Talk:Kettle Foods

Trivia
In my opinion none of the pop culture references are remotely notable or worth integrating into the text. Nor are they cited. I'm moving them here for discussion.

Appearance in popular culture

 * 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 film Short Circuit (1986), Kettle brand potato chips are seen with groceries in the back of an elderly couple's pickup truck.
 * In the film Born in East L.A. (1987), Rudy's cousin, Javier, is seen eating Kettle Chips while the phone rings in the background.
 * 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."

Katr67 17:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Additions by User:Michael Slocum
In 1979 Michael Slocum began roasting the first product while employed at the Golden Temple Bakery in Eugene, the nuts where for natural foods stores. In 1981 Slocum he took the old nut roaster to Salem, he started setting up equipment for new products: peanuts, sunflower seeds, and mixed nuts. Then in 1982 adding a small oil roaster for more products, Slocum and a fellow employee working a graveyard shift for a rush order were cooking potatoes on top of peanuts for early morning snacks, Healy coming back from a vacation asked Slocum if he could make a chip, his response “get me a slicer”, after some experiments the chips was born. Healy was in India at the time, when he got back, the original group picked the name. Slocum roasted nuts by day, and with a small group of employees produced chips at night, Slocum tricked out a small sealer to seal 6 bags at a time, he packaged the first bags, and the first night produced 20 cases of chips. After Some research in the East Coast in Pennsylvania and visited the Kettle- Cooked Potato Chip plant in Akron, Ohio. Slocum found the right equipment to expand the plant with help from Michael Seasons of Chicago. The new plant used these ideas in 1983, which lead to the success of the company. Slocum ideas where used after he left the company in 1985. The Original chips were fried in Cold-pressed Safflower oil. He introduced the first flavors New York Cheddar and Green Onion and Yogurt with help from Healy's wife; she loved the flavors, too. Slocum is now a chef in the Portland area, and volunteers helping other in Hunger/ Homeless issues.

Hi Michael, and welcome to Wikipedia. Unfortunately we can't use original research in our articles. Though I'm sure everything you say is true, we can't include it in an article unless it has citations to reliable, third-party sources. I know this is a frustrating aspect of the project, but hopefully you have been interviewed in the press or else this history has been written in a reliable source? If you can provide sources we can work on putting the information back in the article. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Katr67 (talk) 22:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Taisetsu na mono!!!
An important thing, you guys! Kettle brand kettle chips are by NO MEANS the only kettle chips in existence... so kettle chips probably shouldn't redirect here, any more than 'cola' should redirect to coca-cola. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 04:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No, but they did trademark the term, and only later lost the trademark for failing to renew with the USPTO. The Coke inventor did not come up with the term Cola, it came from a plant. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

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Suggested changes
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Hello! I work with Kettle Foods' public relations agency. We'd like to make a few updates to the Kettle Foods page but aren't sure of the best way. After exploring some of our options we thought we'd check with you first to see if you have any suggestions for next steps. The changes aren't drastic and are posted below with citations. When you have a moment, please let me know what you'd recommend - Thanks! Eemx7 (talk) 16:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Kettle Foods is an international manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods based in Salem, Oregon, United States. As of 2006, it was the largest natural potato chip brand in the US. The company, originally founded in 1978 by Cameron Healy, is today owned by the British private equity firm Lion Capital LLP. It is operated and distributed separately in the US and the UK[1]. [Pete comments -- maybe remove "however," otherwise seems fine] [Eemx comments -- done]

The Kettle Brand features all-natural products. Kettle Foods' most famous product is the batch-cooked potato chip. Designed to allow consumers to choose future chip flavors, Kettle Foods launched its annual People’s Choice campaign in 2004[2]. Winning Kettle Brand(TM) Potato Chip flavors include Spicy Thai, Tuscan Three Cheese, Buffalo Bleu, Island Jerk, and Death Valley Chipotle[3]. [Pete comments -- not sure this is interesting to the general reader. If included at all, should be summarized.] [Eemx comments -- Agreed, tried to shorten and pulled the first two sentences back over from original article as intro. If you don't think it's interesting the last sentence with flavors can go. Just included because flavor information is included in the current article and is outdated.]

In 2007, Kettle Foods expanded its U.S. operations and built the nation's first LEED Gold certified food processing facility in Beloit, Wisconsin[4]. [Pete notes -- reads like marketing material. Rewrite first sentence. Biobeatle seems like a made-up word.] [Eemx response -- yup, totally a made up word - took it out. Axed the first sentence and tried to clean up the tone. Better? The factory really is notable...it's verified as the first food factory in the country to get LEED Gold certification. Maybe combine with the paragraph below?]

18 wind turbines atop the Beloit factory generate approximately 28,000 kilowatt hours annually and the rooftop solar array on the Salem, Oregon headquarters generates 130,000 kWh per year. 100% of the electricity used in Kettle Foods' U.S. facilities is offset through the purchase of wind energy credits[5] and all waste oil is recycled into biodiesel. [Eemx comments - clarified the location of the solar array in this paragraph and took out mention of its size relative to others in the PNW. Added the biodiesel information here without BioBeetle reference - though the BioBeetle fleet is published and I could provide citation if you think it's interesting.]

In October 2007, campaigns were launched on popular networking site Facebook calling for a boycott of UK operated Kettle Foods products, following allegations that the company was attempting to dissuade workers at its Norwich factory from joining trade union Unite. The company refutes the claim but admits that it has taken advice from Omega Training, a UK subsidiary of US company The Burke Group, specialists in union avoidance. [Pete notes -- I think "refute" is the wrong word here] [Eemx notes - I didn't touch this paragraph but I agree with you.]


 * 1. http://www.kettlechips.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=172
 * 2. http://www.brandweek.com/bw/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003695782
 * 3. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/113/next-tactics.html
 * 4. http://www.newsweek.com/id/43548
 * 5. http://www.bakingbusiness.com/Feature_Stories.asp?ArticleID=89459


 * This looks generally useful, but will need a bit of work. I added some notes above. I'm happy to do the editing myself, but wanted to share my perspective on it first. I still need to check citations. Finally, this sentence from the original article is missing: "Kettle brand potato chips feature expeller-pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil." It's not cited, so maybe leaving it out is best -- just pointing it out. -Pete (talk) 17:08, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much, Pete. Would love it if you'd do the edit as you see fit - thanks!  I agree with all your comments and have made efforts to rewrite the sections in question above - see what you think. I didn't mean to leave out the oil sentence and it's still true (I could find citation if you'd like). Thank you so much for your help! Eemx7 (talk) 20:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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 * https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kettle_foods_inc/#.WxfpNmaZPfY --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:01, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

"natural potato chip"
Where can I buy unnatural potato chips? The word "natural" is even linked to the article natural foods, which says very clearly that the meaning of "natural" in this context is in no way defined or enforced by any laws. Quote: "the term assures nothing". Let's just leave unscientific non-neutral advertising lingo out of the article, shall we? --BjKa (talk) 15:19, 12 February 2020 (UTC) 15:18, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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