March 14th is National Potato Chips Day in the U.S.A. and although mine is not a food blog I am happy to recycle my post about potato chips…
Some of you will have read it before of course.
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You cannot beat a chip buttie
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My dad was a bit old fashioned and he always disapproved of chip butties. I always thought this strange from a man who liked banana sandwiches.
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Oh, absolutely!
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Not you as well!
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No, I was agreeing with you, not your Dad.
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Thank goodness!
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😎
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Does “potato chips” to an American mean “crisps” ? That always confuses me enormously. Or do they call “crisps” “crisps”?
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As I understand it chips are fries and crisps are chips!
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Happy National Potato Chips Day.
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And also to you!
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Yes, Americans call crisps “chips” and chips “french fries”. While we didn’t invent the french fries (I believe Belgians originated them), we did invent chips, so can rightfully insist you call them chips, not “crisps”. LOL!
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I like your logic!
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this is one of my dream holidays, thanks for this, and you can be sure I’ll celebrate! here, potato chips are what we dip in onion dip, crunchy and in a bag. French fries are fried in oil, fresh and hot, and what brits call chips. this world is such an interesting place, and we all love potatoes in most any form, that is what is the same.
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Thanks for adding this and be sure to enjoy!
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As for “chips”, I understand the Spanish and French have some claim to their invention. Since the potato arrived in Europe through Spain… Oh well, wherever they came into being, I’m glad and I will eat them by any name, any time I can!
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I am such a huge potato chip fan, that I have to say, these are not potato chips pictured here, Andrew. For us in the U.S., potato chips are thin, flat disks. Super crunchy. What you are displaying in these scrumptious photos are, to us folks in the U.S., french fries. Either way, it’s all a celebration of the potato, no matter what country we live in. Cheers to you and potatoes too.
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French Fries are little strips of fried cardboard. Chips are deep fried cuts of potato. What you call chips are potato crisps.
Happy NPCD!
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National Potato Chip Day is worth celebrating, even with fries because they are also chips to many.
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I think that is a fair point!
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Ah, Andrew, I know you have a strong view of what constitutes a potato chip, and who am I to argue with it. 🙂 But Americans aren’t going to start calling their chips, Crisps. Americans eat some 1.5 billion pounds of potato chips a year. Whole sections of grocery stores are devoted to them and they come in an unending variety of sizes, flavors, and textures. I was eating ruffles today. They come with ridges. Yesterday, I was eating kettle-fried potato chips, the latest craze. And if you tire of potato chips you can also buy corn chips, in the yellow or blue variety. Or you can buy chips made form tortillas for dipping in your hot salsa. The American version of the potato chip goes back over a 150 years. They are hardly “Johnny come latelys.” Laughing. –Curt
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Thanks for adding this Curt. We get Ruffles, I rather like them. If I am eating crisps (chips) I chose Sea Salt and Black Pepper.
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I like those as well, Andrew. Do they package them as crisps in England?
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