History and Influence of Potato Chips

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Ask yourself a question, what is the most popular food in the world? Probably, the first of what you will think about is round crisp pizza, or maybe you will try more simply and guess it could be pasta and lasagna, or will travel with your mind to the East and think of sushi and roasted rice, or will move to something sweet like donuts, ice cream and chocolate. There are as many answers as people on our beautiful planet. Nowadays, the variety of food we can choose from can satisfy every single taste. Almost every country has its own cuisine which contains some delicious dishes that make it unique. However, how do specialists, who create that food ratings, process the data they gathered? In order to make an authentic results, I think, they should ask all people around the world without any exception. That is really hard to achieve, but we can think about popular food in some other way which considers that the word popular doesn’t always mean the best. This is where potato chips take its winning place. They became very widespread around the world due to its huge variety of addictive crisp tastes, relatively cheap prices and simplicity of consuming. We can buy potato chips in every supermarket and grocery store, and even in non-shopping places like colleges and work offices where it’s possible to get a pack of tasty crisp chips using automatic vending machines. There is no reason to speak about their popularity in USA, and the situation on other four continents is alike. In Europe without any doubt they are loved as much as in USA. In Australia they are even more popular than biscuits. In South America and Asia potato chips are also widespread snacks with a specific tastes to suit the population. Around the world, people eat potato c...

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