My potato slop is made out of potatoes? Like the dirty rocks from the ground? Why didn’t they teach me this in school???
article: https://fortune.com/2025/10/10/pepsico-lays-rebrand-consumers-didnt-know-made-of-potatoes/
Telling marketing surveys I “do not know what a potato is” is finally bearing fruit.
finally bearing fruit.
coincidentally exactly what a potato is
You’re going to be shocked about this
You’re telling me my earth apples aren’t actually apples?
土豆 (lit. soil bean / earth bean) n. potato
thank you for coming to Mandarin corner
This is canonically why the Sino-Soviet split happened — the Chinese didn’t like that the Soviets had exceeded their
capacity
To be fair, it wouldn’t exactly be surprising if a US made potato chip did not contain even a single trace of potato lol
I mean look at pringles. It’s dried potato powder in there but they might aswell use starch from any other source and it wouldn’t really make a difference.
Pringles. Now with 100% Sawdust
Shit’s basically cyberpunk food as is. The ingredient list doesn’t even really bother to specify which oil they use cause I’m guessing “cheapest edible”
Tbh lays packs are pretty close to contain only air already
Guy gets stuck in space, uses Lays to hold out longer
A 2021 survey found that 42% of consumers didn’t know Lay’s were made out of the spuds.
Certainly the result of some blind taste test. Its also a very good chance this was a bogus study Lays did themselves.If you actually do a search on this, its clear that Pepsico is pushing this rebranding like they did with Dominos over a decade ago.
the change to Dominos around 2010? That may have had some focus group stuff behind it but their pizza before that was vile, one of the few success stories I can think of in the company facelift realm
Well Lays is the worst chip out there but I don’t think they are serious about reformulating. There isn’t much you can do to make the chip better.
I can enjoy a lays every once in a while, there’s some even worse potato chip makers, I can’t name them off the top of my head (they’ll kill me)
pringles is the worst chip
Cause you can’t have just one?
because they’re formed out of powder instead of sliced
Oh did Domino’s change? I remember having their pizza once when I was little back in like 1995 or some shit, thought it was absolutely disgusting (worse than the school cafeteria pizza), threw it out, and never ate from them again.
it got much better to the point of being acceptable franchise pizza, and the crust was slightly garlicy if I am remembering correctly. All things get worse so it’s possible they need another reboot by now.
It’s not good, but acceptable. Source: a friend insisted we order Dominos the other week
For the price point, especially with discounts you get if you order online, it is about as good as you can find. Is it good pizza? Nah, it’s adequate pizza, but I can get two loaded ass medium pizzas for $23 after tax and that feeds me for two days. I even enjoy eating it as far as survival slop goes.
What about eating :beanis: instead? 😮
Beans don’t cook themselves and hand themselves to me out of a window at 11PM in my good for nothing rural ass town after work.
“Potatoes? Like out of the dirt?”Asymmetric and covered in eyes? sounds pretty eldritch, I wouldn’t eat that
I love how we’re all just dumb as fuck now.
yelling at clouds rant but thirty years ago bar trivia used to have some hard science and history questions
now it’s just 100% pop culture slop
A bag of lays chips that was consistently available for under $2 in 2019 is now sold for $5, and is also like 20g lighter, I therefore I do not buy them anymore
which sucks cause i love chippies
I got an air fryer for christmas last year and in my opinion as a professional cook with 15 years experience, they live up to the hype and one of the main things ive used it for is amazing fries, wedges or chips. Potatoes are cheap af, you toss em in a bit of oil and spices and you’re off to the races. Takes like 13 minutes including cook time. For your chips to be real chippy you’ll want a mandolin or something like that. I use use a really sharp chef’s knife and cut thin, but i like a little bit of potato meat still on the inside so it’s borderline like a potato skin from a restaurant but crisper. Bag chips still hit different. Similarly ive figured out a pack of tortillas is cheaper than tortilla chips and I can just cut em up and air fry and then bag em. I am a major eater of dips, black beans, layered bean, hummus beans, baba ganouj and need nice things to have it with. I need my some kinda chip and my carrots and dip, often with a pile of olives and pickles.
I keep hearing good things about air fryers but I have put off buying one because I don’t want to be tempted to buy more tendies and other processed food, when I’m trying to cut back on such things.
Lay’s drastically reworks product after customers find 42% of chips missing from every bag
Fixed
Next you’ll be saying froot loops contain no fruit
legally barred from spelling “fruit” correctly
So it’s the exact same slop but now there’s gonna be a picture of a potato and a farmer on the bag to trick people into thinking that they’re healthy.
Wtf did they think it was made of? Isn’t potato chips written somewhere on the package?
I feel like they just… Don’t think, something very surprising to me has been learning that a lot of people just operate entirely off of vibes 24/7
a lot of people just operate entirely off of vibes 24/7
How does one function like this
looks at my bag of chips
Yeah, they usually do
I think they are used rather to doritos so they probably expect all other chips to be made of sawdust too.
I think a good percentage will just give the funny answer to any survey.
Silly Lays, they don’t realize they have entered the hyperreal. The simulacrum is true.
survey from 2021
only acting on it now because of RFK Jr.
:pain:
Gotta love how it takes a crank becoming head of HHS to get these companies to do anything
And even then, it’s not actually a thing!
It’s just appeasing a man who thinks that wifi comes from hell
I don’t eat that garbage and even I know what it’s made of. What the fuck is going on in America?
Decades of gutting the public school system because white people were mad they had to integrate the schools
To be fair I would be surprised to find out they were made out of a real plant instead of just sure chemicals also
It comes from the cool ranch vegetable so it’s organic.
