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Featured in Vice magazine

Mar 12, 2020 | News, Potatoes

I shared my deep knowledge of the chip butty with Sam Hancock for Vice magazine. You can read the article, A Brief History of the Humble Chip Butty, online at:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5xma4/a-brief-history-of-the-humble-chip-butty

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‘In June 2005, representatives from the British Potato Council demonstrated outside the offices of Oxford University Press and in London’s Parliament Square, campaigning for the use of the word ‘couch slouch’ instead of ‘couch potato’, which they claimed was insulting to potatoes.’

— Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (2008)
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