The rebrand isn't because of stupidity it's because money. Like always.

Big picture: Lay’s generates about 60% of PepsiCo’s annual sales but has seen sales slip every quarter for the last three years. Consumers in every income bracket have been ditching classic snack brands amid rising prices.

Probably because it's based on this marketing piece: https://www.pepsico.com/our-stories/story/from-potato-to-chip-the-next-chapter-of-lays

My guess is that when you see a stamp that says "Made with real potatoes" you just assume that they were waved at a potato at some point during manufacturing. :)

I just always assume they're lying to me because they're allowed to. That's what happens when regulations go out the window, trust does too.

Ok. But I would say not knowing potato chips are made of potato is slightly worse.

I just had raw peanuts for the first time this week and the taste was intriguing. It really brings home how they are "legumes" when they taste more like peas than peanut butter.

That's a little more understandable. Peas grow on vines, so you'd expect peanuts to be somehow similar to peas. I guess they get their name because they're in pods like peas but without being told, how would someone guess they grow underground?

And cashews do grow on trees (they're technically a fruit) and are similar to peanuts. Would anyone guess that cashews are fruits?

TIL I thought they were like beans hanging in the air.

They’re also called ground nuts for this reason! Boil a potato and nobody bats an eye.. Boil a peanut and everyone loses their mind.

TBH, until just now I hadn't given much thought to how peanuts are grown. 🤔

and the potatoe isnt a vegatable, its a tuber, the real parts of the plants are berries, and leaves. which are poisonous.

This reminds me of ppl when they think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Yeah that's just crazy.

Everyone knows chocolate milk comes from any cows that are fed large amounts of chocolate.

Guessing the question wasn't clear, since Lays is both the name of the original product (potato chips) and the brand (which without looking it up I would guess includes other types of chips such as corn). But results from a well-formulated survey would have less clickbait value, so the shock results get reported.

It's due to people still buying them after every price increase.

Potato chips is like using the full name. A lot of the time it's just "chips"

Even the maize chips?

I don't think I've heard of a lawsuit over it, but the veggie snacks really are made of vegetable starch. Of course that doesn't make them healthy, but they're not just potato chips.

Pepsico basically said on an investor call they will keep jacking up the price so long as people keep buying .

So here we are I guess.

Must be a US thing, in the UK they are easily one of if not the most popular brand of crisps (chips) they are called walkers here but the logo is the same. We have stricter regulations on what is classed as food in this country though.

This has to be from the onion. Some reporter didn’t check their source.

I mean, unless the question was, "What are Lays potato chips made of," which answers itself so it wouldn't be used. But if the question was "What are Lays chips made of," I could see how someone might not answer potatoes. And who even asks that question in poll anyway? I feel like there's a universe of context collapse here.

I don't eat a ton of chips, but with the prices, I haven't bought any name brand chips in over two years.

Well the title isn’t exactly accurate. It references a 2021 study to get the title but Pepsi said nothing about it

The changes come as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes companies to ditch artificial ingredients.

This is likely the bigger factor.