War-related shortages push iconic snack brand into monochrome packaging

“War impacts supply chains” usually conjures oil tankers and spreadsheets, not depressed cartoon snack mascots.

An unexpectedly and weirdly specific way Trump’s global disruption is touching civilian life: the Iran war has apparently reached the snack aisle. Japanese chip maker Calbee is sending some of its famously cheerful packaging into an austere black-and-white witness protection program. Why? The ink has run out.

The packaging on some snacks in Japan is turn…