Top Chip Facts
• A quarter of all the potatoes that are grown in Britain are made into chips – that’s around 1.5 million tonnes each year
• It would take an area the size of 45,000 Wembley Stadium football pitches to grow all the potatoes needed for the chips eaten in Great Britain each year
• Just over 10% of the British potato crop is needed to supply our 10,500 chip shops – that’s about 422,600 tonnes
• Laid end to end, all the British potatoes that are turned into chips every year would stretch around the world a staggering 76 times
• Fish suppers remain the nation’s favourite takeaway meal, outselling Indian food at a rate of 2:1
• Eight out of 10 UK households buy frozen oven chips each year
• On average 16 medium-sized potatoes go into making a 1kg bag of oven chips
• Rumour has it that Kate and Wills will be serving fish and chips to their regal guests at their wedding next year. Other celeb chip lovers who have dished up chips to their wedding guests are rumoured to include; Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran, Wayne Rooney and Coleen Mcloughlin, Myleene Klass and Graham Quinn, John Terry and Toni Poole and Dave Gardner and Davinia Taylor, to name but a few!
