crisps

Bagged pub snack

Crisps is the British term for what Americans call potato chips—thin slices of potato fried until crisp and salted or flavored: a packet of crisps, cheese and onion crisps.

The word also serves as the plural of crisp in its other senses, or as the verb form meaning to make something crispy: The bacon crisps in the pan.

production

potato

Edible underground tuber

oil · golden · batch · factory · seasoning · blanching · cooling · packaging · quality control · extruded

snacking

packet

Small sealed container

nibbles · party · gameday · picnic · lunchbox · treat · convenience · vending machine · multipack · grab-and-go

texture

crunchy

Breaking with sound

brittle · light · thin · airy · delicate · flaky · shatter · breakable · rustle · crumbled

brands

Lay's

Potato chip brand

Utz · Terra

flavor

salted

Treated with sodium chloride

cheese · paprika · prawn cocktail · pickled onion · wasabi · chili · lime · ranch · jalapeño · spicy

variants

tortilla

Thin unleavened Mexican bread

  • plantainStarchy banana for cooking
  • cassavaStarchy tropical root vegetable
  • taroEdible tropical corm

beetroot · parsnip · sweet potato · kale · lentil · chickpea · rice · corn · multigrain · veggie

Categories
Opposites
texture

crispsmush

Soft, thick mass

porridge · mashed potatoes · pudding · soft food · soggy food

SNACK FOOD CATEGORY (British context)

crispsfresh fruit

carrot sticks · celery · health foods · whole foods

potato preparation method

crispsmashed potatoes

Pulverized cooked tubers

boiled potatoes · baked potato · chips · fries · potato soup

Phrases
Family

crisp, crispy, crispness, crisped, crisply, crisping, crispest

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G