10 Fun Facts about Potato Chips

Munch on these ten fun potato chip facts on your next snack break to learn everything from advertising tricks to the science behind their addictiveness. 1. Collectively, Americans eat about 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips per year, or about 6.6 pounds per person. 2. Pringles are not potato chips. 3. The sound of crunching adds to the pleasure of eating chips. Snackers who ate chips with headphones on became bored with chips more quickly. 4. The name Doritos means “little golden things“ in Spanish. 5. A Cheeto resembling Harambe the gorilla sold on eBay for $99,900 in February 2017. 6. A man in Ohio suffers from a condition called “auto-brewery syndrome.“ One symptom of this ultra-rare disorder is that his body turns potato chips into alcohol. 7. Roughly 28,000,000 pounds (13,000,000 kg) of chips are eaten during the Super Bowl. 8. Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen