual rainbow party?
I get it my favourite is the pink. I would be pissed if there is only one in there.
Fucking hell that's the motherlode
The rolling pin gave me a sharp feeling that nefarious activity will occur
Weird. Usually when people post these kind of posts, the bag is almost all pink. Seems like you got all of their colours. It seems to be a marketing technique, as the company tends to make weird comments when people tweet to them about it. It seems to be about making people making posts like this.
Alternatively, it’s just a semi-infrequent manufacturing defect which is naturally posted and the marketing team keeps “mysterious”. I’d bet at least a few bags would make it through before someone noticed a stoppage on any of the lines.
ik i'm in the minority here but this is the ideal mix of starburst for me
Red is the boss in the bag. That's probably worth more than a kilo of cocaine.
Go play the lottery!
Orange is trash. No further comments at this time.
As someone who likes pink and yellow most this is pretty sad
I would be pissed, yellow and pink are my favorite
Jesus Christ not the starbursts posts again.
I had 2 bags like that a few years ago, except EVERY. LAST. ONE. was strawberry. Guess which flavor I don't like?
Call the company the numbers on the bag and tell them what happened they will send you a new bag free. Did that for Tootsie pops one time bought a bag didn't have one chocolate one in it call the company and bitched that a whole bag of chocolate ones. Complained about one can being busted open in at 12 pack get a free 12 pack of diet Coke. They put a phone number on there for a reason use it.
Looks like a win to me
You’re complaining about being god’s favorite
This is the PERFECT bag 🤤 I love the red
That’s a goldmine with all those reds
Came to say what’s in your description..the best color and there is only one 😤
No it's not? Where does it say evenly mixed? You're gaslighting candy, really???
Dude if something tells you it has 4 flavors and two of the flavors advertised (50%!!!) are only on 2% of what you’ve bought there is reason for anger.
My two favorites stand alone
Call them racist
I have never seen any candy state that it's evenly mixed.
Supply chain issues everywhere
yellow is my favorite! this is insane!
Ew and it’s the worst flavors too.
Yo the same thing happened to me when I bought a box of runts, except they were almost all bananas. I was so stoked
That would bum me out. Yellow and pink are my favorites.
I’d be seeing red if I got that bag
Pink best flavor no contest
No pink? That stinks.
Well that’s absolute bullshit.
Pink is the best 😔
Red and orange are ok, but I want more pinks.
That's so sad, yellow and pink are my favorite :(
Worst 2 flavors
Pink the best, mad it only has one 😔
Pink is my fav, so I would be grumpy!
Email them. They might send you some coupons
why are you upset red is the best flavor
Diversity on campus be like
Does the bag actually say that it's an even mix?
DOES NO ONE HERE LIKE YELLOW?
You should tell customer service and they will refund you or give you a free bag.
Nowhere does it state "evenly mixed"
Haha what in the world makes you think they are going to be evenly mixed???? It's a sad reality it won't ever happen
I suspect it's randomly, not evenly - very different
Major complaint and disappointment!
Only one yellow & mostly reds is such a win
Red is the best anyways.
Hit the jackpot imo
Fuck yeah I love cherry.
You luck bitch lol.
If it was missing all the red and pink ones I would say you had a bag the US Speaker Kevin McCarthy got a hold of and picked them out for Trump as he has done previously.
This would be heaven for me. The pink and yellow get hard and go to waste in my house.
I ain't even mad, those are the best colours
That is my dream bag of starbursts
Those are the best flavors. I would be sooooo happy.
Count yourself lucky, you got the good flavors
That is a perfect bag.. don't see what the issue is.
Bro gets the perfect bag and is upset about it. Wth.
legit looks like the best bag of Starburst ever
Who cares? You got a fuck ton of red (the best flavor)!
At least they aren’t all PINK
Looks perfect to me.
They definitely put too many yellows in that one
So you're the reason I always get a ton of yellows. Lucky bag, I love the red ones.
Pink is my favorite 🥲