Festival Days – National Potato Chip Day (USA)

Posted on March 14, 2023 | 14 Comments

March 14th in the USA is Potato Chips Day which I confess makes me smirk because in the USA they don’t even know what a potato chip is …

Read a story about chips Here…

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14 responses to “Festival Days – National Potato Chip Day (USA)”

beth | March 14, 2023 at 7:55 am | Reply

yes, so different here and I love both

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restlessjo | March 14, 2023 at 8:29 am | Reply

My husband is an expert, Andrew. I’d better not tell him about today or he’ll celebrate big time!

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- Andrew Petcher | March 14, 2023 at 9:17 am | Reply
  
  I rarely buy crisps any longer, they have become expensive and the packet contents seriously reduced.
  
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  - restlessjo | March 14, 2023 at 9:20 am |
    
    Same here, Andrew. I meant ‘real’ chips 🤣🍿❤️
    
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  - Andrew Petcher | March 14, 2023 at 9:24 am |
    
    We had a ‘chippy tea’ last night. Good value at £7.70 for a large haddock, large ‘real’ chips and a bag of scraps. More than enough for two.
    
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  - restlessjo | March 14, 2023 at 9:46 am |
    
    👍💕
    
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wetanddustyroads | March 14, 2023 at 8:52 am | Reply

We call them “slap chips” here in SA. Apparently similar to French fries, but thicker (much thicker) and fried for longer. The first time we went overseas, I’ve ordered “slap chips” at a restaurant and the waiter was very confused 🙂, while I thought it was a very simple request.

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- Andrew Petcher | March 14, 2023 at 9:19 am | Reply
  
  Never heard that, thanks for adding this important piece of information.
  
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derrickjknight | March 14, 2023 at 11:17 am | Reply

I was 12 in 1954 and had never seen a banana. I still don’t rate them. I’m with your Dad on sandwiches. We have a nearby pub which served chips with steak and kidney pudding and gravy. I loved it. Now it has been taken over by a chain which is sad on a number of counts

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- Andrew Petcher | March 14, 2023 at 11:34 am | Reply
  
  I just don’t get bananas, horrible things.
  Shame about the pub and change of menu. Sometimes I think that we don’t celebrate English classics as much as they deserve to be.
  
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Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter | March 14, 2023 at 8:13 pm | Reply

I can get behind a celebration of either kind!

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- Andrew Petcher | March 15, 2023 at 11:32 am | Reply
  
  Me too.
  
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Klausbernd | March 16, 2023 at 12:48 pm | Reply

HGi Andrew,
we sometime love French fries with a steak. But we don’t eat them often because we want to stay slim.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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- Andrew Petcher | March 16, 2023 at 1:49 pm | Reply
  
  Good advice. Little and often perhaps?
  
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