# Chips are a valid sandwich condiment! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [June 19, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793 "2023-06-19T21:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/21 "2023-06-20T12:03:30Z")
I’ve tried the potato-chips-in-a-sandwich thing before and it didn’t blow my mind. If I’m eating a sandwich, I don’t think I’ve ever thought: “You know what this needs? More starch and a shit ton of sodium.” I can get crunchiness from other ingredients, if necessary. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/22 "2023-06-20T12:20:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > May I introduce you to the Primanti sandwich? I eat one Primanti sandwich each year, a capicola and egg. The day before our flight to St Martin we drive down to the La Quinta near the airport and check in. We walk next door to Primanti’s and start vacation. Except for COVID year, we’ve done this once a year 18 times in a row. I always think of Guinistasia when I’m there, since she loved Primanti’s. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/23 "2023-06-20T14:26:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Absolutely agree with this. I like it. Yup. OP is 100% correct. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/24 "2023-06-20T15:52:51Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Yup. OP is 100% correct. I issue a doppleganger challenge! On the SDMB, no one is ever 100% correct, at most we go “Yeah, that’s the way I’d do it but [make 1+ minor/major changes]”. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/25 "2023-06-20T15:55:34Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > On the SDMB, no one is ever 100% correct You’re totally right! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/26 "2023-06-20T16:03:50Z")
-an Inception-type layered reality swirls around ParallelLines and ShadowFacts, collapsing into a quantum singularity of paradox, threatening to consume the entire board- ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/27 "2023-06-20T16:04:16Z")
This makes no logical sense to me. The chips take up a lot of room that could be use for other, more sensible sandwich ingredients. Also, when you bite a sandwich like that, you’ll inevitably get splinters of chips spewing out of the sandwich, which is in fact a tasteless and childish thing in an adult setting. It’s space inefficient as well as sloppy. When you keep them on the side, you can control exactly how much chip taste you get with each bite of the sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/28 "2023-06-20T21:03:20Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Salt n Vinegar with peanut butter is a culinary treat not to be missed or trifled with Hmmm… I might have to try this. > [@Alessan](#): > > That looks nice - but there’s also a certain purity in the humble pita with falafel and fries. It makes me so sad that there is no local place to get falafel. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/29 "2023-06-20T21:18:34Z")
If it’s good enough for [Cosby Obama](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPMOqF573Fk)… ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/30 "2023-06-20T21:26:41Z")
Harsh. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/31 "2023-06-20T21:39:06Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Whereas i am in favor of the former. Lightly crushed potato chips are a nice contrast to tuna salad, for instance. While French fries are too much like bread for me to want them in the same meal. (And yes, i know that a burger and fries is a common meal, but if it’s a good burger, i may eat it without the bun. Yep. Agreed and I’ve had a Primantis at the original location, as well as fries in schwarmas, and even on sausage in the Cleveland Polish Boy. They all detract, in my opinion, because of the big layer of carbo mush they form. I don’t do potato chips these days really, but on.a Wonder Bread sandwich they’d be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/32 "2023-06-20T21:43:35Z")
The one caveat I’d add to the OP is that you have to put them on right before eating. As in, seconds before you take a bite. Otherwise they get soggy, and soggy potato chips are completely worthless. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/33 "2023-06-20T21:56:08Z")
True. This is why chips on a sandwich probably wouldn’t work in a restaurant setting. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/34 "2023-06-20T22:18:19Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I have the impression that putting chips on a sandwich is something children do. I _used to_ crush up Frito’s and put them on my ham sandwich. > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Now I long for a fried bologna sandwich with potato chips and mayo. 😋 If only I could allow myself. I still eat bologna but only Hebrew National. With mustard and yes- a dab of mayo (which I rarely consume). > [@aceplace57](#): > > Manwich sandwiches were better with a few Fritos in them. > > The indigestion would be overwhelming now. Yeah. sadly I cant eat more than a few Frito’s without my gut telling me that was a mistake. I used to eat them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/35 "2023-06-21T01:05:04Z")
Potato chip salad [https://archive.is/kLffo](https://archive.is/kLffo) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/36 "2023-06-21T01:16:03Z")
Only on a sandwich from a can have I regressed to childish ways. Sloppy Joes, tuna fish, beefaroni all improved with chips pretzels or Fritos. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/37 "2023-06-21T01:31:12Z")
[Here’s an article about sandwiches with chips in them](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/dining/tuna-salad-sandwich-chips.html?unlocked_article_code=qfrTvdXBEPoMdBlxNC_WzyK7uDZOIrVvVyvv2d3eaG7bV_lm-YrANWioJ6zGmQOU7Qy1X_5DHpq2o6OT4P3Xaqgb_EReTd-XVjSpmhnxy_uuLRmGqUnfJ41c6W3YSQ9ymHMD7eUEBvf1TJZALfiYvdh0ISTptGu_BJUSAW9FzqjqbtdKdp_qgJJgK1r2zqEvR_op83jQJdGnlx1nxKB2Jez1xskG4sGOgL9e9IhYlwdYJAk6Pm2vn5f98TKBdZ1UiwGOoBQddfOq0l5j_RVwWBj0GV34vVchziUiy-PJEjmF6DXrpjCY7tu6TfyhryouQcEn918vEenJZe2zZVEzl7kD&smid=url-share) from J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. The actual recipe is paywalled, but the description in the article is probably enough. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/38 "2023-06-21T02:48:34Z")
You can’t put chips on the sandwich because then you never get the ratio right. Get the ratio of tuna to bread correct, take bite, eat as many chips as it takes to balance out. That’s perfection. ---
**Author:** ![Blindmellowjelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindmellowjelly/32/13920_2.png) [@Blindmellowjelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blindmellowjelly)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/39 "2023-06-21T03:27:25Z")
Here’s one- a Mickie D’s Filet O Fish, with extra Tartar Sauce, add a packet of Salt and Vinegar Crisps atop, between the steamed buns. Dip in the North American, special recipe, McDonald’s Heinz ketcup packettes. Bet you didn’t know McDonald’s Heinz Ketchup is differently formulated than store shelf ketchup? The McChippy. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793/40 "2023-06-21T12:40:35Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > True. This is why chips on a sandwich probably wouldn’t work in a restaurant setting. Nah, it just means that they serve you the chips on the side and let you finish the assembly. Which is in fact how most places that serve sandwiches do it, even if they’ve forgotten why they do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chips-are-a-valid-sandwich-condiment/985793.md?page=3)