The article seems much closer to a PepsiCo marketing piece than proper journalism.
Probably because it’s based on this marketing piece: https://www.pepsico.com/our-stories/story/from-potato-to-chip-the-next-chapter-of-lays
How can people be that dumb. It is literally in the name: Potato Chips.
My guess is that when you see a stamp that says “Made with real potatoes” you just assume that they were waved at a potato at some point during manufacturing. :)
Every employee is legally obligated to have a potato in his pocket at all times.
I just always assume they’re lying to me because they’re allowed to. That’s what happens when regulations go out the window, trust does too.
I just don’t understand how it is that chips and things like Doritos can possibly cost so much. It must be due to more and more consolidation and price-fixing.
It’s due to people still buying them after every price increase.
Lines up with the mouth breathing Trump voter stats.
This is off the top of my head so correct me if I’m wrong but this is basically what veggie straws got sued over in reverse.
Like yeah, potatoes are vegetables. You thought because some where green and orange that we were using shit like carrots and celery? Lmao, no. Read the ingredients homie. That’s red dye and green dye on weird shaped potatoes chips 🤠
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I would imagine some people could be uncertain about potato chips being sliced potatoes, rather than some sort of potato-based product.
Ah, like Pringles.
Yeah the chips I ate most recently were Doritos. Hard to believe there is any remnant of vegetable in there at all, even though corn is the first ingredient listed.
Doritos are nearly 100% corn.
All I know is that I’m not paying $5 a bag for their stale chips.
Pepsico basically said on an investor call they will keep jacking up the price so long as people keep buying .
So here we are I guess.
Must be a US thing, in the UK they are easily one of if not the most popular brand of crisps (chips) they are called walkers here but the logo is the same. We have stricter regulations on what is classed as food in this country though.
Is it just me or does it not literally say “potato chips” right on the bag? Been a long while since I had any Lay’s brand chips.
E: yes it does, on the bigger bags it’s on the front. Not sure about the smaller bags.
Wait, which study was this? The page says it was from 2021. What was the question? What was the context? Who were polled and how? I am dubious.
I mean, unless the question was, “What are Lays potato chips made of,” which answers itself so it wouldn’t be used. But if the question was “What are Lays chips made of,” I could see how someone might not answer potatoes. And who even asks that question in poll anyway? I feel like there’s a universe of context collapse here.
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To be fair, Lay’s garbage chips don’t have the flavor or texture of chips made from actual potatoes. They seem to be reconstituted from a paste that at one point contained potatoes.
No way, I don’t believe it. They are absolutely at least 60% cardboard.
They, you mean the consumers, right?
and 20 percent air
Friendly reminder for canucks that Miss Vickie’s is Lays.
Ought to be in Not the Onion.
