“What did one potato chip say to the other?”/“Shall we go for a dip?”
A potato chip riddle is:
Q: What did one potato chip say to the other?
A: “Shall we go for a dip?”
“Dip” can mean “a swim” or “a dipping sauce.” The joke has been cited in print since at least 1972.
Newspapers.com
18 November 1972, Daily Record (Long Branch, NJ), pg. 17, col. 1:
What did one potato chip say to the other potato chip?
What do you say we go for a dip.
Katie DeSantis, 70 Comanche Dr., Oceanport. N.J.
Newspapers.com
9 July 1973, Miami (FL) News, “Mini-Day,” pg. 6B, col. 4:
Q. What did one potato chip say to another?
A. Let’s get out swimsuits on and go for a dip.
—Karen Rosenthal, age 11, Miami
11 May 1975, Washington (DC) Star, “Mini Jokes,” Mini Page, pg. 3, col. 1:
Q. What did the lady potato chip say to the man potato chip?
A. Let’s take a dip.
Sharon Radziewski
Google Books
February 1982, Boys’ Life “Think & Grin,” pg. 72, col. 3:
Al: What did one potato chip say to the other?
Bert: Let’s go for a dip. — Don Wilson, Loveland, Ohio.
Google Books
Remember the A la Mode:
Riddles and Puns
By Charles Keller
Illustrated by Lee Lorenz
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
1983
Pg. ?:
What did one potato chip say to the other?
“Shall we go for a dip?”
Google Books
The Zaniest Riddle Book in the World
By Joseph Rosenbloom
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
1984
Pg. 49:
What did one potato chip say to the other?
“Shall we go for a dip?”
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What did one potato chip say to the other?
“Shall we take a dip?”
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