Transporting bags of chips
 

Hi, I want to order those multi-pack of potato chips from Amazon and bring it overseas for my friends to enjoy. I'm talking about a few dozen small bags of chips, any one have good suggestion on how to pack or transport them? Don't exactly want them to turn into bags of crumbs when they arrive.

in this globalized world that we live in, are you sure they don't have it there to start with?

the stories I can tell (or other FTers ) about travelling thousands of miles and finding that the stores all begin to look IDENTICAL................

Agree with previous poster. Several years ago we fell in love with a single malt scotch whiskey in London. This was on the first leg of a RTW trip. We shlepped two bottles of that whiskey around the world. Imagine my surprise when on my return I found that same whiskey in my local Los Angeles supermarket.:rolleyes:

Slightly off-topic, but I went to Vancouver last year and was asked instructed by a certain FTer (*cough* missy *cough*) to buy all the Spicy Indian Masala Lays Potato Chips I could get my hands on. I went to about six Safeways and ended up with two cases (20 bags) worth of various flavors. I used the original packing boxes that one of the Safeways gave me and I checked them in as my luggage, marked fragile. They survived well, with the exception of one or two bags that opened (perhaps due to the change in pressure). I think the goal is to pack them snugly to prevent as much shifting as possible and prevent the chips from breaking.

Pack them in a box and put the box in your suitcase or another box. If you put them directly in the suitcase or outside box, then other items will crush them. If you are only transporting chips, then put them directly in a box and add crumpled newspaper so they won't shift around too much.

This applies to potato chips as well as cow chips....moo...:p

put them in your carry on.....about 25 yrs ago, we took 2 3# bags of sams nacho chips to paris for a daughters tex mex party....we took them on the plane....no prob....still have the pic of the 3 of us w/chips w the eifel? toweer as background.....good luck...

among other things that we have taken abroad was 10 car window cup holders....not available in england at that time....they were requested by a visiting friend from london....

Thanks for all the advice, box inside the suitcase it is!

I had the same thing happen to a can of Dr Pepper I had in my checked luggage, on my flights from SAT-SYD, had about a dozen cans and only one leaked so I was fairly happy with that, especially given none of the Dublin Dr Pepper bottles leaked! I don't know how anyone could pack that to make sure that didn't happen.

horrified
 

As an Englishman I am deeply disturbed by the proposal to transport chips.....surely they would be stone cold by the time you got them, and I suspect the fish batter will be quite soggy too

nickyboy

LOL. As a Scotsman I was thinking exactly the same ;-)

I was actually thinking about this the other day. When I was in Tokyo earlier this year, I was a bit disappointed on their potato chips. I didn't think they tasted that great. I told my friends the kinds of flavours we have in Canada and they were fascinated. The next time, I came into town I told them that I would bring a few.

Did it once--a big bag of corn chips. It went in her carry-on, arrived fine.