Lets talk about potatoes

[fmdog44]

Lays Potato Chips Facts:
They process 480,000,000 potatoes per year to make chips and some go to make other stuff like glue!
They peel 20,000 per hour
They have line inspectors grabbing bad ones as they fly by on a conveyor.
Once the potatoes are cooked they are inspected again this time individual bad chips are rejected by a single blast of air shooting the chip off the conveyor belt.
They create 100,000,000 bags per year.
One more item. When the 18 wheelers full of potatoes pull up the cab detaches from the trailer. The trailer front is then elevated to a point when all the potatoes simply roll out so it takes just a few minutes to unload.

 

[In The Sticks]

WOW!!!!

I gotta think there are farmers whose sole customer is Lays, and the type of potato and the quality of potato is tightly controlled (just like those who sell to McDonalds for their fries.)

And those stats you cite are just for one potato chip manufacturer!!!
It boggles the mind.

 

[gennie]

That's just disgusting...either gravy fries or cheese fries, much less both.

Adding all that fat to something that's already fried????

Why not save the time and just climb in the tub with your hair dryer plugged in?

And this bothers YOU why?

 

[In The Sticks]

And this bothers YOU why?

It's disgusting.