On 06/24/10 4:08 PM, sometime in the recent past Doug Freyburger posted this:
> Wilson wrote:
>> Nancy2 posted this:
>>
>>> I don't get your complaint - the subject of your post doesn't say
>>> "vegan" or "vegetarian" was promised by the package....did you even
>>> read the ingredients?
>>
>> One shouldn't suspect animal products in potato chips. Simple as it gets.
>
> You expect a food that's clearly fried in fat to automatically be fried
> in vegitarian or vegan fat? Given centuries long tradition of using
> pork fat, duck fat, butter fat and so on at the best fats for frying I
> find this a bizzare expectation.

Yes. Doug, I guess I have to wonder where you are from because this was
settled back in 1990 when McD's stopped using animal fat to fry their fries
and said they would be using only veg. oil from then on. Why would Lay's or
other food purveyors try this same gambit at this late date?

I'm in the US where we have some scant laws against deceptive advertising.

>
> Maybe if you stressed how cheap the chips were I'd think you expected
> them to be fried in inexpensive oil and therefore plant oil. As these
> are reconstituted potato that does suggest cheap.
>
> Okay, not all that bizzare an expectation after all. Not what I would
> have expected but not bizzare either. Time to go to the vending
> machines at the office and see if I can salute you with some of them.
> Cheers!



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