No way, I don’t believe it. They are absolutely at least 60% cardboard.
and 20 percent air
They, you mean the consumers, right?
you do need those fibers. and meat is made from gym mats and couch stuffing.
I thought they were literally made out of money these days, considering the prices last few years.
I don’t eat a ton of chips, but with the prices, I haven’t bought any name brand chips in over two years.
I would 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!
Utz is far superior in flavor and pricing. I buy a fair amount of snacks (I leave them by the front door with drinks for the delivery people), and I can buy a 60 ct. box of 1oz. chip bags for $15 or a 40 ct. of the same size from Lays for $25.
I get my funyon fix at the Asian market now. Dragonfly has been doing spices for centuries and their onion ring chips taste like the east india trading company would invade their factory.
I didn’t before but now I actually prefer ruffles.
But don’t eat much since I’m diabetic.
Those sun chips black beans and queso are awesome and If I eat the serving size not to bad with the fiber
Utz are okay and better than lays, but they are still pretty shitty chips
Boulder Chips are way better, actual high quality chips (not fried slices of air), and a party sized bag is like $4. Lays charges for the name and sells shitty chips. Utz charges for the chips but still sells shitty chips. Its hard to find a decent brand of quality chips, but there are some out there
Boulder Canyon is owned by Utz.
The only chips anyone needs is Good’s.
Good’s is alright if you can find a bag that hasn’t sat on the shelf for too long. I’d rank it the same as Snyder’s of Berlin or Mister Bee. A regional hit propped up by homers.
1 out of 8 people in the US have or are using a GLP drug.
the percentage of people who were eating a large amount of snack foods like this are fairly likely to be those 1:8 people who were prescribed a GLP drug… its more than just rising costs, these drugs are changing the way people relate to processed snack food in a profound way and the manufacturers arw well aware.
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.
I wonder, how many of those consumers are Americans 🤔
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.
Frito lay produces non potatoe chips but I don’t think any under the lays brand are corn etc.
I think the flat corn chips they produce are Doritos-branded, but I could be wrong.
Shmoo?
Given how many yanks can’t identify their own damned state on a map, and vote for republicans when they are guaranteeing that their lives will be made worse, I find this utterly unsurprising
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 <list of slower speeds>. Of course, so did all the competing modems…
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
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.
Doritos are nearly 100% corn.
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.
How can people be that dumb. It is literally in the name: Potato Chips.
Can they read ?
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.
Made in proximity of real potatoes.
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.
Ought to be in Not the Onion.
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
It’s the Flemish but the French make them
Flemish potato-frying art is at advanced levels as yet unreachable by the peak of French culinary technology. Not to mention the whacky things they add to the mayo you’re given to dip your frites in.
Flemish cuisine in general is not given the respect it deserves. Some of the best meals I’ve ever had were in Flanders. There’s more to it than waterzooi.
Freedom.
TBH, until just now I hadn’t given much thought to how peanuts are grown. 🤔
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.)
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!
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.
It’s also very easy to find absolutely disgusting boiled peanuts
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
(The ‘pea’ part is because they’re a legume; it could have just as easily ended up ‘bean-nut’, except that would over time become ‘beanut’, which would probably re-become peanut)
Peas were named after peanuts?
They’re legumes that grow underground and trigger nut allergies. They are the platypus of the plant world.
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.
How dare you question the scientific accuracy of Spongebob Squarepants!
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.
Why is it important to know these things? I’d rather people be ignorant of the biology of a peanut plant than ignorant of the many important things that people are ignorant of.
I consider it important that if I am consuming a produce regularly to know what exactly I’m eating, what it is made from and where does it come from. Because the stuff I’m eating becomes a part of me. And also because I am regularly spending money for that so I will inform myself about the details of a product.
It’s not about those peanuts, that’s part of understanding one’s own life and the contexts of life in which one is involved. And I think it is a problem that many people are consumers who are very alienated from these life contexts and no longer understand how they are actually connected to the world. That’s one reason why illusions can thrive.
Sure it’s great that this is an interest to you, but not everyone is going to care about minutia about food. At the end of the day we have to trust someone that’s done some research into whether a plant is safe to eat and whether it’s healthy, and in what quantities, etc. regardless of whether it’s a legume or a fruit or whatever. Which food is safe and healthy is important, other biological details are trivia.
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.
I think it’s still very common in Austria
In Baden, I sometimes even hear them called Grumbeere
Oh, that I never heard. But I always lived in the North.
and the potatoe isnt a vegatable, its a tuber, the real parts of the plants are berries, and leaves. which are poisonous.
The potato plant is a nightshade, closely related to the tomato. All nightshades contain poisonous alkaloids, including small amounts in tomato fruits and green potato skins.
The potato is still a vegetable though… Vegetable is a culinary term and can apply to any part of a plant, including roots and tubers.
Lines up with the mouth breathing Trump voter stats.
