Farmers in Belgium are urging their fellow citizens to do the heroic thing and eat more fries during the country’s coronavirus lockdown, due to a massive oversupply of potatoes that can’t be shipped to other nations.
The small European country has a stockpile of approximately 750,000 tons of taters that will rot if they’re not eaten soon, according to Romain Cools, the secretary general of Belgapom, Belgium’s potato growers union.
That’s why he’s urging Belgians to “eat fries twice a week, instead of just once.” Patriotism never sounded so tasty. It’s a novel solution to a dire problem affecting farmers in many countries around the world, as the COVID-19 lockdowns have disrupted many interdependent food supply chains.