Lay's Chip Tracker Helps You Find The Source Of Your Salty Snacks
Do you lie awake at night, wondering where the potatoes in the bag of Lay's chips you downed while watching "Dancing With the Stars" were grown? No, neither do most sane people. However, our alert colleagues over at ShopSmart magazine have discovered the Lay's Chip Tracker, which can tell you the potato source based on the bag's production code. No, seriously.
This tidbit appeared in a blog post about finding locally-grown produce, which is significantly better for you than potato chips. Generally.
Chip Tracker [Frito-Lay]
Where to find local produce [ShopSmart]
(Photo: geognerd)
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I'd rather not know where my chips came from.
Bummer, doesn't work for Canadian chips, although the code seems the same.
Is it just me or does the picture of the BBQ one look like a cigarette?
This is a good thing. When there's a food recall (and lets face it, there WILL eventually be one) they'll be able to remove only the affected products and not all of them from the shelves. Now if we had a similar system for peanut butter products we would have had a much less interesting spring and fewer dead people on our hands.
Just as long as it doesn't tell me where those chips *go*...
@Paladin_11: My thought exactly. I wish all packaged foods had origin codes like this. For all their ingredients.
Will that Chip Tracker help me find "The Works" flavor chips? If not, it's useless.