chips / crisps

Potato chips are just fine, but they've got nothing on fresh tortilla chips with salsa.

theres no contest here

Potato for variety/novelty
Corn for quality

this neednt but will get political very quickly but like capitalism the yanks will insist that because they do a magnificent thing badly that it cannot exist well anywhere

crisp sandwich y
tortilla chip sandwich n

prosecution rests

it ought to be potato crisps, on paper. But crisps aren't eaten on paper - they are eaten in bed.

Potato. This seems like a question that need not even be asked.

xp I ate a packet of Hula Hoops in bed last night

Thought this was going to be a poll on flavours.

Thought this was going to be a poll on flavours.

Corn

Corn, potato chips just make me wish they were fries.

chips are fries

look we mustnt make it political tho

haa

this poll has been stuck in my head for months for reasons i know not. potato chips can eat it ftr, corn all the way.

i'm sure we have blue corn varieties overseas? i eat a lot of those.

I’m a corn fiend who is still seething about paying £11.25 at a pub in Cambridge last week for “homemade nachos” that turned out to have been homemade from wheat tortillas ffs but I have to listen to my heart on this, it’s potato

If we are expanding the definition to include all crunchy maize-based snacks (your monster munch, your frazzles) that might tip it the other way idk

look we all want to bring Scampi Fries into it

"(your monster munch, your frazzles)"

your dingwattles and your flopsies.

you not knowing wtf Monster Munch are is a serious trade and cultural deficit, we need to tariff the fuck on those Cheetos!

your bungles and your farties.

tbf American TV shows are full of references to incomprehensible foodstuffs

gtfoh

i totally buy these. we do have 50 states worth of potato and corn products. even with that superabundance i would buy all the brit snaks if i saw them at the loc-y sup-y. or whatever you call a grocery store.

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Freshly made tortilla chips from a Mexican restaurant are really where it's at, but I do love the Walkers prawn cocktail variety which fortunately an English-style pub near me sells.

Love both, but had a bag of these today so it’s an easy vote for (potato) crisps.

https://www.growwild.co.uk/products/brown-bag-crisps-oak-smoked-chilli

A couple of places near us sell Red Hot Blues which are basically blue corn doritos dusted with a little bit of spicy seasoning, and we love them, but cape cod / zapp’s / kettle brand take the win for me.

A bag of zapp’s with a deli sub sandwich and a pickle is almost the ideal (not particularly healthy) lunch

Potato chips are boring and insubstantial imo

Oh wait I like those Hawaiian ones. And TIM’s CASCADE chips, the hot and spicy ones

corn for plain, but certain potato chip flavors are better (all-dressed)

i like zapps chips. especially the voodoo chips and the spicy cajun crawtator ones.

they just make me want etoufe

I’ve never seen or eaten corn crisps but they don’t seem to be in the same genus as the other three

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99% of the time my answer is corn and I voted corn but last week I was craving Ruffles and french onion dip and they hit the spot

i enjoyed these last week. in general, i'm trying to ignore the chip aisle. i'm trying to avoid a lot of aisles. pretty soon i will just be shopping in one aisle. the *oh noes i old don't die* aisle.

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this neednt but will get political very quickly but like capitalism the yanks will insist that because they do a magnificent thing badly that it cannot exist well anywhere

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Chicago heads know what's up

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corn curlies, wheat whippies, peanut pippies and potato poopies

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Dick van Dyke is on record as eating Toot Sweets so I take what he says with a pinch of salt

He’s like 100 now so they can’t be that bad

sounds nice

brets crisps are another level for me

aiui UK potato crisps are little more than delivery systems for a wide variety of flavored adulterations; the potato component could just as easily be a communion wafer and produce the same eating experience. whereas an American tortilla chip consisting only of masa, oil and salt can stand alone and still be enjoyed.

I think that’s correct, which is not a slight on UK achievements in potato chip/crisp flavoring

Plain salted crisps are pretty popular in the uk.

