They will not import any....
Irish potato famine redux.
:-D
Reminds me of the 1974 toilet paper crisis.
I remember when McDonalds had to fly french fries in.
I remember a similar rice crisis in Japan that had them importing rice from the US. When Japanese consumers began to like if not prefer the taste of US rice, the government made companies intermix the US rice with domestic rice. Japanese agriculture policies that heavily subsidize their farmers and strict import restrictions of agricultural products mean ridiculous food prices for Japanese consumers and loss of a large market for US ag products
Science Frontiers ^ | 1989 | Dr C Loring Brace
Posted on 01/17/2004 2:50:55 PM PST by blam
THE SAMURAI AND THE AINU
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
I’d just make my own and ain’t nothing like fresh hot tater chips.
Walmart sells a 15.25 oz bag of Lays Classic potato chips for $3.48. That’s 22.8 cents per oz.
I just bought a 10 lb. bag of russet potatoes for $2.98. That’s 1.8 cents per oz.
Uh, hello! I thought the Japanese were smart. Duh, make homemade chips.
Odd that the nutritional label on the bag of russets states a serving is 5.3 oz. but the Lays “can’t eat just one” chip bag says a serving is 1 oz. Can you say manipulation? Sort of like a serving of cereal is 1/4 C.
Hmmm...I was in a store yesterday and there were mountains of bags of various flavors of Calbee chips and the prices were the same as always .