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Article: THE CHIP-OFF IN A BLIND TASTE TEST OF BAKED AND REGULAR POTATO AND TORTILLA CHIPS, 79% OF THE PARTICIPANTS PICKED THE GENUINE, HIGH-FAT ARTICLE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1996
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Byline: KEITH MARDER Staff writer
The results were undeniable. If you want to have happy party-goers, load them down with fat, cholesterol and sodium.
Why? Because four out of five of our happy chompers preferred good old-fashioned, greasy chips over their healthier counterparts in a pre-Super Bowl XXX Times Union taste test.
Maybe by Super Bowl XXXI it will be different. By then, olestra, the first zero-calorie artificial fat, will be available. Procter & Gamble received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval this week and plans to produce olestra-laced Pringles potato chips in test markets within nine months. Maybe that stuff will be ...