so what the hell have i been eating/

Now they'll taste like shiat. Oh wait.

I don't get it? If you're eating enough potato chips to get cancer then you are probably a fat ass anyway and are going to die early. I doubt most of you will see any noticeable difference in lifespan by eating "healthier" chips.

Nanny State strikes again. If I didn't want neurotoxin in my snack food, I'd buy corn chips.

I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.

It's not really an ingredient, it's a byproduct from cooking. You can add acryalmide to your own potatoes by cooking them too long.

Dropping labor day?
That sounds like a Shelbyville kind of idea.

/monorail

You think that's bad, they still have DHMO in them. http://www.dhmo.org and get your eyes opened to this REAL risk.

And once you read that come back to this article in sfgate and see how many of the same rhetorical tactics are used.

I'm all for letting the general public know what they're eating but...

How long have people been frying potatoes? Centuries? It seems that the amount of the chemical that is produced naturally would have a very, very, very low (if any) affect on one's chances of developing cancer.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

LESS cancer?? Awww man....

Pincy: I don't get it? If you're eating enough potato chips to get cancer then you are probably a fat ass anyway and are going to die early. I doubt most of you will see any noticeable difference in lifespan by eating "healthier" chips.

THIS. Feel good legislation in the guise of public safety. The net effect on butt cancer will be negligible. Our health problems go far beyond cooking our potato chips a bit too long.

err...effect. Effect. Not affect.

I know better (this much I know).

I sprinkle MSG on everything, seriously. That stuff is awesome.

Well, no matter how little they put in, I still don't want cancer in my food. Whether I know about it or not. Thanks California, your reactionary lawsuits are good for something.

crap i posted in the wrong story

I'm still not sure if this effects the entire US or just California.

Everything causes cancer. Your computer? Cancer. The air you breathe? Cancer. Obama's speeches? Cancer. BAN EVERYTHING! We, as a planet, must return to huts and small fishing villages. And while we will still use 2.3 worlds to sustain this lifestyle, and get cancer from a lack of sewage, we'll make protesters shut the hell up. And thats something I think we all agree is something that this world needs.

I'm craving salt and vinegar chips now... and I don't have any.


Great. :/

There is acrylamide in bread too.

Transpogue: I'm all for letting the general public know what they're eating but...

How long have people been frying potatoes? Centuries? It seems that the amount of the chemical that is produced naturally would have a very, very, very low (if any) affect on one's chances of developing cancer.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

Centuries ago people were only 4 feet tall and could barely make it through on or two Potato famines.
/that plural doesn't look right

F*ck Jerry Brown

McDonald's french fries will be next.

There's a study out there that says having NO radon in your home leads to higher lung cancer rates than having some trace amounts.

Psuedo protectionist organizations abuse the Ames test in order to declare everything carcinogenic. Even organic plants trip the Ames test because it's misused. Then they draw a straight line from zero to the levels needed to produce lab results, and make assumptions on the effects of lower concentrations.

Transpogue:
How long have people been frying potatoes? Centuries?

Evidence indicates the potato as a domestic food source in Peru about 7,000 years ago.

So yeah, centuries. Use the tubes!

I'm eating Cape Cod chips right now, so I'm really getting a kick, etc., etc.

/So much tastier than lays :)

Apperently they are breeding potatoes to have less of the toxic chemical. Why it doesnt matter: the shat is formed when you cook most any food, or deep fry it, or heat it (microwave)

Yum!

vincentfox: Transpogue:
How long have people been frying potatoes? Centuries?

Evidence indicates the potato as a domestic food source in Peru about 7,000 years ago.

So yeah, centuries. Use the tubes! tubers!

FTFY

But the cancer is where all the flavor is.

twisting kittens: im the first to write something

See that bag of dicks over there? Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and eat it.

FTFA: "The FDA has advised consumers that they can reduce the levels of acrylamide in fried potatoes by not over-browning them while cooking."

Um, isn't that the part that actually makes them taste good?

So I can restart work on my potato chip and slurpee diet book?

The working title is "Thin through malnutrition".

Good thing this is supported by science....

Jerry Brown is a farking retard.

n March, 2003, the International Journal of Cancer published an article with the forthright title "Fried potatoes and human cancer." The article reported on a study conducted between 1991 - 2000 in Italy and Switzerland that analyzed the risk of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, larynx, large bowel, breast and ovaries. It was led by Claudio Pelucchi whose team found "reassuring evidence for the lack of an important association between consumption of fried/baked potatoes and cancer risk."[19]

And in 2008

"So far, epidemiological studies have not shown any association between human cancer risk and dietary exposure to acrylamide. The purpose of this study was to conduct a nested case control study within a prospective cohort study on the association between breast cancer and exposure to acrylamide using biomarkers."

