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kyushubill
Well I hardly think anyone will starve because of the great French Fry and butter shortages of 2014.
Let us be happy we have these first world problems. Also, McD's is deadly any way. Perhaps it will lead to folks making healthier options.
Tim_Fox
Japan already grows its own potatoes. It should grow more commercially.
GalapagosnoGairaishu
Tokyo was the scene of rice riots less than 100 years ago (in 1919). Japan's overall food self-suffiency is below 40 percent. Climate change, political instability, disease, pollution of the oceans, overfishing and breaks in the distribution chain (like labor problems at ports) may someday come together and create a "perfect storm." Of course when that happens, nobody will be spared.
bjohnson23
eat somewhere else
Pukey2
Kawaisou!
Commodore Shmidlap (Retired)
But MosBurger is okay, right? Please tell me the Mos is well-stocked with fries!
avigator
Good,stay healthy.
Brandon Sherman
Greedy Ass dock workers, aren't you over paid enough? I declare today kick a dock worker in the Nutz day.
375sensei
And the arteries of people around the world and in Japan can breathe a sigh of relief!
Wakarimasen
you can still buy multiple small portions, just not a large.
jerseyboy
Yup, just two of the four food groups.
dcog9065
So what's the deal, you're just getting less fries in the boxes? Or you can't buy large, etc.?
nath
Can't buy medium and large, only small. Sets that previously came with a medium will now come with a small (and a price discount) and cannot be upgraded to a larger size of fries.
dcog9065
@Strangerland: Seriously? Damn, that sucks.. Love Maccas fries..
SamuraiBlue
Whether it be fries or butter when relying supply soley on import put you in a vualnable position at the mercy of the exporting nation whether it be at the production level or logistics.
Akemi Wada
We can buy as many small portions as we'd like. The problem is that it costs more than medium size.
Cricky
Rationing first butter now potatoes Abenomics is really working, the farming system in Japan is so inept it can't grow potatoes or supply butter? Think there might be a problem, but who can fix it? Last time I checked Japan was not at War and was a first world nation, now we have rationing?
davestrousers
Harsh times. Let's hope the airlifts succeed and we're not three french fry deficient happy meals away from anarchy.
Frungy
... Are there even any potatoes in McDonalds "French fries"? I ask because they are not actually solid potato, being made of some sort of reconstituted starch with a stabilizer added. The label doesn't say fried potatoes. Have you ever seen an "eye" or other natural potato shape in your McDonalds French fry?
nath
Oh, my a shortage of soggy slop fries at McD due to a strike in the USA.
I think they are as much potato as Pringles, give me some proper fries even if it would cost a tad more. I stick with Mos and Burger King as they also got Onion Fries.
Thunderbird2
Should be proper chips anyway, not those tasteless twigs known as 'fries'... nice chip shop style chips. Yum. (And for American readers, I mean UK chips... not your potato chips... which we call 'crisps')
Anyway... never really liked those fries. Tasteless lengths of plastic.
Mike O'Brien
And just how is Japan's policy suppose to control a work slow down in a foriegn country?
Scnadal.Lova
youll find that french fies are way more tastier if you make your own.
falseflagsteve
I avoid things that are bad for me, one of which is eating the stuff that passes for food at McDonalds. their French fries are a terrible thing to eat and should be avioded by all.
Mike O'Brien
Listen to falseflagsteve, he knows what is best for everyone.
nigelboy
No. But I'm amazed at the lengths people go through to blame this 'shortage' on Abenomics when it's simply a slowdown (half work strike) of dock workers at PNW ports where movement of ocean containers are at snails pace both inbound and outbound.
turbotsat
No less an authority than the U.S. Potato Board says it's "----- port delays"!
http://tinyurl.com/mbf2y5e