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.
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?