Ruffles and french onion dip

one very special night i will pay my respects to this classic from my childhood

red hot blues are my tortilla chip crack cocaine. my local supermarket stopped selling them a few months ago. the label was still affixed to the shelf with a big gap above it for weeks and weeks, leaving me with false hopes for a restock and a not insignificant little sting every time i went grocery shopping.

Plain salted crisps are pretty popular in the uk.

Love them.

Wrong as hell

related question: do “Irish Nachos” exist anywhere in Europe

i never use dips. am i a dip? i have never bought a dip in my life. other than salsa. which i only use with tortilla chips.

wait i am drinking birch beer right now because my father taught me to love birch beer when i was a small boy but do britishers drink birch beer? maybe that's a dumb question. wait do you have birch trees? i need to buy some birch syrup. i've never tried it!

Xp to sic - Cafe Umbria does a sweet cream gelato that is basically unflavored ice cream. Cream, milk, sugar.

i've been known to dip. honestly hummus is my fav.

would just like to add that we're talking about eating chips / crisps here, we're all stars

Corn gets my vote. Nachos, chilaquiles, dipped in guacamole or salsa, eaten plain - freshly made, packaged, or Fritos. I will choose them over potato chips most days.

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when i get bummed i can't just embed an image like i used to, i eat more corn chips.

I have never understood Ready Salted crisps.

I saw a video clip on instagram this week which purported to be from 1981 and had people from I think Newcastle-Upon-Tyne trying new flavours of crisps like prawn cocktail and pickled onion - they weren't into it tbh but also like - that can't have been 1981 right? I vaguely remember 1981 and we had all those crisps already. I remember my mum writing a complaint letter to Hedgehog crisps because she found a metal washer in a packet of crisps and they sent us a whole box of them. that was probably about 1982 tbf

1981: Are CRISP Flavours OUT OF CONTROL? | That's Life! | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

Not so long ago, a little sachet of salt was about as flavoursome as things got for the humble potato crisp, but in recent years things have changed. Crisps are now available in all manner of "exotic" flavours - smokey bacon, prawn cocktail, pickled onion, roast chicken... the choice is overwhelming.

That's Life! sent Paul Heiney out to meet members of the public, armed with some of the latest crisp flavours. Is the public's palette sufficiently sophisticated to identify any of these extraordinary new crisp concoctions?

Clip taken from That's Life!, originally broadcast on BBC One, Sunday 15 March, 1981.

while i love a fresh corn tortilla chip (and a frito tbrr), there is a dish which some vietnamese restaurants here in the US call beef with fried potato, and the places that make it with potato chips (crisps) rather than french fries (chips) -- i mean, there's few things as good as that. plus i just love a good jalapeno cheddar kettle chip with my sandwich

Nobody has answered my question.

I've googled it and apparently this means nachos but with crisps instead of tortilla chips. so the answer is obviously no, we barely have any Mexican food in Europe, let alone bastardised US adaptations of it. I have never even seen crisps laid out on a plate in an organised way, either they are in a packet or if you're fancy a bowl.

No but “loaded fries” are everywhere & kinda suck

I'm too old and boringly diet conscious for crisps these days, but still get them in for my son. This week I got some McCoys "EPIC EATS" variety in. The flavour is GRILLED AMERICAN CHEESE. Not Dutch cheese or French cheese, as everyone in the free world knows - American grilled cheese is the best goddam cheese in the world obv

"loaded fries" another classic in the modern genre of "making finger food impossible to eat with your fingers"

see also: burgers so stupidly overconstructed that they fall to pieces on one bite

loaded fries is like cheesy chips but it costs £12

The "loaded fries" at Cambridge United are lukewarm French fries with a handful of grated cheddar straight from the fridge which never has a chance of melting.

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these are a good side with some curry/chilli. About as fancy as fries can go without ruining themselves imo.

