Just when I think we’ve scrapped the bottom of human stupidity…
Well the title isn’t exactly accurate. It references a 2021 study to get the title but Pepsi said nothing about it
The changes come as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes companies to ditch artificial ingredients.
This is likely the bigger factor.
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.
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.
Lines up with the mouth breathing Trump voter stats.
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?
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.
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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.
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…
Freedom.
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
TIL I thought they were like beans hanging in the air.
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?
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!
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?
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.
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.
It’s also very easy to find absolutely disgusting boiled peanuts
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.
In Baden, I sometimes even hear them called Grumbeere
Oh, that I never heard. But I always lived in the North.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
That seems very inefficient. Couldn’t we skip the middle man (cow) and just put the chocolate directly into the milk?
That’s just crazy talk!
That doesn’t make any sense!
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.
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.
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
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.
