Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 29, 2018

them chips must be really labor intensive to make them cost that much

And no part of Northern Ireland extends south of Ireland. Not even half way to the south of Ireland.

He doesn’t let his beard grow out, but I bet there is one there.

Wait just a minute….

Most supermarket potatoes around here are about a dollar a pound. Potato chips certainly aren’t $200 a pound!

Potato chips in a 5 or 6 oz bag cost around $2.50….

that’s roughly three bags to a pound, so about $7.50 a pound. Seven and a half times the price of potatoes…. not two hundred!

In fact, fancy organic fingerling potatoes might even cost $4 a pound…. that’s more per pound than, say, Dollar Tree or Big Lots chips at $1 a bag.

Even a ton of ordinary, commercial-grade raw potatoes is about $200… or 10 cents a pound… and very few of the most upscale potato chips are even close to 200 times that…. $20 a pound.

Is there a decimal error someplace?

Am I up too late, and figuring wrong?

Or should I just NOT Believe It?

Robert Ripley regaled the world with strange and unusual FACTS. This strip is an abomination of the man’s legacy.

A bit of an exaggeration about the tater chips. Well, it is Believe it or NOT. ;)

…so he does have a “Beard”! Actually..he is a Beard!

I wonder if the intent of the potato factoid meant to include “that they are made from” at the end. The consumer pays 200 times more than it cost the chip manufacturer to purchase those spuds…

The potato chip maker pays 10 cents a pound.

A 2 3/4 ounce bag of chips sells for $1.59 here.

Beard has a beard, he just keeps it trimmed really, really close every day. It’s a microbeard.

The average cost of potato chip’s (by the once) is about 4 times the average cost potato’s. Check it out the next time you go shopping.

re: potatoes. This is any marketable commodity. I used to work for a cotton farmer. A bale of his cotton averaged about 300 dollars back then, but could make 600 pair of blue jeans, at 25 dollars each (this was a while back…)

And Virginia is further west than West Virginia.

North Carolina extends as far south as South Carolina. Reno Nevada is farther west than Los Angelis California.