There are a few things that crop up in conversation about the pleasure of eating chips time after time; fish and chips eaten at the seaside, chips in the evening after a few drinks and wrapped chips you take away.
You might carry the wrapped chips home. If you take them home in a car, the car is immediately filled with mouth watering aromas.
At home you start the unwrapping. If the meal is in a paper bag there may be tell tale patches of grease showing on the outside.
You open the sheets of newsprint and a stray chip falls out. How many of you pop that chip straight in your mouth rather than on the plate?
Now we reach the portion of chips; all stuck together after steaming inside the bag. Peeling apart hot chips and sharing them out on plates, occasionally popping another one in the mouth. How's the fish? Is the batter still crisp or has it stuck to the paper?
How is that when we sit down to eat the food off the plate it never quite tastes as good as the chips we just ate straight from the paper as we did the unwrapping?
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