Favourite Crisp Flavours

[Beirut]

Crisps are called crisps because they are crisp.

Potato chips are called chips because they're chipped potatoes, and properly made, are deep and soft with a crunchy exterior.

Potato chips, contrary to any and all Imperial British suggestions, are not deep and soft with a crunchy exterior; they are very thin, very crunchy and come in bags with the words "Potato Chips" written across the front.

Exhibit A:


Crisps, if one is to apply colloquial yet anachronistic across-the-pond terminology, are crackers.

There is one and only one type of potato chip - BBQ!

All else are but feminizations of a masculine spudacious endeavor.

[The Stranger]

i read that chips/crisps were made by an indian cook who had an english customer whining about the size of his patotoes... so the cook got angrty and chopped the patotoes so thin and fried them that they all got crispy....

some say he was my ancestor... so i guess... I OWN ALL CHIPS/CRISPS COMPANIES!!!!

[Mikeus Caesar]

Salt and vinegar ftw.

And it's crisps, not 'potato chips'. Banquo's explanation hit the nail on the head.

Crisps and chips are entirely different things.