Yes, i have a twisted sense of humour

Funniest. News item. Ever.

What on earth are they? Well. Crips are the new - half chip, half crisp - hot potato snack which have been patented by Carl Larden, a chef from Radcliffe on Trent.

There is also an official website for the Crips crisps: Crip Snacks...

(hmmm... was Dr Moreau involved in this? And, Kay, maybe these are the mysterious disabled badger holders? And that fox-man at the upper right kind of looks like he has little arms like Mat Fraser...)

Some of the quotes from the BBC article are just utterly hilarious:

I have had to work with some very clever engineers to perfect the machinery needed to produce crips. Out of 500 varieties of potatoes there are only four or five that will give you the perfect crips.

a portion of crips takes just 30 seconds to cook

and, best of all, the question:

How long has it taken to get crips up and running?

And then there's this image from the contact page of their website:



Seriously... i can't believe that they are totally unaware of the meaning of the word - it does actually raise issues about reclaimed language, if a term that has been reclaimed as an identity gets "invented" entirely independently for something completely unrelated, with the "inventor" of the "new" term not even knowing about its existing meaning.

Maybe Crip Chick or Wheelchair Dancer (cripwheels.blogspot.com) need to get in touch with them...