Three Planes Full of Potatoes are Flying to Japan to Help Deal With its French Fry Shortage

Idaho is always happy.

Could be from anywhere, even GASP! a non-US supplier....

He says “ this is just to start since my manhood has been stripped away after being made gender neutral, just wait till August 19”.

KC10s w/ ketchup depart from KCLE/Cleveland near Heinz main plant and join the formation in Anchorage. Japan, sitting in the sea like a line of soup dumplings, won't need help with salt.

nope we have a tomato shortage!

Smells like money in the bank

Turn them into fries & see what they sell for per pound!

Cattle get shipped on the hoof at leaset they did that a few years back.

Juan Browne (aka blancolirio channel ) spoke of a 777 cargo flight he crewed.

Hauling Southern Cal produce LAX-LHR Feb. 2021. Then returning LHR-LAX bringing a cargo of Scottish farm-raised salmon.

Don't know the fishy economics. Some Socal readers might prefer fresher salmon, maybe from Puget Sound.

I dont know about now but a year ago idaho farmers were giving away what they could and throwing the rest in giant pits.

Meanwile your President slapped tarrifs on Canadian Potatoes being sold into the USA.

One of my old jobs at a fast food restaurant made it a fireable offence to *not* ask that to customers.

English chips or American chips. American ones would have a closer appearance. Happy New Year!

Its not that, its the chip factory (Not potato chips), can't make more. Almost everyone is using TSMC 7nm chips, let be AMD, Apple, Car computer etc.
There isn't simply enough wafer (silicon wafer) to go around.

Sushi and puffer fish perhaps?

Better not be the Japan virus ! God forbid

I was thinking the same thing. I worked for Golden Flake and the potatoes they would bring in for chips would be in a refrigerated 53'trailer loaded top to bottom with raw potatoes. The way the trailers were unloaded, they would be put on a lift and tilted backward at a steep angle and gravity fed into bins. I'd like to see that done with a 747.

The limits probably going to be weight, not volume. Given the potato has a high percentage water (as does the human body).

So, water is about 8 pounds per gallon, 1 kilogram per liter. I did not look up cargo weight ratings for B 747. The loadmasters will calculate it.

There are 30,288 cubic feet of cargo space in a B747-8F, which is one of the largest cargo planes flying today. I will let others (perhaps some math nerds from Idaho) calculate how many potatoes you can cram into a cubic foot, and then everyone else can do the simple math from there.

If the potatoes are really for McDonalds french fries, I would think that they are sending frozen, cut and processed fries and not raw potatoes. A considerable portion of the potatoes is not turned into usable fries or lost during processing, so why fly the waste (like the skins and end pieces, used for animal feed)?

The point: it's an odd aircraft load to remedy an odd situation - which can make it interesting to readers. Just because it doesn't fit with your definition of newsworthy?

Lighten up, big guy.

What state is that? We have massive failures in the distribution chain (today I went to buy 4 cinder blocks...none for months I guess). The sending potatoes is a story oddly, because it is a story. Who would have thought this just months ago (two weeks to 'flatten the curve"). We can directly blame Biden, Fauci and their minions and subservient lemming followers.

This is not a invite......Idaho is full!

I know, right! Dont they have enough rice? Wait, is this shipment for the folks in Iwakuni? Oooooh RAAAAAH!

As long as they paid for the shipping, I could care less if they overnight DC-10's full of ping-pong balls (you know, "they" love ping-pong).