As Australians have seen their local supermarket’s freezer filled with frozen chips again, they might assume that the potato shortage is over. Heavy rainfall and major flooding in recent months impacted the country's potato production causing a 25 per cent spike in the wholesale potato price. Shortages were seen along the east coast and in Tasmania and Western Australia.
But it seems like sign things are getting better. At a Queensland Aldi, one customer took a snap of a supermarket freezer filled with frozen chips. The post said: 'Chippies! Imported from Belgium, but, I'll take them.'
The shortage also affected the commercial sector, with restaurants forced to either try hand-cut chips, or close their doors altogether.
Source: msn.com
