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 haven’t bought store brand because I haven’t found good ones, but I’ve bought Euro brands over lays or cheetos. Best price to quality ratio is actually local brands, they even beat out other European brands.
Friendly reminder for canucks that Miss Vickie’s is Lays.
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…
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.
No no, onion rings are from the onion. We’re talking potato chips here.
Damn it lol you had me for a second there.
I literally looked at the source when I read the headline, fully expecting it to be an onion article.
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?
Potato chips is like using the full name. A lot of the time it’s just “chips”
Even the maize chips?
Yes
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
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
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.
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!
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.
That is certainly interesting. I was talking about boulder canyon vs utz branded chips though. The utz branded chips are not all that fantastic
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.
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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.
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.
That seems very inefficient. Couldn’t we skip the middle man (cow) and just put the chocolate directly into the milk?
That doesn’t make any sense!
That’s just crazy talk!
They do make some products out of corn…