I made some fucking incredible potato wedges today. Potatoes are sacred vegetables really. I'd worship a potato deity.

OTM

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Chips def way more versatile as Jaq pointed out, and someone else also mentioned they are great with hummus. Something to be said for Truffle Flavored Chips from France though

You don't eat crisps with dips ffs.

xp these sound yum. Farmfoods had these on offer last year at a stupid price and I got 10 packets as knew they wouldn’t stay in stock.

https://www.enchanted-earth.com/rubio---extraordinas-vegan-crisps-roasted-chicken--lemon-flavour-26290-p.asp

"I'd worship a potato deity."

Same here! And my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, the former mayor of Limerick, would smile upon me. Wait, I take it back. I don't even know if there were potatoes when he was around...

i've been known to dip. honestly hummus is my fav.

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Yeah. I mean ngl lately I'm becoming militant in my preference for tahini sauce over humus, but not when it comes to dipping chips. for sure one of my favorite summer meals is tortilla chips with a little bowl of hummus and another little bowl of Andalusian gazpacho, both for dipping.

idk where I stand on potato vs. corn. I think Darragh is basically right (about corn chips from the USA, not capitalism) and I'd rate restaurant or homemade tortilla chips above the bougiest kettle crisp on earth... but def potato chips over commercial corn chips from the supermarket, which is what you get here most of the time. I also have an embarrassing fondness for the 'mystery texture' varieties like hot fries/munchos/monster much/hoops

tortilla and potato chips is like Mandarin and Cantonese, people think of them as one thing but they are two different things entirely and no sane person would force anyone to choose between them

some you want the straight up yellow bag Lay's Potato Chips, sometimes you want Spicy Nacho Doritos, sometimes you want Habanero kettle chips, sometimes you want thick, unsalted tortilla chips to make amazing nachos

I think Darragh is basically right (about corn chips from the USA, not capitalism)

He was talking about potato crisps.

this is a dumb "reward-a-drunk" poll

potato, without a doubt
calz what is your wedges recipe? i make them all the time for my kids but they're pretty basic.

for sure one of my favorite summer meals is tortilla chips with a little bowl of hummus and another little bowl of Andalusian gazpacho, both for dipping.

girl that sounds amazing

xp

I parboil the wedges for 4 mins from rolling boil or longer if they are biggies in heavily salted water. Then dip them in a bowl of light olive oil mixed with Cayenne/Smoked Paprika/Cumin/Turmeric. Then 14 mins in the air fryer and onto a tray to be warmed up again in the oven, close to when whatever else I'm cooking is ready. It's probably unhealthy but I heard some sous chef on yt saying the key to good mashed potatoes is going heavy with the salt during the boiling, and I have been applying this to wedges as well.

I missed out the dusting with flour after the parboil bit

i just cut up potatoes into wedges and put olive oil, salt, pepper on them and throw them in the oven at 400 until they are browned on the outside and soft on the inside. i mean they are usually done when they are brown on top. easy peasy. sometimes a little cayenne and paprika sprinkled on top.

i never really buy frozen french fries anymore. or "icy wicy chips" as they are known in the u.k.

Oven chips in fact.

Oven chips in fact.

Oops

i did some checking. my Gx10 grandfather who was the mayor of Limerick - and hated in Limerick because he was Irish and a Henry the 8th's stooge - never tasted a potato! they weren't there yet. i'm pre-spud Irish.

some you want the straight up yellow bag Lay's Potato Chips, sometimes you want Spicy Nacho Doritos, sometimes you want Habanero kettle chips, sometimes you want thick, unsalted tortilla chips to make amazing nachos

(sigh) undeniable/otm/truth bomb right there. excuse me while I go hang my head in shame plz

He was talking about potato crisps.

whaaaaat??! No, that's wrong.

xp "Taste's very strange!"

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there's these local tortilla chips that are flavored with soy sauce and yes that sounds weird but they're pretty darn awesome

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow, landslide