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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.
No way, I don't believe it. They are absolutely at least 60% cardboard.
They, you mean the consumers, right?
you do need those fibers. and meat is made from gym mats and couch stuffing.
and 20 percent air
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.
I also have my issues with the cited "study."
I'm not saying Americans aren't dumb, but I take this kind of data with a sack of salt. How was the study phrased? What does the company stand to gain by expressing the results of the study in this way? Why not tell us exactly how the study was performed and what questions were on it?
There's a big difference between "Hey, what are Lay's chips made of?" and "Do you know what exact ingredients are in your bag of chips?"
My gut tells me this is all fairly performative framing so they can just cozy up to a political administration for favor and head-pets while also trying a new marketing campaign that should be universally acceptable to consumers, one that reframes their products as "healthy" in some way.
Whoopee. Pepsi gets keeled by a fucking political scion with worms for brains.
All I know is that I'm not paying $5 a bag for their stale chips.
Must be a US thing, in the UK they are easily one of if not the most popular brand of crisps (chips) they are called walkers here but the logo is the same. We have stricter regulations on what is classed as food in this country though.
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.
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.
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Lines up with the mouth breathing Trump voter stats.
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.
It's due to people still buying them after every price increase.
So like with EVERYTHING else that is crazy expensive. Basic supply and demand... Yet people are baffled
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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.
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42% also think Trump is something other than a grifting piece of shit.
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.
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TIL I thought they were like beans hanging in the air.
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.
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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?
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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
How can people be that dumb. It is literally in the name: Potato Chips.
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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.
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