Potato chips, or crisps, are thin slices of potato that have been either deep fried or baked until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or appetizer. The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including herbs, spices, cheeses, other natural flavors, artificial flavors, and additives.
Pringles is an American brand of stackable potato-based chips. Originally sold by Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1968 and marketed as "Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips", the brand was sold in 2012 to the current owners, Kellogg's.
Matutano is a producer and distributor of snacks and potato chips with headquarters in Barcelona, operating the markets of Spain and Portugal. The company was founded in 1965 by Luis Matutano Jover, and since 1971 is part of multinational Frito Lay.
Chips most commonly refers to:
Ruffles is a brand of ruffled (crinkle-cut) potato chips. The Frito Company acquired the rights to Ruffles brand potato chips in 1958 from its creator, Bernhardt Stahmer, who had adopted the trademark in or around 1948. and later merged with H.W. Lay & Co. in 1961.
Lay's is a brand of potato chip varieties, as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in the United States. It has also been called Frito-Lay with Fritos. Lay's has been owned by PepsiCo through Frito-Lay since 1965.
The Smith's Snackfood Company is a British-Australian manufacturing company best known for its crisps. Founded by Frank Smith and Jim Viney in the United Kingdom in 1920, the company packaged a twist of salt with its crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were sold around London. After establishing the product in the UK, Smith set up the company in Australia in 1932. It is owned by the American multinational corporation, PepsiCo. The company produces and markets various snack foods. Smith's Snackvend Stand is the branch of the company that operates vending machines.
A fish and chip shop is a form of a fast food restaurant that specialises in selling fish and chips. Usually, fish and chip shops provide takeaway service, although some have seating facilities. Variations on the name include fish bar, fisheries in Yorkshire, fish shop and chip shop. In the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, they are colloquially known as a chippy or fishy, while in the rest of Ireland and the Aberdeen area, they are known as chippers. Fish and chip shops may also sell other foods, including variations on their core offering such as battered sausage and burgers, to regional cuisine such as Indian or Chinese food.
Cape Cod is a peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts.
A potato, Solanum tuberosum, is a tuberous food crop grown throughout the world.
Hostess is a brand of potato chips that was the leading brand in Canada for many years after its creation in 1935. It fended off any attempt to displace it from its commanding position, and retained its #1 position into the 1980s, even in the face of increased competition from US-based companies entering the Canadian market. It merged with US-based Lay's in 1988.
Crinkle-cutting is slicing that leaves a corrugated surface.
Frito-Lay is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips, Lay's and Ruffles potato chips, Rold Gold pretzels, and Walkers potato crisps. Each brand generated annual worldwide sales over $1 billion in 2009.
All-dressed chips are a potato chip flavour popular in Canada.
Frito-Lay Canada, Inc.; formerly the Hostess Frito-Lay Company is a Canadian division of the U.S.-based Frito-Lay owned as a subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets and sells corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips, Lay's and Ruffles potato chips, Smartfood flavored popcorn and Rold Gold pretzels. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, west of Toronto and has four production plants in Cambridge, Ontario; Lévis, Quebec; Kentville, Nova Scotia; and Taber/Lethbridge, Alberta.
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