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"shiba-potato"
haha oh wow

c..cannibalism?!

"Seems like there's a global potato shortage, doesn't it?"

Not really, just that you have protectionist laws impeding economical importation from over seas sources to replace a partly failed local crop, also spiced with some of the usual xenophobia/exceptionalism with some vague mumbling from the companies about the supposed lack of 'quality' of import options, as if a mass produced chip smothered in artificial cheese and tomato flavoring somehow demands only the finest of potatoes for it's production...

Excellent. I knew my investment in Japanese snack foods would pay off some day. They all laughed, fools!

Tk3997 said:

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Interesting. I didn't know Japan doesn't import potatoes. Although I can understand the attractiveness of a somewhat vertical monopoly, I guess it didn't work out in this case. Do Japanese have imported snack brands too, or is it rare?

79248cm/s said:

Excellent. I knew my investment in Japanese snack foods would pay off some day. They all laughed, fools!

Interesting. I didn't know Japan doesn't import potatoes. Although I can understand the attractiveness of a somewhat vertical monopoly, I guess it didn't work out in this case. Do Japanese have imported snack brands too, or is it rare?

They do have American snack brands sold pretty widely when I visited there two years ago, so they do import foreign snacks, at least the more popular and well-known, brand-name ones (Oreos, Kit-Kats, even Pringles).