All-dressed

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

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

History

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]

See also

• Ketchup chip
• Canadian cuisine

References

1. 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.