A Wisconsin woman opened a bag of Clancy’s Ripple Potato Chips and found a super old Nokia cell phone inside. Ewww! Who uses a Nokia that old?! I mean, ewww, a cell phone in a bag of chips! The phone apparently wouldn’t turn on but it had a T-Mobile SIM inside “and a discolored circle on the back, as if it was once connected to a belt clip.”
The chips were purchased from an Aldi store and, according to the Janesville Gazette, the woman was told that “the store would pull all the chips with the same brand and expiration date as hers.” She was also offered a new bag of chips but she refused, saying “You kind of don’t want chips for a while.” An investigation is currently underway by the FDA.
Local woman finds unpleasant surprise in her potato chips [Gazettextra.com via Consumerist]
This is very strange. FDA should be alarmed a bout it.
Gotta say, I worked with a lot of Hispanics in factories that use old phones like that. Usually pre-paid. Probably had it out on the floor when they shouldn’t have.
wow…. how did this racist piece of white trash end up here? (nick) usually people who read tech blogs are decent human beings.
Leo assumes nick couldn’t be hispanic himself. There is absolutely nothing racist about nick’s comments. He simply states the facts. You, however, jumped to some conclusions!
I have to agree with nick. I too work with many mexican-americans who have older pre-pay phones.
PLEASE make your racist below.
I stick with what i said, his def racist.. and you steve are just trying to justify someones ignorance… and I’m Hispanic myself and I’ve never heard of any of my people being called nick that’s as white as it gets.
It sure was racist. If you wanted to make your point across you could have said, minority workers or just plain factory workers, but specifically targeting Hispanics or “Mexican-americans” makes the coment racist and bad choice. On another note, I traveled west many times and have seen ranchers and their kids using this kinds of old phones, also pre-paid ones out on the fields. We’re In America for crying outloud everyone deserves the right to be equaly retro when in comes to technology but not racism!
NEWS FLASH! THE INTERWEBS ISN’T POLITICALLY CORRECT!
Stop hugging your tree you’re going to get a rash on your arms bitch.
And then Americans ask why are they viewed like they are around the rest of the planet. Hint: It’s because comments like this by people like this.
Surely the Internet is not politically correct, maybe you are not either, but surely you know how karma tends to behave…
Give my best regards to your Aunt-Mommy and Brother-Daddy.
“You kind of don’t want chips for a while.” — Jeez, why the heck NOT? I’d have gone ahead and eaten the whole bag, and then tried to hack the phone.
As you can tell, I’m an engineer, not a food critic.