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da fuq did people think they are?! 🤨
Guessing the question wasn't clear, since Lays is both the name of the original product (potato chips) and the brand (which without looking it up I would guess includes other types of chips such as corn). But results from a well-formulated survey would have less clickbait value, so the shock results get reported.
Shmoo?
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.
Reminds me about the fact that a roughly equal proportion of the population does not know that peanuts, just like potatoes, grow underground.
TIL I thought they were like beans hanging in the air.
Ok. But I would say not knowing potato chips are made of potato is slightly worse.
I wonder what people guess what french fries are made from...
Not even French people. They just would have no idea, regardless of the seemingly obvious context clues
That's a little more understandable. Peas grow on vines, so you'd expect peanuts to be somehow similar to peas. I guess they get their name because they're in pods like peas but without being told, how would someone guess they grow underground?
And cashews do grow on trees (they're technically a fruit) and are similar to peanuts. Would anyone guess that cashews are fruits?
I guess they get their name because they're in pods like peas but without being told
Presumably the opposite; they get their name because they're in shells like nuts
I don't know why I remember this, but there was also a Spongebob episode that showed a potted peanut plant with peanuts growing on it like peas do.
Yes, okay, guessing the origin from the name can be somewhat misleading. But the striking thing for me is that people do not know and do not bother to ask themselves where a product that they consume every day or every week comes from. That's ignorance.
They’re also called ground nuts for this reason! Boil a potato and nobody bats an eye.. Boil a peanut and everyone loses their mind.
Hot boiled peanuts are a delicacy served at gas stations all over the southern US! (Also they are legumes, like peas, not nuts.)
Delicacy is putting a horrible misnomer on those things. They aren't bad, but fuck do they spill easily when your partner decides to take a sharp turn out of the gas station lot.
Yes yes! I grew up on road trips north and back and we used to just stop whenever we saw them. Had a favorite stop we didn’t know the name of we called ‘boiled peanuts guy’ and his were the best!
TBH, until just now I hadn't given much thought to how peanuts are grown. 🤔
I just had raw peanuts for the first time this week and the taste was intriguing. It really brings home how they are "legumes" when they taste more like peas than peanut butter.
In German language they are called ‘Erdnüsse’ (Ground Nuts), so it is more obvious where they grow.
But since the climate doesn't (yet) allow to grow them here, maybe many people don't know much about their origins either.
That's fun, reminds me of how French calls potatoes "apples of the earth" (pommes de terre.)
And the tomato, in Italian, is called "pomodoro", literally "golden apple".
In German, potatoes are also called ‘Erdäpfel’ although that is considered as outdated and somewhat funny.
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.
How can people be that dumb. It is literally in the name: Potato Chips.
Can they read ?
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.
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 would be more inclined to blame stupid consumers on this one.
The rebrand isn't because of stupidity it's because money. Like always.
Big picture: Lay’s generates about 60% of PepsiCo’s annual sales but has seen sales slip every quarter for the last three years. Consumers in every income bracket have been ditching classic snack brands amid rising prices.
So it's not that the consumer is stupid, it's that marketing is desperate to find another way to explain that no one can afford $8 for a bag of shitty chips?
$1 per chip and a bag of starchy air!
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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
This has to be an actual joke right?
This reminds me of ppl when they think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
This reminds me of ppl when they think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Yeah that's just crazy.
Everyone knows chocolate milk comes from any cows that are fed large amounts of chocolate.
Corn chips are obviously not made of slices of corn. I would imagine some people could be uncertain about potato chips being sliced potatoes, rather than some sort of potato-based product. Or just not particularly concerned about what any specific chip variety is made from.
Also, who the fuck would know what a potato crate looks like? Did potatoes ever come in crates? They’ve come in plastic bags my entire life, and I’m only vaguely aware they came in burlap sacks prior to plastic being invented.
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.
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.
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