One potato, two potato - 55 million, more (the America the 3rd world can not imagine

Dallas Morning News ^ | 07.30.05 | JANELLE STECKLEIN

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By With the July 4 holiday approaching, our thoughts naturally turned to barbecues, hot dogs and chips. Lots of chips.

Crunch these numbers:

The Irving plant employs 640 workers and is open almost 'round the clock. On average, 600,000 pounds of raw materials are processed per eight-hour shift. A shipment of 46,000 pounds of raw potatoes lasts only 2 ½ hours.

In the United States alone, 55 million Lay's potato chips are produced each hour. That's 13 million bags a day – about 3.4 billion bags a year. (And that doesn't even include the other well-known favorites, such as Doritos, Fritos, Cheetos and Tostitos.)

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to all the people that think food imports are going to ruin our way of life - put it in perspective of our way of life.

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In the United States alone, 55 million Lay's potato chips are produced each hour.

Somebody please forward this information to Bob Geldof.