All-dressed (French: assaisonnées or French: toute garnie[1]) is a potato chip flavour popular in Canada.[2]

Kwik-Trip's No Dip Required all-dressed chips on the left, Aldi's wavy all-dressed chips on the right

History

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While consensus is that the flavour first originated in Canada, it is unknown who or which company first introduced the all-dressed potato chip. Yum Yum, a Quebec-based company, is known to have created a variety of the flavour in 1978.[3] The term "all-dressed" and its French equivalent toute garnie originally applied to pizza, meaning roughly "everything-on-it", deluxe, or "the works".[1] The term "all-dressed" extended beyond just pizza and found its way into the world of potato chips. Many early references to the flavour all-dressed are linked to pizza flavour potato chips.[1] An all-dressed chip called The Whole Shabang is produced by American prison supplier Keefe Group. It became available to the general public in 2016.[4] Frito-Lay began selling all-dressed Ruffles potato chips that same year.[5] In 2024, Co-op Food in the United Kingdom began selling a limited edition all dressed variety crisp as part of their Irresistible range.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Dollinger, Stefan (2017). "23 Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles World Englishes and linguistic variation in real time". The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. Routledge. pp. 371–378. ISBN 978-1-315-10494-2. OCLC 1006417081.
  2. ^ Patel, Ari (23 September 2015). "Ruffles All Dressed Will Now Be Available In The United States". Huffington Post (Canada). Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ^ Provencher, Liz (19 March 2020). "How to Get Your Hands on All Dressed Chips". Thrillist. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Chips So Good You'll Have to Go to Jail to Get Them". NBC News. 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ William-Ross, Lindsay (16 September 2015). "FINALLY: All Dressed chips are available in the U.S." Vancity Buzz. Vancouver. Archived from the original on 11 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ^ "These are our tasting panel's favourite crisps for snacking this summer". 30 April 2024.