Potato Chips: Who Knew So Many Recipes Need This Ingredient?

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BRIGHT SIDE These green beans get a remarkable crunch and kick from a topping of crushed potato chips, chopped almonds, fried garlic and onions, and whole spices. Photo: CHELSIE CRAIG FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FOOD STYLING BY TYNA HOANG, PROP STYLING BY SOPHIE LENG AT 6 P.M. every […]

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BRIGHT SIDE These green beans get a remarkable crunch and kick from a topping of crushed potato chips, chopped almonds, fried garlic and onions, and whole spices.

Photo: CHELSIE CRAIG FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FOOD STYLING BY TYNA HOANG, PROP STYLING BY SOPHIE LENG

AT 6 P.M. every night, my 2-year-old son requests that we play a “Jazz for Kids” CD of mostly food-focused songs. (Yes, we still have a CD player.) The 1952 number “Potato Chips,” from singer and multi-instrumentalist Slim Gaillard, contains the following refrain, a surprisingly relentless earworm:

“Crunch, crunch, I don’t want no lunch / All I want is potato chips.”

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