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Article: French fry industry fears U.S. market may be saturated
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- February 24, 2002
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There is more fizzle and less sizzle in the french fry industry.
For most of the 1990s, Americans scarfed down more french fries
every year. The appetite of foreign french fry fans grew even faster.
Fry makers built a new plant almost every year just to keep up with
demand.
No more. After a decade of skyrocketing growth, consumption of
fries is expected to drop almost 1 percent in the fiscal year ending
this June 30, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department,
whichtracks such things. The result is an all-American french fry
glut.
Americans still eat a lot of fries:about 28 pounds per person
every year. But consumption has"grown so much for so long it's
getting to the point where (one has ...