J. Kenji Lopez-Alt explains why adding chips to your tuna salad (or chicken salad) sandwiches is genius.

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As a child, sandwich day at school was my very favorite.

I was the kid who took apart her sandwich to sneak a few crispy potato chips inside.

chicken salad and chips on a table napkin over a wooden board

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While incredibly simple, his trick instantly upgrades any sandwich, particularly salad-based.

Chips not only taste delicious, but they also play a crucial role in keeping a sandwich together.

One solution would be to make a drier salad, but that doesn’t sound appealing.

chicken salad sandwich with potato chips in the sandwich.

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Now, that is the problem-solving this world needs!

So Ive been adding crushed corn chips to anavocado-based chicken saladits my current go-to lunch.

For the potato chip purists, I recently rediscovered another blast from the past:Utz Potato Stix.

They are super crunchy but small enough to pile high between two slices of bread.