Podcast [English World] Episode 145: Calbee chip packaging goes monochrome

Will black-and-white packaging become the new norm for potato chips?

Three Kyodo News reporters — Keinosuke Taga, Eriko Arita and Eduardo Martinez -- discuss a recent decision by Japan’s leading potato chip maker, Calbee Inc., to begin selling some of its major snack products in black-and-white packaging. Listen as they share their thoughts on how the conflict in the Middle East led to this decision, how it is affecting other aspects of our lives, and what the future of food packaging might look like.

Article mentioned in the podcast:

Naphtha shortage puts Calbee chips, snacks in monochrome packaging

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing and how to translate tricky Japanese phrases into English. Have fun listening to journalists discuss recent articles as they occasionally go off on unrelated tangents.