canadianspankee:
Excellent idea for the pop ups, but why only a bag of crisps (whatever they are, is there a Canadian term for them?),
Candianspankee,
I believe "crisps" is the British term for what we in North America call "potato chips". I think that the British term is derived from the fact that "crisp" also can mean "rippled with minute waves" which is the shape of most potato chips. Also what we call "french fries" is what the British call "chips" as in "fish and chips".
When I write a story where the location is in the U.K. I have to watch out for the different expressions used by Americans and Britons. By the way, American English is older than British English. Modern English as spoken in the U.K. has evolved in the last 2 hundred years. Americans mostly use the older form. Linguists say that an American actor reciting Shakespeare sounds closer to the original than a modern British actor does.
(I really wish that the Forum had a spell-checker funtion. I have to proofread my messages several times and even then I am not sure that I have not made any mistkes...mastikes...mistakes)
Tiptopper