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
World Cup of Crisps World Cup of Crisps The World Cup of Crisps is an unofficial national competition that takes place every four years on the social media network Twitter to determine the United Kingdom's favourite brand and flavour of crisps. The competition was created, organised and hosted by TV host Richard Osman, and the inaugural competition took place in February and March 2012. The World Cup of Crisps was originally conceived on social media by Osman in January 2012, and took place following a break in filming of Osman's TV gameshow "Pointless." The inaugural edition had 32 types of crisp, with eight group