>>1175158Crisps is a far more fun and intuitive term because it's an onomatopoeia, it's more succinct and puts the emphasis on the senses and not potatoes. The term also has the quality of being the universal to all crisps while potato chips don't account for crisps that are made out of butternut squash or some shit.
Potato chips on the other hand is a bland petulant display of tautology. You'd have to be deluded to try and defend the position that potato chips is a good term for anything, besides maybe downies.
Crisps is the superior term. There's no doubt about it.