Potatoes everywhere but not a French fry to eat in the US
With fastfood outlets closed due to Covid-19, farmers are destroying tonnes of potatoes while retail freezers are fresh out of potato products
24 April 2020 - 14:05
Shopper Lexie Mayewski is having a hard time finding frozen French fries in Washington, DC-area supermarkets in the wake of coronavirus-fueled stockpiling.
On the other side of the country, Washington state farmer Mike Pink is weighing whether to plough under 30 tonnes of potatoes worth millions of dollars that would have been turned into French fries for fast-food chains such as McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Chick-fil-A...
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