Date: 2011-03-02 12:56 Security: Public xpost http://soph.livejournal.com/217598.html Mood: amused Tags: amusing Subject: Walkers Ready Salted crisps

You know, the text on the back of Walkers Ready Salted crisps recently is a little disturbing, I think.

"Some spuds long for cheesy onion-ness, others for a dash of Worcester sauce. But the homegrown spuds in this bag were so proud of their roots(!), they yearned to stay as potatoey as possible. So we granted them their wish and gave them our simplest seasoning and turned them into a bag of classic Ready Salted."

It's that last part that gets me. I mean... if you're going to attribute human-ness to potatoes and have them yearn to be "as potatoey as possible", good marketing strategy would then suggest not saying how they then were converted into crisps for your delectation, right? ;p