| Want dark? NEVER EAT PRINGLES/DEHYDRATED POTATES (mashed etc). Sorry for the caps but its deserved. Dehydrated potatoes aren't graded. Read on for gross information. I recently had the pleasure of doing HVAC/controls for potato/onion storages in Washington state. Some storages are so gross I couldn't believe it was legal. Dead and living animals/rodents and nests etc. Mold and bacteria, rancid water pools, truly disgusting. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the videos I took. Some of the climacell water tanks (some the size of pools) hadnt been cleaned in years and had so many dead frogs and whatnot they were literally bubbling cesspools. And had been running that 'water' over the climacell pads to then be blown all over the storage, products, and people working in them. And that wasn't the bad part. The bad part was seeing piles of rotted and disintegrating potatoes go to dehydration machines to become pringles, dehydrated mashed potatoes, etc. They don't throw away the piles that go bad. They let them sit and stew until they've a full load and truck em out. The trucks would literally have black horrible smelling slime spilling out all sides of the trailer, the weighing station was beyond disgusting. Sure, heat will kill the bacteria, mold, fungi etc, and they will all be bleached- but once you've seen it, it's life changing. I shop mostly at farmers markets now for my veggies/fruits. After seeing potato and onion storages, processing plants and whatnot, the things foos companies can legally do is fucking frightening. I used to love Pringles. |