And in 2005

The March 15, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contained an article titled "Acrylamide Intake and Breast Cancer Risk in Swedish Women," written by Lorelei A. Mucci, ScD, MPH. The study cohort consisted of 43,404 Swedish women in the Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort. The women's greatest single source of acrylamide was from coffee (54% of intake), fried potatoes (12% of intake), and crisp bread (9% of intake).

Want to make Acrylamide? Burn your toast. Seriously. That's all it takes. It's the chemical on burnt chips.

Cape Cod Potato Chips are God's gift to man

Cape Cod==good.

Herrs==better.

Utz==better.

Terra Chips == Teh win.

You can have my cancer-causing chips when you pry them from my cold-dead malformed fingers.

I LIKE MY FOOD.

tea_and_cake: I'm eating Cape Cod chips right now, so I'm really getting a kick, etc., etc.

/So much tastier than lays :)

I went on a factory tour about ten years ago at Cape Cod chips. It looked like everything they were doing with the product was natural and simple. They were pretty early in the game of natural production.
/did not know they got bought up by the big boys

I was amazed that Mesquite BBQ Pringles had the highest concentration by far of acrylamide of the potato based foods and by that feat of every food tested...around 2500PPB when many foods have zero and even french fries are around 400-700PPB.

Yet, how often do I recall that horrible smell of opening some Pringles cans, industrial solvent smelling is the best I can come up with...the Mesquite BBQ ones were the only ones that didn't smell that way, they smelled nice...like food.

malibupetey: I was amazed that Mesquite BBQ Pringles had the highest concentration by far of acrylamide of the potato based foods and by that feat of every food tested...around 2500PPB when many foods have zero and even french fries are around 400-700PPB.

Yeah, but you need to put that in perspective of how much must be consumed to even register as a health risk.

Mesquite is pretty much a burn flavor to begin with.

a woman weighing 132 pounds (about 60 kg) could safely consume 30mg of acrylamide daily; a man weighing 180 pounds (about 82 kg), about 41 mg; a child weighing 40 pounds (about 18 kg), 9 mg.

So what does that translate to?

in a single day, the child can eat 13 KG (28 pounds) of French fried potatoes, the woman can drink 86 KG (23 gallons) of prune juice, and the man can eat 29 KG (63 pounds) of oven baked potatoes and each of them will have ingested less than 50 percent of the NOAEL of acrylamide.

Pincy: I don't get it? If you're eating enough potato chips to get cancer then you are probably a fat ass anyway

actually it would be impossible to eat that many. This is a trace substance. All those tests that subject rats to mega doses of some substance you only encounter in tiny amounts are worthless. Almost everything is a carcinogen under those circumstances.

Wrightsfd: Well, no matter how little they put in, I still don't want cancer in my food. Whether I know about it or not. Thanks California, your reactionary lawsuits are good for something.

you mean they are good to make people who are ignorant feel good about something that really had zero chance of hurting them.

http://consumerfreedom.com/feature_acrylamide_postcards.cfm

GREAT! Now where am I supposed to get my daily recommended value of cancer?

I'm gonna go buy a bag of Robust Russets as soon as they put the warning on them. I LIVE ON THE EDGE!

mmmmm.... cancer..... AAAAUUGHHHGHHGH

The fried crispy browned parts are the only thing that makes potatoes good. Does the same apply to sweet potato chips or just regular potato chips cause Terra sweet potato chips FTW.

malibupetey: I was amazed that Mesquite BBQ Pringles had the highest concentration by far of acrylamide of the potato based foods and by that feat of every food tested...around 2500PPB when many foods have zero and even french fries are around 400-700PPB.

Yet, how often do I recall that horrible smell of opening some Pringles cans, industrial solvent smelling is the best I can come up with...the Mesquite BBQ ones were the only ones that didn't smell that way, they smelled nice...like food.

Pringles are not . . . I repeat not . . . potatoe chips.

Cape Cod Chips are good. Love the dark-brown Robust Russets, the ones with all the nicotine or red dye #2 or whatever the hell it is they say they're full of.

/Damn, ended a sentence with a preposition.
//Self-grammar nazied.

darksarin: Cape Cod==good.

Herrs==better.

Utz==better.

Terra Chips == Teh win.
.

Utz better than Cape Cod? Utz taste like dog vomit compared to Cape Cod. Nohing beats CC salt and vinegar. nothing beats CCPC eaten with a sandwich, they hold their own.

Best. Chip. Evar. Hands down.

FTFA:
The FDA has advised consumers that they can reduce the levels of acrylamide in fried potatoes by not over-browning them while cooking.

Screw that, the brown parts are the best bits.

/mmm...crunchy, crunchy cancer

Everything causes cancer in California.

"Y'know it's not too late to let me sink these farkers."

thou does not diss the Frito Lay company.

it would be like badmouthing Dr Pepper.