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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Some of the UK ~~potato chip~~ crisp flavors I'm learning about are really freakin' weird to someone who comes from the land that invented them.

Prawn cocktail? Beef? Pickled onion?

And then there's this...

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

prawn cocktail fucking slaps though

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

For all I know, it is the greatest potato chip flavor in the world. America's range of flavors is surprisingly limited.

[-] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

crisps probably don't come from the US on the crisps wikipedia page in the history section it says

The earliest known recipe for something similar to today's potato chips is in the English cook William Kitchiner's book The Cook's Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. The 1822 edition's recipe for "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" reads "peel large potatoes... cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping".

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Early recipes for potato chips in the US are found in Mary Randolph's Virginia House-Wife (1824) and in N.K.M. Lee's Cook's Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.

A legend associates the creation of potato chips with Saratoga Springs, New York, decades later than the first recorded recipe.

I skipped a bit with another early recorded version that was also from a british book but that's it

I checked the book and it doesn't claim to have invented it it just presents it with all the other recipes but that could just be the style of cookbooks at the time I dunno I'm not a historian but eh proof enough that there's no evidence of them being american atleast and some evidence they're maybe british

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, the Saratoga Springs story was what I had heard.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

You want weird? We also have fish flavored crisps.

And they really do taste like scampi.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mentioned prawn cocktail, but this is also weird for sure. I don't understand this one at all considering scampi is supposed to have a kind of subtle flavor to it, or at least in my experience, whereas potato chips are generally the opposite.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

They sound fucking delicious. Mackie's ice cream is top tier too.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not saying they're bad. Just weird.

I haven't tried them.

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