It’s one of those phrases you hear so often, you stop questioning it. Ready Salted. It rolls off the tongue like an old friend — familiar, unassuming, quietly comforting. But if you pause for a moment and actually ask, “Why are they called that?” or “What are they ready for?” the answer leads you into a little corner of crisp history that says a lot about how British snacking evolved. The salt twist that came before Before “Ready Salted” became…

Let’s get this out of the way first: I call them crisps. I grew up calling them crisps, buying crisps, arguing about crisps. I’ve muttered “they’re not chips, mate” under my breath more times than I care to count. I’m born Australian, but grown up English. I know the rules. But when it came time to name this website — a sprawling, salty archive of everything snackable, snackish, and unreasonably crinkly — “Crispopedia” just didn’t resonate. Don’t get me wrong,…