I’ll never forget the day I tasted roast chicken crisps – it changed my life for ever | Adrian Chiles

2026-03-12 - 11:22

Everyone knows the dowdy potato snack, but reading a recent book on them has reignited a personal journey and taken my intake to hitherto unseen levels I’m reading a book about the history of crisps. It’s by Natalie Whittle and it’s called Crunch. Unlike crisps, it’s nourishing – fascinating to learn of the human endeavour, all the science that’s gone into them. But, just like crisps, it’s also comforting – in that it’s good to know I’m not the only one with such strong feelings about them. I once heard a fellow broadcaster denigrated as the kind of presenter who just wanted to do phone-ins about listeners’ favourite crisps. I knew where he was coming from. You could do a phone-in on this subject every day of the week and never run out of contributors. Because surely everyone has their own relationship with crisps, their own personal crisp journey. Continue reading...