Related question: Why does Lands’ End have its apostrophe where it does?
Answer is at this page.
You think that is funny. There is a town in Iowa named after Johannes Gutenberg. Guttenberg, Iowa - Wikipedia
Potatoes are pretty healthy, and I’d feel confident assuming much healthier than whatever the other 58% is.
Wheat, corn & rice.
I would personally take potatoes over all of those, but Ii guess YMMV.
I personally don’t care one way or the other.
I mean, they can be part of a healthy diet, but it seems strange to call them “pretty healthy.” They’re just, basically, balls of carbohydrate. Pretty calorie dense too. I am not sure I’ve ever encountered a healthy eating plan that allowed for any significant amount of potato.
Then if chips are crisps in England, what are Pringles in England?
Lord of the manor.
The Wikipedia article gives that as one of several possible origins.
It also addresses this.
Another thing I learned from the Wikipedia article is that SF author Gene Wolfe developed the machine that cooks them.
I had thought that the “Pringle’s” in the name of the product (“Pringle’s New-fangled Potato Chips”) played the same role as, say, “Reese’s” in “Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.” Abbreviating this to “Pringle’s” made it sound like that was a plural noun, with the singular being “Pringle,” as if people started calling an individual peanut butter cup a “Reese.” (The company’s ad campaign, “There’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s,” may have played some role in discouraging this from happening.)