Potato Facts
Want to know some really interesting Potato Facts? We know some that will really surprise you!
- If you laid all the British potatoes that are turned into chips every year end to end they would stretch around the world 76 times!
- It would take an area the size of 56,000 Wembley Stadium football pitches to grow all the potatoes needed for the chips consumed in Great Britain each year.
- 10% of the entire British potato crop is needed to supply all the fish and chip shops.
- More than a staggering 250 million portions of fish and chips are sold each year.
- Each 1kg bag of oven chips is made from a weighty 16 medium sized potatoes.
- 8 out of 10 households buy frozen chips each year, so most of us have a bag in the freezer.
