This week is National Chip Week 2012 and to celebrate our love for the humble chip we
are going to give you a ‘Perfect Partner’ chip recipe every day of the week!
Check out our Facebook page for a delicious chip recipe everyday.
Click here for our Chip Week recipes
For the perfect chip why not try our "The Same Every Time" Fluffy Potatoes.
This year the key messages are:
Chips are a great British tradition!
Chips can be enjoyed as part of a healthy balanced diet.
Chips are great value especially when made at home.
A great British Tradition:
- 87% of the population 
chips!
- 1 in 4 British potatoes are turned into chips!
- Over 200 million chip meals are sold in chip shops each year.
Healthy Balance:
- Oven Chips only contain 5% fat.
- A chicken tikka masala, pilau rice and a plain nann contain 20% more calories
than fish and chips.
- Sweet and Sour chicken, egg fried rice and two spring rolls contain 22% more
calories than fish and chips.
- A Doner kebab contains 686 more calories than fish and chips!
Make them at home:
-- This is how we like to prepare our chips.
- Chips are a healthy option when homemade as they make an overall contribution
of just 0.2% to overall sodium intake.
Did you know!
- We have over 1000 chip shops in the United Kingdom!
- Prices vary regionally, as does size however a portion of chips usually reflects the
price of a large white loaf of bread and fish normally falls in line with a pint of lager!
- The record number of chip portions sold in a day at a fish and chip shop was 4,000.
- During the Second World War, chips were one of the few foods that weren’t rationed.
- Chris Verschueren, from Kastel, Belgium holds the world record for the longest French
Fries cooking marathon. He cooked for 83 hours, serving 15,000 portions of chips.
Check out our Facebook page for a delicious chip recipe everyday.
