Japan: Chips are down for snack lovers as storm wrecks supply of spuds

For potato chip lovers, the typhoon that just dumped a monstrous payload of rain on Hokkaido spells a double whammy. Typhoon No. 10 meant farmers could not harvest the potato crop in Hokkaido, so the island's famed spuds are in short supply. Major snack firm Calbee Inc. has been forced to postpone the release of this year’s “A la potato” series in[Read More...]