Culture of the United Kingdom fried rice, chips and curry sauce). The earliest recipe for the crisp ("potato chip" in North America) is in English food writer William Kitchiner's 1822 cookbook "The Cook's Oracle". In 1920, Frank Smith of The Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd packaged a twist of salt with his crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were sold around London. In the 1950s, Irish crisps company Tayto developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture, producing the first seasoned crisps: Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar. The crisp market in the UK is dominated by Walkers, which holds 56 per cent of
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011. First broadcast on BBC Two, it starred Ralf Little, Will Mellor, Natalie Casey, Sheridan Smith, Kathryn Drysdale, and Luke Gell. Created and written by Susan Nickson, it was set in the northwest England town of Runcorn, and originally revolved around the lives of five twenty-somethings. Little departed after the sixth series finished airing, with Smith and Drysdale leaving following the airing of the eighth series. The ninth and