I’v actually wondered why potatoes are sold in such huge bags. Now I know!
Pennsylvania potato farmers across the state are cheering in unison for state Sen. David Argall this week.
Senator, this spud’s for you.
The state is one step closer to liberating potato sales from long held weight restrictions on the sale of taters. Currently, potatoes can only be sold in in bags that total less than three pounds or in exact weights of three, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 or multiples of 100 pounds.
That’s right: It’s illegal to sell potatoes in quantities that equal say four pounds, or seven, or 22.
Following the state House’s approval to lift the weight restrictions by a vote of 197-0 on Thursday, it’s apparent that lawmakers aren’t teetering on tubers and Argall declared Pennsylvania “one step closer to repealing this obsolete restriction and allowing the market to dictate potato packaging.”
Maybe this is progress. Maybe not. If you pick up a 5 pound bag of potatoes today you know that there are 5 pounds of potatoes inside. Next week if you pick up a bag of patatoes it may only have 3 pounds of potatoes inside. That’ll really suck once you’ve arrived home and discover that you only have 3 pounds of potatoes when your recipe calls for 5 pounds. A strict standard of weights and measures was the invention of Hammurabi. It was needed way back then and it’s need today. Anyway why is the Pennsylvania legislature wasting its time on this kind of crap? Aren’t there more important issues for them to be discussing? Oh wait, could it have something to do with campaign dollars? Never mind. To hell in a handbasket.
That would be to hell in a potato(e) sack!
lless, that would have been to obvious. 🙂