The prices of all kinds of things have stayed stubbornly high even as inflation has cooled. And a spate of lawsuits point to algorithmic price fixing as the culprit. Just look at frozen potatoes. This episode was produced by Peter Balanon-Rosen with help from Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Bpyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Chef Jay Murray at Grill 23 in Boston shows off a dish of tater tots. Photo by MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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On the show today, we're gonna talk about potatoes. Frozen potatoes in particular. Tonight's forecast, a freeze is coming. We're gonna talk about frozen potatoes because they actually have a lot to say about where the country's at right now.
Brixton's baked potatoes mascot. You see it there. It's the tater trump.
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Sean Romsferm here with Katya Schwenk, reporter at The Lever, who has been investigating what is going on in the frozen potato industry.
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