We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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Because when volunteers were merely thinking about chips, they naturally compared them with the sardines or the chocolate.

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Chuao staffers crush chips by hand for the Potato Chip Bar so the chocolate is interspersed with chunky potato chip pieces rather than salty dust.

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