Students throughout the land rejoice- it's that time of year when our favourite snack can be shamelessly justified regardless of time, place, or the fact you've already eaten the exact same little morsels 5 times in the space of 3 days...It's National Chip Week!
21-27th February marks this momentous occasion, and this year we can binge particularly excessively due to 2011 being the events 20th anniversary. Praise be to chip Jesus!
The Potato Council's (no, I didn't realise a potato Council even existed until now either) 'Love Chips' campaign may be teetering on the brink of peculiarity with it's choice of ex-X factor contestant Andy Abraham as Spokesperson, but if it gives both this dimmed star and the humble old potato the opportunity to shine, then, in the festive spirit of things, I shall oblige.
Why not inject a little variety into your withered looking leftover potatoes? The BBC's Good Food site offers a whole host of chipper ideas, or alternatively check out my own simple Potatoes Dauphinoise recipe.
On a slightly more ironic note, National Chip Week happens to coincide with National Eating Disorders Week- slightly cruel does't quite describe it. Perhaps the two Organisations should seize this opportunity to defeat a common foe and form some kind of bizarre collaboration?! Food for thought right there.
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