Do you call it a bag of crisps or a packet of crisps

[TheChippendenSpook]

I call it a packet. To me, a bag is something that you put things in to carry around.

Crisps come in a packet, all ready to eat and nicely sealed, ready for you to open.

It doesn't matter but I'm bored and was just wondering how many people call it a bag or a packet.

A poke?! That’s a new one on me, I quite like it!!
But I’m in the SE and I call it a packet. Actually I prefer to call it half a packet and then I can have 2…

It annoys me when people drop the end 's' - 'A packet of crisp'. I always envison just one huge crisp in a packet.

Some people even drop both end letters and say 'A bag/packet of crisssss'.

Noooo a poke is for crisps, chips, and other small packets of food (but not all small packs of food). The rules are complicated 🤣

Packet for the small one person size, bag for the big sharing size.

Birmingham and I say bag

Bag of chips

I sounds a bit crass now that I type it out 😂

But we really only get the bigger bags 120g. I would call the small ones (I have never felt the need to buy those), a packet.

Either. Both.

One if those things I’ve never really thought about before. However, I think I use both, but perhaps err towards bag.

I say bag of crisps and from the south of England. My Irish parents say package

Packet - South London

I use packet for the small single serve packs that you see in convenience stores or as part of a meal deal, but the larger format ones I call bags. So I will have a packet of crisps with a sandwich, but buy a bag of crisps to have with dips :)

Packet

I've always said a packet of crisps

Very Northern, bag or pack

I'm eating a packet of crisps right now!

West Yorkshire and I say packet

Pack or bag, don’t think I’ve ever said packet - sound too formal!

Packed. Poke is an ice cream where I am.

Packet - SW

I say both interchangeably.

Neither, we just call them crip as in 'Do you want crip?'

Bag. Packet of crisps sounds very odd.

Neither, because we never buy the individual small packets. We buy a large bag, and then serve them in a smaller bowl, so we ask, "Would you like some crisps?" when offering them. Fascinated by "poke" though! Reddit suggests that "packet" is British English and "bag" is American English, but that is clearly not true given the differing responses to this thread!

Packet

Packet south east