The Potato Council of Britain, of course, funded research into the benefits of potato chips at Birmingham’s Aston University (Daily Telegraph)Experts believe that it may be because of the carbohydrates in chips – of course it is….
Never mind. This is jolly junk science. Sixty men and women watched a five minute film which depicted the fall out from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Half were then given a magazine to read, the rest a plate of chips.
Apparently, the viewers were very upset, but after twenty minutes the chip eaters perked up. Now what I want to know is why the magazine readers didn’t. Could they have been forced to read the Economist. Bet they’d have cheered up with Cosmopolitan’s sexiest bachelors….
