A sign in my local chip shop has confused me

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So, had a cheeky fish supper tonight.

Standing in the queue I read the various signs, and apparently their chips are made from 100 percent potato.

Seriously, am I naive or are chips ever made from anything but potato?

Many fish and chip shops coat chips in flour (to make them very crispy) and seasonings, which I guess would make them 99% potato.

Aren’t some places starting to coat chips in flour or a light batter? Not entirely sure why, as chips are perfectly good without all that.

Lots of chips have a coating.

Well who knew?

Many fish and chip shops coat chips in flour (to make them very crispy)
(And this would be a problem for people with coeliac disease or allergies.)

I had battered chips the other day. They were delicious. Though quite different to normal chips.

McCain Home Chips, for example, are 92% potato, 4% batter and 4% sunflower oil.

Some frozen chips have dextrose (ie sugar) on them - all Sainsburys own brand do now so I have to make a trip to Lidl for chips.

Well who knew?

People who can't eat gluten unfortunately. Most oven chips have flour coating on them too. (Morrison's do some nice ones without) In face once you start looking, there's wheat (and sugar) in the strangest things.

I suspect it might also a bit of a joke in relation to recent food scandals e.g this week the news about some meat products containing traces of other animals

I've never eaten cheeky fish

it comes to something, when you have to work on the assumption, that chips have crap added!!

McDonald's fries in the UK have 5 ingredients, the USA version has 19 ingredients!!

But wouldn't there also be oil?

And salt?

Some chips are "formed" of potato (and quite possibly other ingredients) while traditional chips are cut straight from a potato and then deep fried. As they should be.

I’ve fallen foul of McCain Home Chips before. Couldn’t work out why I was in so much pain when I’d only had a couple of DH’s chips and then I read the ingredients.
I don’t trust chip shop ones either.

Chips in batter? Where does this happen? I need to relocate there.

I think it must be a joke. They're never 100% potato as they're cooked in oil.

I suspect it might also a bit of a joke in relation to recent food scandals e.g this week the news about some meat products containing traces of other animals

That was my thought too.

What makes a fish super cheeky?

Ah yes, gluten free chips. I saw, I kid you not, PG Tips now do "PG Tips Dairy Free" - so all PG Tips is actually dairy free but this one is specially blended to work well with dairy free milks.

In Scotland you get fritters which is basically chips in batter jesusinthecabbagevan

the USA version has 19 ingredients
I've got a feeling that some of those ingredients might be banned in the EU.

I saw an advert for gluten free shampoo why would anybody need gluten free shampoo

I think frozen chips often have a flour or cornflour coating to stop them clumping together, so chip shops preparing their own chips are telling the customers that.