Crisps or chips?

I was feeling a bit peckish this afternoon and raided my cupboard to see what snacks I had at home. I was a bit surprised by what I found as I had totally forgotten about some of them.

Before I move on, let's have a cultural lesson first. These are packets of crips. Us Brits call them crips, but our cousins across the pond call them chips.

This is what we call chips in England. Hence we have our famous Fish n Chips!

So to summarise,
British crisps = American chips
British chips = Amerian fries

Easy peasy!

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Now, let's take a look to see what I found in my cupboard. Walkers crisp is the most popular brand of crisps in UK. They have over half of the crisps market. This is a 175g large pack of the standard ready salted flavour. I can't remember when I got it, but I think my sister must have bought it over for me when she came out in March. When me family come and visit, I always get them to bring me foodstuff from back home. The best before date for this was over two months ago, but I'm not too fussed with these dates. I've had crips a year after their best before date and they were fine. Ready salted is my second favourite flavour, so now I've found them, I expect they'll vanish very soon.

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I bought this last week because I didn't realise the ready salted packet was hiding away in my cupboard. Although Fish n Chips is our national dish, I've never had fish n chips flavour crisps before. I was very intrigued when I saw them, and have to say quite surprised when I tasted them. It bought a little smile to me face as you can actually taste fish in the crisp. There's also a hint of vinegar as we add salt and vinegar to our fish n chips. I might buy them again when I run out of stock.

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This is Lays Crisps (Chips), the America brand. They're the main foreign brand of crips in Taiwan and they do many local flavours. This is a salted egg flavour. Salted egg flavour snacks have become a hit in Asia in recent years. This is a limited version, that's probably why I bought them..... but I can't remember when. I don't think it would have been that long ago because their best before date is the end of September. I'll get round to them later on.

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Saving the best for the last.

This is my most favourite favourite favourite crisps, Walkers Cheese & Onion flavour. When I went to Japan for holiday last November, my sister flew out from England to join me. I asked her to bring two packets for me. That's two big packet, and each packet has 6 smaller 25g packets. This is my very last packet, and I've been saving it for a special/emergency occassion. Like last year before I got my November stash, I was low on stock. I think it might have been around this time of the year, I had a real shitty day and that's when my precious stock come out. Luckily, things haven't got that bad recently, so I'm still holding onto my last bag even though the best before date was six months ago 😛

Let's hope I don't need to call upon it too soon as I have no one to replenish my stock in the near future.

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