Kettle Foods
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Kettle Foods is an international manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods under the masterbrand Kettle, which boasts having all-natural products, free from many common, unhealthy ingredients such as trans fat. The business was started in 1978 by Cameron Healy and has its headquarters in Salem, Oregon. As of 2006, the company employed more than 600 people worldwide. Kettle's most famous product is their batch-cooked potato chip; the unique flavors are especially popular. They occasionally hold contests and large polls to introduce new flavors, and print the names of the voters on the bags of the new flavors. The 2006 contest winners were Tuscan Three Cheese and Buffalo Bleu; past contest winners include Cheddar Beer and Spicy Thai.
Kettle brand potato chips feature expeller-pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil. This makes them healthier than traditional potato chips by being relatively low in saturated fat.
[edit] Trivia
- In the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill can be seen eating Kettle brand potato chips in the back of his stepmother's car in the scene where the two of them pick up Ted for school.
- In the television series The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob can be seen eating Kettle brand potato chips on top of the lights above the stage of Krusty the Klown's last show. He labels them the "perfect side dish… for revenge."
- The name Kettle Chips is derived from the original method of manufacturing the chips which involved cooking thin sliced potato wedges in a kettle.
[edit] References
- KettleFoods.com :: Our History. Retrieved on November 22, 2005.
- Kettle Foods Offsets 100% of Conventional Energy Use
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