Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Leicester!
My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with you Chazinski.
My fact this week is that walkers crisps only source potatoes that are grown far away from golf courses
because their factory machines can't distinguish between golf balls and potatoes.
That's amazing.
It's so cute.
So this is a walkers crisp factory in Leicester obviously and well done guys a very good contribution to the country I would say and yeah its factory has this density based sorting system so what it is is all the potatoes come in and the machine automatically knows the stuff that has the right density to be a potato that can be turned into a crisp but it just turns out the density of golf balls is exactly the same and so it used to be
that there'd be a lot of golf courses next to the fields where farmers are growing their potatoes which would then be shipped to walkers and lots of people got like hard bits of golf ball in their crisp packets.
So would you sort of you'd be on the green about to take your shot and a walkers machine would just nab your golf ball and whisk it off to a factory?
I didn't read the details of it but I would assume it's more likely
that you'd take your shot it would go over into the field
as you're a golfer James sometimes you miss hit things right not you just very very occasionally every single time I ever play yeah and then I get scooped up by the tractors but I wouldn't have thought I'd be able to replace my golf ball with a potato for instance I know it's weird isn't it it doesn't feel
like they're the same density I'll give it a go and so was this a problem whether whether people sending packets back going I expected salt and vinegar crisps and I got a golf ball like is that has that ever been a thing people did mention it mentioned
that they had hard crisps but
if you're interested each golf ball yields 18 crisps that's incredible but no the factory is really cool isn't it yeah so the one of the things I really like about it is basically a crisp goes from being a potato to being in a bag in 20 minutes wow which is extremely fast I think and there's a man at the end of the whole potato line who just said he's the potato overlord and he just looks at the potatoes and he said they're all good they're all good they're all good
that one's bad um yeah it doesn't sound quite as exciting
as you just made it look though because I think maybe you read the same article
as I did in the Leicester Mercury uh oh wow another great contribution to the country they said about this guy who's checking the actual potatoes go through they said he looks unsurprisingly utterly bored the worst thing is they probably got permission from walkers to go in and said oh well write it up really nicely they say look utterly bored this is surely the worst job in the whole building in the whole building