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Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
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Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Potatoe chips are as cheap as never before in Germany because there is an excess of potatoes on the market because of the embargo against Russia.
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Cue Scrumplestiltskin prophesying the impending global potato blight, which will bring about the end of humankind.NineBerry wrote:Potatoe chips are as cheap as never before in Germany because there is an excess of potatoes on the market because of the embargo against Russia.
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
How the fuck can Russia not be self-sufficient in potatoes?
I suppose it's the weather. Doesn't Russia have any bits that are south enough to grow early spuds?
Or maybe, they use all of theirs up making illicit vodka.
I'm sure that the Russians will be packing up and leaving Crimea. Can't do without their spuds.
I suppose it's the weather. Doesn't Russia have any bits that are south enough to grow early spuds?
Or maybe, they use all of theirs up making illicit vodka.
I'm sure that the Russians will be packing up and leaving Crimea. Can't do without their spuds.
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Oh shit, the potatoserfs of Ireland are going to become billionaires and rule over us with an iron fist. 
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
I actually found out that my information was wrong. Cheap price of potatoe chips in Germany has nothing to do with Russia but its a price war started by Aldi and Lidl to steal customers from the other supermarket chains.
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Are we talking about crisps?
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You say potato chip and I say crisps.
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Sorry, this is the only case where the Americans got it right. It's chips!
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Chips were chips, long before crisps.
We had fish and chip shops in the middle of the 19th century. American "chips" in bags started in the early 20th. Before that they were called shavings and served with meals.
It's like football. And hockey. The yanks can never get it right.
And the French call them sheep !!
We had fish and chip shops in the middle of the 19th century. American "chips" in bags started in the early 20th. Before that they were called shavings and served with meals.
It's like football. And hockey. The yanks can never get it right.
And the French call them sheep !!
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-31/w ... lt/8401726
West Australian potato disease threat stunts trade as growers warned spread 'almost inevitable'
More than 5,000 tonnes of Western Australian seed potato could be dumped due to trade restrictions put in place to deal with the tomato potato psyllid (TPP) outbreak.
The Department of Agriculture and Food of WA (DAFWA) is currently assessing whether the bacterium candidatus liberibacter solanacearum is present in the state, which has the potential to cause the damaging zebra chip disease in potatoes.
The psyllid was detected in the state last month, which was the first time it had ever been discovered in Australia.
DAFWA introduced new quarantine measures to help contain an outbreak of the psyllid last week as a national plan was released to help monitor and contain the movement of vegetables and seedlings.
The executive director of biosecurity and regulation for the department Kevin Chennell said the disease was going to prove difficult to eradicate.
"There's national consensus that it's going to be very difficult," he said.
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West Australian potato disease threat stunts trade as growers warned spread 'almost inevitable'
More than 5,000 tonnes of Western Australian seed potato could be dumped due to trade restrictions put in place to deal with the tomato potato psyllid (TPP) outbreak.
The Department of Agriculture and Food of WA (DAFWA) is currently assessing whether the bacterium candidatus liberibacter solanacearum is present in the state, which has the potential to cause the damaging zebra chip disease in potatoes.
The psyllid was detected in the state last month, which was the first time it had ever been discovered in Australia.
DAFWA introduced new quarantine measures to help contain an outbreak of the psyllid last week as a national plan was released to help monitor and contain the movement of vegetables and seedlings.
The executive director of biosecurity and regulation for the department Kevin Chennell said the disease was going to prove difficult to eradicate.
"There's national consensus that it's going to be very difficult," he said.
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Sacrilege!NineBerry wrote:Sorry, this is the only case where the Americans got it right. It's chips!
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Most of the English speaking world says "chips" for potato chips - the US, Canada, Oz, etc.mistermack wrote:Chips were chips, long before crisps.
We had fish and chip shops in the middle of the 19th century. American "chips" in bags started in the early 20th. Before that they were called shavings and served with meals.
It's like football. And hockey. The yanks can never get it right.
And the French call them sheep !!
Potato crisps (the British version of U.S. potato chips) is from 1929. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?ter ... in_frame=0 Potato chip (n.) attested from 1879 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?ter ... in_frame=0
The word soccer was coined in England. - http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=soccer soccer (n.) 1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.). And, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explo ... ord-soccer
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Re: Japanese Potato Chip Famine.
Doesn't make it right. Most of the world says gay, when they know that the right word is homosexual.Forty Two wrote: Most of the English speaking world says "chips" for potato chips - the US, Canada, Oz, etc.
Britain said crisps because we already knew the proper meaning of chips.
And soccer was slang to a few posh schoolboys, the country always said football of course. And it was only posh schoolboys that ever said rugger.
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