Cheap as chips
What better way for a boy to spend a sixpence? Republished from 2024
The bestest thing to pass my lips
At any time’s a bag of chips.
At sixpence there’s no better treat,
With salt and vinegar you can’t beat
The tangy warmness that pervades
The winter kid who promenades.
No fries from France could make me dance,
No ketchup dip for my thick chip.
Northerners swear by their brown gravy,
To smother tater chips they may be
Happy consuming their own way.
Salt and vinegar’s best, I say.
No better way to spend a shilling.
A bag for you and if you’re willing
One for me I could relate.
A bag of chips is truly great.
One of my performance pieces. Why? Because it is simple, basic, perhaps trivial, I hope amusing, and I hope it might appeal to a wider audience than the typical poetry person. Oh, and because I can remember it and perform it without reading.
About the Creator
Raymond G Taylor
Author based in Margate on the English Kent coast, having moved from London. Known for his short stories and flash fiction, as well as poetry and non-fiction writing on subjects such as art, science, technology and the human condition
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