Lay’s crisps is having a rebrand because ’42 per cent of Americans didn’t know their potato chips were made from potatoes’, and the facepalm is visible from space
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This finding might explain a whole lot about our current national nightmare?
— MoCo Underground Writers Showcase [Julia Tagliere] (@mocounderground.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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And you thought all the dumbest people in society were in government
— PUMPKIN SPICE SLUGGO (@saintsluggo.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I use to work for them, you would be shocked by the questions I would get as a sales rep.
I had a store manager that thought cheetos were made of puffed cheese not corn byproduct.— Andrew Johnson (@ratcalledaj.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Alternate headline: Americans are dumb as shit.
— waa2112 (@waa2112.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I just sat and blinked for a while.
— rudetuesday (@rudetuesday.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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From the "Americans Are Stupid" news-desk: Over 40% of Americans didn't know Lay's potato chips were made from potatoes. No, really.
fortune.com/2025/10/10/p…— Engineer Brains (@hhackenbecker.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p…
— jon rosenburger (@jonrosenberg.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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And with a final flickering and a barely audible hissing sound, the light of my hope for the intelligence of humanity is forever extinguished.
42% of people didn’t know. potato chips. are made. of. potatoes.
fortune.com/2025/10/10/p…
— John Moe (@johnmoe.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Perhaps there’s some logic to the 42%.
I mean, I assume anything that isn't fresh meat or veg is just eight corn fractionals in a trenchcoat. So maybe a reasonable part of that 42% figure are those who said "Wait, they still use actual potatoes? I assumed capitalism made 'em switch to floor sweepings by now"
— Bear Real Last Name Unknown (@bearstrap.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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