The article seems much closer to a PepsiCo marketing piece than proper journalism.
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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.
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I have 100% transitioned to store brand chips. Some are even better than the one they are ripping off, plus they don't cost 8 bucks a bag.
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 🤠
I don't think I've heard of a lawsuit over it, but the veggie snacks really are made of vegetable starch. Of course that doesn't make them healthy, but they're not just potato chips.
now I see why Americans need to specify when they're talking about "eye glasses", but don't Americans call them "potato chips" anyway?
Even the maize chips?
Yes
Potato chips is like using the full name. A lot of the time it's just "chips"
didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes
What in the actual fuck??
This has to be from the onion. Some reporter didn’t check their source.
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The changes come as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes companies to ditch artificial ingredients.
"Emphasize the potato part."
That reminds me of an ice cream ad.
kagis
I think this is it. If not, same timeframe and tone. February 1927:
https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMTYx/z/BHYAAOSwQDViMSNc/$_57.JPG?set_id=8800005007
A Pure Dairy Product
The ice cream you buy so conveniently today contains only pure dairy products and the same wholesome ingredients you would use yourself.
The more of it you give your boys and girls, the more real nourishment you are giving them, for ice cream is milk and cream, made into a delicious food that everyone likes. Milk's minerals, milk's carbohydrates and proteins, milk's vitamins so essential to life and healrh and growth
they are all in ice cream. Today ice cream is made in modern plants under official health regulations. The utmost cleanliness and purity is assured.
Look for this emblem! Through it, the Research Council of the Ice Cream Industry and its associate members assure you of pure and wholesome ice cream.
Ice Cream for Health
Friendly reminder for canucks that Miss Vickie's is Lays.
real potatoes
I imagine that this tactic implies that there is something else that they might be made from that's undesirable.
I remember a modem ad once from the 1990s for a modem -- probably 33.6kbps or so
that proudly stated, with an exclamation mark, that it also supported . Of course, so did all the competing modems...
I wonder, how many of those consumers are Americans 🤔
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.
You might be thinking of Pringles, which are definitely like that.
Pringles are so damn good though