Who cares! I just love eating them! :D

Hey Ruchi, that was quite informative. Its amazing how simple things like this create multi-million $ industry.

@ Manish.. its truly amazing to know that a person of a political fame was the brain behind it.. hehe!

Forget where did it come from, ever wondered where does it go once you put them down your throat? :))

heheheh! well said deepa!

hahahahahaha... that was a good one :))

French fries were invented by the Americans???!!! No way Ruchi!
In fact they were invented here in France (no, I’m not French LOL) as food for the poor and were cooked in big urns by the river Seine in the evening. Many French people don’t know this and are surprised (and not necessarily proud) to learn that what they critisise as American junk food was created by themselves....(they don’t like admittin that they have many poor people either, but that’s another story...)
Have fun!!
Michael C

@ Michael.. Thanks for sharing such an interesting info with us.
the blame-game is always fun to play till the time your lie opposite the faulty shade of the distinguishing line... :)

Well the article does say ”Jefferson had come across them (fried potatoes) while he was in Paris”... I guess what the Americans did was make it thin and crisp and called it ”French Fries” and successfully created junk food industry :)

Manish.. you were really smart to comprehend Michael’s comment and come to an interesting conclusion! :)
Cheers!

Thanks Ruchi.. and thanks to Michael, we got to know the background of the origin of chips that was not given in the article.
Cheers! and stay away from chips :)

I had no idea!!! Ican’t say I lost sleep over not knowing, but as a trivia buff, I thank you!!!

Oscar, that was indeed a witty remark..
i believe such things constitute good-to-know information.. imagine a situation when you’re munching these chips with the gurl-of-ur-dreams and yu happen to tell her something as interesting as this..? LOL.. too hypothetical but yu neva know..

Ruchi,
Let me share a few more trivia facts with you... not potato chip related..

Did you know poocupines float in water?
and
There are more donkey related deaths per year than plane crash deaths... :)

hahaha!
that was really funny..
thanks for sharing this info.. keep coming back with such trivial facts..
:)

I will keep you posted with more brain candy. Our trivia loving types have to stick together.

yeah.. sure :)

Ruchi,all potato chips are not vegetarian.

Ruchi,all potato chips are not vegetarian.

Do you mean to say all ’couch potatoes’ are not vegetarian??

I mean I’m really confused - maybe I need some French Fries!

Hey Oscar,

This ones for you;

A person burns more calories sleeping than he does watching television.

”Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters ”mt”.

An since you triggered the thing, I’m thinking of writing a dedicated article on trivial facts. ;)

Damn... I thought I was safe, guess I better try to get some more zzzzzz...English trivia.. okay I will match you and RAISE the stakes... What is the only word in the english language with 3 double letters in a row?
give up???? BOOKKEEPER...

Keep it up guys....this is getting interesting. Didn’t know that the potato chips can raise so many trivial facts...:)

Hey aneez.. thnks for dropping by and make ur value additions to this thread :)

not trivia Deepa, BRAIN CANDY...GEEEEZ...trivia sounds so, uh...trivial...

Would love to feed on such brain candies......zero calories n more healthier :)

Well hang on tight.. We’ll have to see if Aneez is going to up the stakes again, or if he’s going to fold..We may just have a Mexican stand off, and if that’s the case, 0 calorie brain candy’s gonna fly!:)

Hey Oscar

Here you are;

Gimme a word in the English language that rhymes with ”month”, ”orange”, ”silver” or ”purple”.

Sup? No way, your intelligent neighbour won’t help you either- cuz there’s no such words!

:D

Next,

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ”uncopyrightable”.

By the way, do you know whats the term for ’having a fear of long words’?

Its called Hippopotomonstroses­quippedaliophobia

Scary, isn’t it??

Anyway, lets change the course.....

Catch another rare one, I bet you never bothered to notice that;

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Beat me, Oscar.

I am enjoying this more than munching on my chips LOL....

I am loving it too.. like Deepa mentioned, neva thot this newlink would take the course of such discussion..

Thanks everybody for ur valuable inputs.. :)

Wanna pull out the big guns Aneez, ok..I’ll play your game, my friend..Returning to the English language:


Subbookkeeping is the only word in the english language with four consecutive pairs of letters.


The only word in the English language with four vowels in a row is ”queuing”.

The root word ”queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

”One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

”oolgy” is the shortest word known in ”olgy, to study” It is the study of eggs.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.. uses every letter in the english alphabet.

The word: lethologica, defines the state of not being able to remember the word you want..I suffer from lethologica quite ofton while writing my stories for IB.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

last but not least....
A pregnant goldfish is called a TWERP.

GAME ON ANEEZ:)

Aneez... Do you forfeit??? Times ticking. Tick Tick Tick Tock

Hey Ruchi, do you have any idea what your potato chips have done?
Just go and see our friend Aneez’s blog... there is a full fledged war on trivia happening there and all are invited to join it...
Guess this is one more trivia we can add about potato chips :)