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Three Planes Full of Potatoes are Flying to Japan to Help Deal With its French Fry Shortage
San Francisco-based forwarders Flexport has been contracted to fly "three 747 loads of potatoes" to Japan to ease a spud shortage caused by flood-related delays at Vancouver Port and ongoing supply chain bottlenecks. A recent move by McDonald’s to limit french-fry portions in Japan has fed speculation that the tater consignee is, in fact, McDonald's. (www.bnnbloomberg.ca) Más...I love how the Facebook news anchors come out of their holes to post on an aviation site. Pathetic.
Good on the farmers, I hope they made some good profit !
Good on the farmers, I hope they made some good profit !
And meanwhile in the USA the biggest thing being shipped is Illegal aliens, go figure.
Did anyone get permission from McDonald's to take all those potatoes out of Idaho?
this doesn't make a lot of sense, as the primary side at mcdonalds in japan is rice, and not fries. Just like in the philippines.
747s are wonderful. They could deliver fill dirt if they wanted to. They were still finding coal dust from the Airlift in the c-47s and c-54s when they retired them. I wonder what a 747 loaded with onions would smell like for the next 5 years?