Bismarck.Josiahfk said:
»My random thought; Why to Europeans think their name for things is automatically the right name? I say go by the name the creator of the item called it.
The man that created Potato chips didn't call them crisps. Come on people lol sure, call them whatever you want but don't think that whatever name you come up with is the absolute truth.
the whole chips/crisp thing actualy spurrd from a leagal battle here in the states
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They were originally known as "Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips", but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato "chip". The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975, they ruled Pringles could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the following phrase: "potato chips made from dried potatoes".[17] Faced with such an unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually opted to rename their product potato "crisps" instead of chips. However, this later led to other issues in the United Kingdom, where the term potato "crisps" refers to the product Americans call potato "chips".[15]
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