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This is six minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Beth. In Britain, we call them crisps, and you might know them as potato chips, but whatever you call them, these fried potato slices are probably the world's favorite snack.

Nearly you a big crisp eater.

And what's your favorite flavor? I love crisps.

Beth, they are my favorite snack.

My favorite flavor is prawn cocktail, which is controversial because a lot of people don't like that flavor.

I think my favorite is salt and vinegar.

Yummy. You make me hungry. Well, crisps might be popular, but with lots of oil and salt, they're not the healthiest food.

So why do we love them so much?

That's what BBC World Service program The Food Chain, wanted to find out.

Here, presenter Ruth Alexander talks to Mitchell Dingwell, a food executive responsible for developing new crisp flavors.

Why do we love crisps so much?

I think it's just that crunch, right?

You can't beat the crunch in the net, delicious, salty feeling in your mouth, and it just becomes a snowball effect.

You just want more of it.

For Mitchell, the best thing about crisps is the loud crunch.

He says. You can't beat it.

An idiom, meaning something like that's the best thing, and you won't find anything better.

Mitchell says, once you start eating crisps, it's hard to stop, and you just want to eat more and more.

He calls this a snowball effect, a situation where doing something causes other similar things to happen.

You eat one crisp, and before you know it, the whole packet is gone.

In this episode, will be visiting two countries in love with crisps, and as usual, will be learning some useful new words and phrases, all of which you can find on our websites, BBC, learning English dot com.

But 1st, I have a question for you, beth, the record for the world's largest packet of crisps was recently broken in the Saudi Arabia.

But how much did the packet way?

Was it? A About 1.5 tons.

B about 2.5 tons. Or C about 3.5 tons.

Okay, wow. They are all huge.

I'm going to guess about 3.5 tons.

OK, we'll find out the answer later.

Let's travel 1st to Singapore, home of Jolene In, a market research analyst who specializes in salty snacks.

Here is Joline talking with Ruth Alexander for BBC program.

The food chain is the potato chip, the most popular of all salty snacks.

It's very, very much dependent on personal preference.

But if I were to look at certain countries, you could see, like in the UK, is very much part and parcel of life.

You don't have it only during snack times.

You have it with lunch as well.

Or you put it by husband from UK, and he kind of put it in his sandwich as well.

Yeah, A cheese sandwich with a crisp inside?

Oh, yeah. That's great. Exactly erence.

Someone subjective liking or disliking for something based on their personal opinion.

In some places, crisps are part and parcel of everyday life.

Part and parcel means to be an essential element or feature of something.

In Britain, crisps are so essential that people even eat crisp sandwiches.

But not everywhere is so in love with potato chips.

Let's meet Jenny Martines, a food blogger from Mexico.

In Mexico, tortilla corn chips are eaten instead of potato chips, and it's common to see street vendors selling bags of corn to tears filled with different sources.

Here, jenny tells Ruth Alexander more for BBC World Service Program the food chain for you.

Which is your go to snack?

The torteo chip or the potato chip?

Because you could do so many things.

Dip it in almost everything, adding some guacamole, spicy saa, or just sour cream with a mixture of chipodless sauce.

Ruth asks if tortillas are jennies go to snack.

You can use the phrase go to to describe something which is relied upon to be the best thing for a particular purpose, e.g.

for a lot of people, wikipedia is the go to website for online information.

And Jenny thinks quantities are especially good with guacamole, a paste made of mashed avocado, which sounds delicious, and may be a little healthier than a British crisp sandwich.

Speaking of which, what was the answer to your question?

Neil? I asked you how heavy the world's largest bag of crisps was, and I said, very heavy, over three and a half tons.

Well, it's not that big, but the real answer is still enormous, about 1.5 tons.

The bag made in Riad was 9 m tall.

Yeah, OK, let's recap the vocabulary

we've learned, starting with the phrase, you can't beat that, meaning that something is the best and you won't find anything better.

A snowball effect is a situation where one action causes other similar actions to happen.

Erence is their subjective liking or disliking for something based on their own opinion.

To be part and parcel of something means to be an essential or integral feature of it.

And something which is describeds as the go to can be relied upon as the best thing for a particular situation.

And finally, guacamoli is a paste made of mashed avocado lime, juice and salt.

Delicious. Once again, I'll 6 min are up, but if you're hungry for more, then head over to our website, bbc learning english dot com, where you'll find a worksheet and quiz for this episode.

See you again soon, but for now.

Good Bye. Good Bye. 6 min English from BBC Learning English dot com.

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