When a woman from Ed in northwestern Dalsland was about to eat chips in front of the TV last autumn, she got an uncomfortable surprise. One of the chips she put in her mouth was hard and tasted like plastic.
I thought 'help what is this'. I took it out and looked. It was a plastic chip, the same size as a regular chip, seasoned and ridged. I told my husband who emailed OLW and sent a picture, she said to Dalslänningen in November.
The chip manufacturer Orkla, which owns OLW, soon suspected that it could be a golf ball. After an analysis of the plastic piece, they have now been able to establish that this was the case, according to P4 Väst.
It occurs that golf balls that end up in potato fields follow into the chip factory. According to Johanna Mossberg, communications manager at Orkla, they have approximately two to three such cases per year.
There is a sorting of foreign objects, but golf balls and potatoes have approximately the same size and density, so in very rare cases, golf balls can escape the sorter, she said in a previous statement to P4 Väst.
