The secret life of chips
There are some hungers that can only be satisfied by gobbling down a bag of chips, hot from the fryer and dredged with salt and vinegar. So what is it about fluffy starch coated in fat that makes such gluttons of us all? William Leith delves into the mystery of the most addictive finger food known to humanity

For my young American readers (yes, I mean you Robby, Eliot ,and Cameron) these are chips as in "fish and chips".

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