Monday, April 19, 2010

Is Utah in Britain?


As most of you know, and the rest will know in a moment, what we in the U.S. and Japan call potato chips are called potato crisps in Britain since the chips appellation has long been allocated to what we in the U.S. call French fries. (The French, of course, call them pommes frites, which basically sounds like it means fried apples.)

So what would you expect from this bag, which loudly announces that the contents are crisps, but decorates the pack with a photo from Monument Valley, Utah?

And what do they mean by "real salt" -- as opposed to the fake salt that other crisp/chip makes presumably must use? And not only "REAL SALT" but "REDMOND REAL SALT." Is Bill Gates somehow involved? The mind boggles.

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