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Spies are able to use Potato Chips packets to spy on us - honestly!

8/19/2014

 
Of the many tools available to spies, among the most impressive are the ones that detect how windows vibrate. Why? Because that's how you listen in on someone without having to bug them.
Whether it's lasers, ultrasound or radio waves, the idea is the same - someone speaking in a room creates a noise, a vibration in the air. Those vibrations move through the room towards the periphery, where they bounce off the walls and windows. Those vibrations are tiny, on the scale of a hundredth of a millimetre, but they're large enough to disturb the way that other light or sound waves bounce off the window from the other side. A spy can aim one of these devices at a window of a hotel from across the street, and piece together a reasonably good (if often very low fidelity) recording of what's happening inside the room.
Researchers at MIT, however, have managed to go one further than this - they've done it with a video camera, recording everyday objects like crisp packets and the leaves on a houseplant at high-speed. Vibrations on the scale of a five-thousandth of a pixel can be picked up after controlling for background "noise" with a suitable algorithm, giving a decent recording of the noise in the room at the time the video was made. In the announcement of the paper, due to be presented at computer graphics conference Siggraph next week, electrical engineer and lead author Abe Davis said:
When sound hits an object, it causes the object to vibrate. The motion of this vibration creates a very subtle visual signal that’s usually invisible to the naked eye. People didn’t realize that this information was there.”
Read More HERE


McCoy's launch American style flavour range called Fire Pit Sizzlers 

8/19/2014

 
McCoy's Fire Pit Sizzlers Hickory Smoked BBQ
German snack producers Intersnacks will shortly release a range of Crisps under its UK subsidiary KP.
The American style line will be called Fire Pit Sizzlers.
They will be marketed to a male Crisp eating market, and come in three varieties: Hickory Smoked BBQ Ribs, Buffalo Chicken Wings and Grilled Cheese. 
The range will be aimed squarely at the trend for "American-style, fire-based cooking and dining", said marketing director George Johnston.
"We understand the importance of leading the category, keeping things fresh and continuing to develop new flavours which we know will be a hit with our consumers. McCoy's Fire Pit Sizzlers are the perfect snack to enjoy on-the-go or at home, watching the many big sporting occasions and events this summer."


Canadian arm of Lay's announces its Do Us A Flavour entrants

8/19/2014

 
Lay's Bacon Poutine Chips Canada Do Us A Flavour
Bacon Poutine
Created by Guillaume Lorrain from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Guillaume says, "When I was young, every once in a while mom wasn't home to cook dinner. As a treat, my dad would take me out for Bacon Poutine."



Lay's Do Us A Flavour Canada Cinammon Bun Flavor
Cinnamon Bun
Created by Gloria Melanson of London, Ontario, Gloria says of her inspiration, "Remember when you went to Gramma's house and it smelled so good? That was Gramma's famous cinnamon bun baking in the oven! Gramma's got this one in the bag."


Lay's Do Us a Flavor Canada Wavy Ondulles Jalapeno Mac n Cheese
Wavy Ondulees Jalapeno Mac 'n Cheese
Created by Randall Litman from Calgary, Alberta, Randall says his inspiration for the Chips came from, "summer barbecues everything ends up on one plate. My favourite combination is when Lay’s Potato Chips end up next to macaroni salad - adding some jalapeño gives it a nice kick!"


Lay's Do Us a Flavor Canada Kettle Cooked Tzatziki Chips
Kettle Cooked Tzatziki
Created by Denise Vella of Cambridge, Ontario, Denise says of here flavor, "I fell in love with Greek food and flavour twice. First while backpacking through Europe after University and then again when I lived on the Danforth in Toronto. The flavours in Tzatziki take me back."


Kettle are yet to shake off a claim against their 'Reduced Fat Chips'

8/19/2014

 
Kettle reduced fat chips
The makers of Kettle brand chips have persuaded a federal judge to dismiss claims that its "reduced fat sea salt chips" were falsely advertised.
Richard Hall sued Diamond Foods, claiming that its statements about its Sea Salt Potato Chips with "40% reduced fat" were false and deceptive.
Hall claimed the reduced fat Chips are "only reduced in fat by 33%" and the phrase "40% less fat than regular Potato Chips" was deceptive because "regular Potato Chips are 'an inappropriate reference food.'" 
Diamond claimed that Hall did not suggest which of the allegedly deceptive statements he read before buying the Chips. The US District Judge Maxine Chesney agreed with Diamond.
Judge Chesney dismissed the claims related to the reduced fat Sea Salt Chips, but allowed Hall leave to amend the complaint with the statements he relied on before buying them.
The judge did however refuse to dismiss the part of the suit that related to Diamond's Backyard Barbecue chips, which were advertised as "All Natural."
The statement read, "Plaintiff, relying on dictionary definitions of the words 'all' and 'natural,' alleges that the 'all natural' representations 'indicate to the average reasonable person that 'the whole extent or quantity of' the ingredients contained in the food product are 'produced or existing in nature; not artificial or manufactured. To the extent defendant argues that a reasonable consumer would not understand 'all natural' to have the meaning alleged by plaintiff, the Court finds such arguments premature."
As Hall did not allege that he read Diamond's promotional materials or looked at their website before buying the Potato Chips, Chesney dismissed the claims related to the website, granting leave to amend.
A case management conference is scheduled in Chesney's courtroom on October 31st.
This of course all sounds very confusing to the layman, and very reliant on minutiae. We wonder what would happen, given the pedantry of the counter-claim, what would happen if the claimant provided a bag of regular Chips that were less than Kettle's suggested 40%?



Quex Foods managing director Angie Curwen takes over Kent Crisps

8/18/2014

 
Kent Crisps
Food companies Kent Crisps and Kentish Oils have been taken over by the boss of owners Quex Foods Angie Curwen, after she completed a management buyout from Quex Park Estates in Birchington with the backing of merchant banking group Close Brothers.
Kent Crisps produce varieties like Oyster and Vinegar and Roast Beef and Spitfire Ale flavour crisps while Kentish Oils manufacture and bottle cold-pressed rape seed oils.

As the Ashmore Cheese & Onion are among our UK favourites of the flavour variety at Chips & Crisps, we are excited about what the future may hold.
Read More HERE


Drunk Woman eats Potato Chips off of subway floor

8/18/2014

 
A video that has been viewed by so many people worldwide, it would be remiss of us to fail to include it.
Fortunately the young lady's face is not visible otherwise it would be tantamount to bullying, according to YouTube's rules.

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