Most supermarket potatoes around here are about a dollar a pound. Potato chips certainly aren’t $200 a pound!
Potato chips in a 5 or 6 oz bag cost around $2.50….
that’s roughly three bags to a pound, so about $7.50 a pound. Seven and a half times the price of potatoes…. not two hundred!
In fact, fancy organic fingerling potatoes might even cost $4 a pound…. that’s more per pound than, say, Dollar Tree or Big Lots chips at $1 a bag.
Even a ton of ordinary, commercial-grade raw potatoes is about $200… or 10 cents a pound… and very few of the most upscale potato chips are even close to 200 times that…. $20 a pound.
I wonder if the intent of the potato factoid meant to include “that they are made from” at the end. The consumer pays 200 times more than it cost the chip manufacturer to purchase those spuds…
re: potatoes. This is any marketable commodity. I used to work for a cotton farmer. A bale of his cotton averaged about 300 dollars back then, but could make 600 pair of blue jeans, at 25 dollars each (this was a while back…)
Templo S.U.D. over 6 years ago
them chips must be really labor intensive to make them cost that much
pearlsbs over 6 years ago
And no part of Northern Ireland extends south of Ireland. Not even half way to the south of Ireland.
pearlsbs over 6 years ago
He doesn’t let his beard grow out, but I bet there is one there.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 6 years ago
Wait just a minute….
Most supermarket potatoes around here are about a dollar a pound. Potato chips certainly aren’t $200 a pound!
Potato chips in a 5 or 6 oz bag cost around $2.50….
that’s roughly three bags to a pound, so about $7.50 a pound. Seven and a half times the price of potatoes…. not two hundred!
In fact, fancy organic fingerling potatoes might even cost $4 a pound…. that’s more per pound than, say, Dollar Tree or Big Lots chips at $1 a bag.
Even a ton of ordinary, commercial-grade raw potatoes is about $200… or 10 cents a pound… and very few of the most upscale potato chips are even close to 200 times that…. $20 a pound.
Is there a decimal error someplace?
Am I up too late, and figuring wrong?
Or should I just NOT Believe It?
Shirl Summ Premium Member over 6 years ago
Robert Ripley regaled the world with strange and unusual FACTS. This strip is an abomination of the man’s legacy.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 6 years ago
A bit of an exaggeration about the tater chips. Well, it is Believe it or NOT. ;)
joefearsnothing over 6 years ago
…so he does have a “Beard”! Actually..he is a Beard!
aimlesscruzr over 6 years ago
I wonder if the intent of the potato factoid meant to include “that they are made from” at the end. The consumer pays 200 times more than it cost the chip manufacturer to purchase those spuds…
Radish the wordsmith over 6 years ago
The potato chip maker pays 10 cents a pound.
A 2 3/4 ounce bag of chips sells for $1.59 here.
Durak Premium Member over 6 years ago
Beard has a beard, he just keeps it trimmed really, really close every day. It’s a microbeard.
wjones over 6 years ago
The average cost of potato chip’s (by the once) is about 4 times the average cost potato’s. Check it out the next time you go shopping.
Max Starman Jones over 6 years ago
re: potatoes. This is any marketable commodity. I used to work for a cotton farmer. A bale of his cotton averaged about 300 dollars back then, but could make 600 pair of blue jeans, at 25 dollars each (this was a while back…)
Max Starman Jones over 6 years ago
And Virginia is further west than West Virginia.
JanBic Premium Member over 6 years ago
North Carolina extends as far south as South Carolina. Reno Nevada is farther west than Los Angelis California.