Wikipedia states, “potato chips are thin slices of potato that are deep fried or baked until crispy.” Potato chips are commonly served as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including seasonings, herbs, spices, cheeses, and artificial additives. Crisps, however, refer to many different types of snack products in the UK and Ireland; some made from potato, but may also be made from corn, maize and tapioca. An example of these kinds of crisps is Monster Munch.

In our college composition class we read a piece called, “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch.” Ann Hodgman wrote this piece and in it she analyzed dog food. She figures out what is really in dog food and what it tastes like. She states that one Purina spoke man told her that “poultry by-products consists of necks, intestines, undeveloped eggs and other “carcass remnants,” but not feathers, heads, or feet.” She explained what they look like and how they felt and taste. This drove our class to do our own test day on different foods. Our group did Potato chips using the brand Lays.

Lays is the one of biggest potato chip companies in America. Lays have a bunch of slogans. For example, Happiness is Simple, Simply Made, and Simply Good (2009), That's another reason to smile! and Food for the fun of it! (2007), Lays, get your smile on! (2006-), Lays. Want some? And Betcha can't eat just one (1960s-2006). For me potato chips are not my favorite thing to eat, I could take it or leave it.

We tested Original chips, baked chips, Light chips, and sea salt chips. In my opinion a potato chip is a thin piece of fired potato that is filled of salt and grease. Each packaged had promises they advertised. For example, the sea salt deluxe bag promised thick cuts of potato and the Light Lay’s bag promised it still had great taste. On the bag it still showed a great looking potato chip that looks appealing to eat. The bag gives me all the facts that I want to hear, like its all natural or its reduced fat. The original potato chip and the sea salt potato chips felt greasy and I could feel the salt. Also you could almost see through them. The baked and Light Lay’s chips felt dry and you could not see through them at all. I thought the original and baked chips tasted the best because it had a lot of salt and original potato chips always taste amazing. Light Lay’s tasted like card board and barley had a taste and the sea salt was just too strong, I could not eat a lot of them. They basically all smelled like potatoes and salt, the Light Lay’s wasn’t as strong as the other kinds. As I asked people about what they  think about potato chips and most girls say oh its to fattening and too greasy. Guys love them!

Types of Lays Potato chips	Baked Chips	Original	Sea Salt Deluxe	Light
Rating (1-4)	4	3	2	1
Description	Crispy, Salty not greasy just the right taste	Crunchy, salty, greasy, full of flavor but cant eat to much of  them.	Very strong salty taste. Thick cuts of potato.	Barley any salt, tasteless/cardboard.

   

Each kind of potato chip had their own taste and personally I like the baked chips the best. They have the best taste than any of the other kinds. Not to greasy and they are pretty good for you as well. They have the crunch that stratifies me and they are salty but very good. It only has two grams of fat and 120 calories in 1 oz. Also has two grams of protein. I know my favorite kind after really comparing each