Potato Chips

[purezero]

Why are some of them green? :blink:

And do you eat the green ones?

[teaz0r]

the wasabi flavoured crisps are green.

i love them. they're my favourite.

[Tao]

i only eat chips that are tannish and those you can see through when you hold then up to the sunlight.


don't tell me those green chips are those new "soy" chips that the health freaks eat.

[tapestrybabe]

Are green potato chips poisonous? (http://www.traditionaldegrees.com/straightdope.html)

Just to clarify: green potatoes result from excessive exposure to light, whether natural or artificial. The green itself is chlorophyll, which is not harmful. However, the same process of photosynthesis that produces chlorophyll also produces compounds called glycoalkaloids, such as solanine, that are toxic in large amounts.

In a normal potato plant, the glycoalkaloids are concentrated in the leaves and the sprouts. The story is told that during World War II some refugees broke into an abandoned house and found a quantity of old sprouted potatoes in the basement. The potatoes themselves were too dried out to eat, so the refugees made a stew out of the sprouts--and got incredibly sick as a result. Thus Mom's injunction never to eat the eyes in a potato, eyes, of course, being sprouts as yet unborn.

Green potatoes and green potato chips are to be distinguished from brown potato chips, which are a different matter entirely. Brown potato chips result when potatoes are stored too long at low temperatures, causing them to accumulate excessive sugar. When sugar is present in normal amounts, it combines with amino acids during cooking to produce the potato chip's characteristic yellow-brown color. A chip with too much sugar, on the other hand, takes on a dark brown, almost burned appearance, even though it wasn't in the oven any longer than usual. This phenomenon is commonly but inaccurately known as "caramelization." (True caramelization occurs when water is removed from sugar.)

Brown chips are harmless. Green ones won't kill you in small amounts, but in the words of one authority, "you should not deliberately go around trying to find green potato chips just so you can eat them." Which pretty much kills THAT party idea. Do the sensible thing and stick to ones you know are safe.

--CECIL ADAMS

[purezero]

Ooh. Thank you. *learning*

[tvbdude]

gotta love dorito's :luv:

[moschikat]

mm. . . terra chips are blue and red and brown and orange . . . i haven't seen the green.

[applehead]

i like cape cod's unsalted.

[angelwiththesword]

i have never seen a green potato chip in my life

and since they're wasabi flavored, i want them even less

[sOKaLiBoY]

either the cape cod or pringles salt n vinegar chips are my fav. but you can never go wrong with doritos

[Adaon]

eh, I eat the green ones all the time.....and if I go, then I go with a salty flavored snack as my last meal...at least I die content with a tummy full of chips

[applehead]

i think pringles are wanna be potato chips.

[Emperor_Mike]

I like vegetable chips. You know, the ones made with yam and carrots and other things.

[applehead]

yeah the taro chips are the best.

[Hanuman]

I know what you're talking about, you open up a bag of lays potato chips and you're munching away. You reach in and there's a nice big chip with a green patch on the edge. it looks like moss on the side of an otherwise unblemished tree.

I look at it curiously then wolf it down. By the way I think my favorite chips are NY Deli style chips.

[Fireblade]

Lays are good, but oily.
Pringles are good, but too clean.
I love baked chips. MMmmm Good.

[ism]

Originally posted by applehead@Apr 29 2003, 01:14 PM
i think pringles are wanna be potato chips.
They're technically "potato crisps," mashed potatoes reconstituted into uniform chip shapes... certainly space-efficient.

[Emperor_Mike]

Originally posted by ism@Apr 30 2003, 12:26 PM
They're technically "potato crisps," mashed potatoes reconstituted into uniform chip shapes... certainly space-efficient.
Is that what they are? Uniformly shaped mashed potatoes?

My God! You're right! I never would've thought of that! It's very clever, tidy and efficient. Very clever.