Lay's Potato Chip Recall Clocks In At The FDA's Highest Risk Level

Chowhound / Yahoo! ^ | January 28, 2025 | Eloise Rollins-Fife

[jonrick46]

I like Lay’s Potato Chips with sour cream chip dip. Those allergic to the milk in the chips can’t even have dip with the good chips.

[bunkerhill7]

I always feed my cows potato chips for breakfast.

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-oh. We just did a whole dairy pun series...

[rellic]

I’d bet I’m the only commenter here that worked in a food factory.
I was a Electronics technician, one of the highest paid hourly people in the factory. I was a Retired Engineer and
only took the job to get my wife Medical insurance.
I had to run or shut down that factory with only two weeks training, my decisions were carried out, and I was responsible for those decisions.

Until you have worked in a food factory, you would not believe how through they are with cleaning!
I worked at the Mauna Loa Mac Nut factory when Hershey’s owned it. Those Filipinos were some motivated cleaning
animals.
I didn’t stay long as I wasn’t family( eg. not Filipino) and I didn’t go to Hilo high school, plus they didn’t want to deal with an aerospace engineer, ex-military that could do everything they asked (Ever repaired and hooked up a 17 kV power line to a factory?) I hadn’t either but I got it done. My HR outgoing interview, revealed. They did pay my un-employment insurance also.
Main thing is we got my wife medical insurance that I could convert and afford.

[gattaca]

All these recalls...what the heck is going on?

[Ezekiel]

I remember “Pringles” by Proctor & Gamble, being launched in the early 70’s. Some day I will share the history of that product packaging insanity. Think about it. Wet slurry, shaped, baked, dried, flavored, and then all oriented in the same stack pattern, dropped into a can off of on a paper can winding arbor, vacuum chambered, sealed from the bottom, and then stood upright, and pushed into a case packer, without breaking those chips!!! Later in life I was mentored by the wrench turning guys that figured the whole process out. It was like being part of a NASA moon launch project. And if you know P&G, it was top secret non disclosure kind of a project. All notebooks, records, sketches, notes, had to be turned in at the end of the day, then would be re-issued after you came in the next day.

"All this for a potato chip." ~ Mooshell

(BTW, great story. Thanks for sharing!)

[Vaduz]

Lay’s can not be held responsible remember their ad.

Bet you can’t eat just one

[SunkenCiv]

Mmmmm...

https://www.pringles.com/en-us/products/pringles-harvest-blends-smokey-bbq.html

[Ezekiel]

INGREDIENTS: DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER), DRIED POTATOES, SWEET POTATO, MALTODEXTRIN, RICE FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, SUGAR, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF RICE STARCH, SALT, RED BELL PEPPERS, TOMATO POWDER, PAPRIKA COLOR, DRIED YEAST, BROWN SUGAR (SUGAR, MOLASSES), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, FRUCTOSE, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, SPICES, GARLIC POWDER, MOLASSES, PAPRIKA EXTRACT COLOR, WHEY, WHEAT STARCH, CARAMEL COLOR.

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That could have been much scarier, so I was surprised.

I figured by now the tubes would have needed to be larger in order to accommodate the ingredients list.

The MSG is the reason people will eat an entire can.

Umami — the Asian codeword for “devil”. 😋