It was an update on CNN’s Iran war live updates page.
If you’re shopping for your favorite Calbee chips in Japan and see that familiar bag in black and white – it’s not a printing mistake. The Japanese snack maker said on Tuesday it will temporarily change the packaging to grayscale and ditch its typically bright and eye-catching colors in stores nationwide because of supply chain disruptions from the Iran war.
The move comes in response to “supply instability affecting certain raw materials amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East,” the company said in a statement. The new packaging will apply to 14 products from May 25 and won’t affect product quality, Calbee said. The stripped-down packaging might mean shoppers need to rely more on the words on the packets, rather than the colors, when quickly grabbing their favorite flavors from supermarket shelves.
Usually, regular Calbee consumers would know that the red bag is for lightly salted potato chips, while the yellow packets with green labels are for seaweed flavor fans. The company didn’t specify exactly which shortages had prompted the change. But a spokesperson from the Japanese government said it had “received no reports of immediate supply issues regarding printing ink or naphtha, and we recognize that the necessary volume for Japan as a whole is being secured.”
Naphtha is a petroleum byproduct sometimes used in parts of the ink manufacturing process.
All packaging should be monocolor with a basic label and nutrition facts. Fuck advertisement and psychological manipulation.
While we’re at it, anything sold as a meal should be required to be nutritionally complete.
If there wound be a petition for this I would sign it.
Also all the pigments used should be those edible ones that gets printed in pills & such.
Can’t wait for the chud meltdown when doritos return to the silent era.
We can’t afford the air conditioning, so they’re now Room Temperature Ranch™ flavoured
The Nile red diesel derived hot sauce.
RETVRN

Wait no, not like that

US sanctions since Trump’s first presidency made it so that children’s colour books in Iran had to be printed in black and white.
So you will take the black and white candy bags and besilence yourselves.
In the top corner it also specifically says
“Petroleum Resource Conserving Packaging”
石油原料節約パッケージ

temporarily


Sorry, I thought these were @Cowbee@hexbear.net 's chip bags.
I do like the monochrome, actually! As far as chip bags go.
Ngl I think I like the grey scale packaging more
The chips have fallen, billions must crisp.
Calbee?

Wake me up when my local Famima has supply issues with the much superior Koikeya Karamucho Super Hot Chili. And if I can’t get Pocari Sweat, that’s really when we’re gonna have an issue
Imagine a completely empty Don Quijote. I can’t fathom it.
Next will be a return to paper (hemp) instead of plastic? We can dream.
So they plan to go back to no added value of colour packaging bcs ppl are shallow/stupid/like shiny?










