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Can someone explain why Potato Chips are so expensive? How would another winter freeze affect the price of beer

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Posted by greyhounds on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:55 PM

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You mean the can is worth more than the beer?

Nope.  That is not what the very knowledgeable ndbprr said.

He basically said the can cost more than the beer inside. But , "Cost More" is not the same as "Worth More".

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:57 PM

greyhounds

 

 
Murray
I like kettle chips......

 

With beer in an aluminum can?

 

 

 

 How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:02 AM

Murphy Siding
 
greyhounds

 

 
Murray
I like kettle chips......

 

With beer in an aluminum can?

 

 

 

 

 

 How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size.

 

 

It's simple: you dehydrate the chips (which makes them smaller), put them inito the can--and the beer rehydrates them! 

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:03 AM

Of course, etting the chips out is another matter--fish them out? But, I have no idea what to use as a lure.

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Posted by schlimm on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:20 AM

Question:  How is it that some folks turned into Forum thought police about the Santa Barbara thread having some OT posts about baroque music (and none of those folks actually had anything more to post about the SB accident), but seem to feel it is their right to have a string of utterly inane (also OT posts) on this thread?   I realize this thread's OP is a suspected serial troll, but the principle is the same.   So you all should take your "humor" to Murray's totally no-topic thread.

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:30 AM

Ahem!   Are not potato chips and beer sold in Amtrak (and VIA) cafe cars?

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:07 PM

Cornelius Vanderbilt may have invented potato chips. Probably not, but its something to read

 

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/real-story-potato-chip/ 

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:14 PM

schlimm

Question:  How is it that some folks turned into Forum thought police about the Santa Barbara thread having some OT posts about baroque music (and none of those folks actually had anything more to post about the SB accident), but seem to feel it is their right to have a string of utterly inane (also OT posts) on this thread?   I realize this thread's OP is a suspected serial troll, but the principle is the same.   So you all should take your "humor" to Murray's totally no-topic thread.

 

This one's still on-topic.

Get a life.

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Posted by schlimm on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:46 PM

Get real.  It is off topic, but just pretends to be on topic.  

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Posted by zugmann on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:58 PM

Real potato chips are fried in lard.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:32 PM

I remember Rhengold. Nasty stuff. I sure miss Ballantine's India Pale Ale, though. A cold winter will affect the price of beer and other cereal products. The Great Lakes were frozen solid longer than normal last winter so ships could not get to the docks at Thunder Bay, Ontario (for one) to load at the elevators. Because the elevators at the ports couldn't be emptied, the grain in the elevators on the prairies couldn't go anywhere. A large proportion of barley used for beer production is malted at the Weyermann plant in Bamberg, Germany. The barley gets shipped there in bulk by ship and train, then comes back to breweries all over the world in bags. Without fresh barley, the whole process stops and beer becomes more expensive. A lack of room on the rails due to all the oil travelling around means pretty much the same thing, a lack of barley at the malting plants.  a lot of my friends here in Toronto run small breweries and they all get malted barley from Weyermann's and yes prices went up as a result of last winter's extreme cold.

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Posted by schlimm on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:50 PM

"Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer."

"Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one."

"Get a smile every time; make it Ballantine."

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Posted by wanswheel on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:00 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:46 PM

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"Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one."

"The F&M Schaeffer Brewery, New York and Albany New York and Baltimore Maryland." 

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:22 PM

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"Schaeffer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one."

Which reminds me of a bad (and now politically incorrect) joke about a woman whose doctor told her to drink lots of Schaeffer....

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Posted by wanswheel on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:41 PM
In Heaven there is no beer, that’s why…
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Posted by Paul of Covington on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:07 PM

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Posted by greyhounds on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:57 PM

15% of the people drink 85% of the beer.

I don't know about potato chips.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:23 AM

I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer.  Dad used to keep one in the silverware drawer in the kitchen.

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:50 AM

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I sure miss Ballantine's India Pale Ale, though.

You do know that in August they brought it back, trying to re-create the original formula.

I honestly don't know whether this was a New Coke sort of situation.  I had only peripheral exposure to 'true' Ballantine before they changed the formula, and if memory serves it was kind of like the Laphroaig of brews -- 'it takes a verra determined laddie to get that stoof doon' ...

The 'revised standard version' has been available all these years (if you don't mind that its brewing has been outsourced to Miller 'and it shows' ... ;-} )

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:19 PM

Ballantines' IPA is coming back? That to me was one of the benchmarks of the American IPA style and for the price, you couldn't beat it! Sure, there's better beer around these days, but I sure have fond memories of it. A really great inexpensive beer? Yuengling's! Not that I want to turn a train column into one about beer but beer and trains go together like beer and hell, anything! 

Schaefer pleasure doesn't fade even when your thirst is done!

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for people who are having fun, Shaefer is the

one beer to have when you're having more than one!

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Posted by Wizlish on Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:40 PM

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A really great inexpensive beer? Yuengling's!

If I may make a suggestion -- their Black & Tans are ambrosia!  Almost as good as the New Amsterdam Black & Tans, which are right at the top of the list for me.

I'll also put in a plug here for Black Douglas, the official steam technologists' drink.  (Broughton also does IPA, and probably does it quite well...)

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:18 PM

You like Black & Tan from Yuengling's? You are a gentleman of good taste! I'm not familiar with Black Douglas and Broughton, they sound English. Are they? As an aside, this weekend is Cask Days in Toronto- look it up on your googler. There'll be real ale from Britain and California and I sure could use some Sierra Nevada Torpedo on cask and that's a fact! 

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Posted by Norm48327 on Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:43 PM

Moose Drool = great beer.

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:04 PM

 "How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size."

Beer Can Potato Chips I think U are on to something.

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:07 PM

We cant malt grain here?

A large proportion of barley used for beer production is malted at the Weyermann plant in Bamberg, Germany

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Posted by railtrail on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:08 PM

FX Matt in Utica makes Saranac and Utica Club and gets grain via SUZYQ

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:14 PM

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 "How do they get the chips into the aluminum cans?  It seems like the opening in the top of the can would be too small for chips of any decent size."

Beer Can Potato Chips I think U are on to something.

 

They call them 'Pringles'.

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Posted by schlimm on Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:37 PM

CSSHEGEWISCH

I'm disappointed, nobody has an opener for Atlas Prager Beer.  Dad used to keep one in the silverware drawer in the kitchen.

 

 
"Atlas Prager get it.
 Atlas Prager got it!"
 
With a slogan like that, no wonder they went out of business.

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