Potato Chips Bag Ornament

We do, and it hangs from a standard cap and loop like everything else here. It is a foil bag rendered in blown glass, crimped along the top and puffed through the middle, and it is one of the more expensive things in the range to make. My brother-in-law Dermot found that fact enormously satisfying. He tells people.

It is, and it is the one thing in there that survives the audit. A stocking gets quietly triaged over the following days: the candy goes, the socks vanish into a drawer, the novelties reach a bin by February. An ornament gets boxed with the others and comes back next year. Dermot still has his from 2019. Nothing else survived.

Somebody who eats out of the bag and is unrepentant about it. There is an entire personality attached to this and every family contains one. Dermot holds that a bowl is a decision to stop and a bag is the absence of one, a position he has never been asked to defend and defends constantly. He would love this. He got one.

Real blown glass, hand-painted, which is the joke of the thing: it takes considerably more work to make something look flimsy than to make it look solid. The crimp, the slack through the belly and the slight lean on the hook are all deliberate. Dermot did not believe it was glass until he took the weight of it. Then he went quiet.

It stands 3.54 inches tall and 2.36 inches wide, which is a genuine bag rather than a miniature one, and it is broad enough to want a little room either side. The puffed middle is the widest point. Dermot compared his to an actual bag and reported the proportions as accurate. He then ate the actual bag.

Wrap it around the body rather than the crimped top, because the crimp is the thinnest glass on the piece and takes any pressure first. Lay it flat with tissue underneath instead of standing it on end. Dermot stores his in the original packaging, which he kept, and regards this as a personal triumph over his household. It probably is.

Anything else that arrives in its own wrapper. Half the food range is plated or served and the other half comes packaged, and hanging the packaged ones together gives you a branch that reads as a shop shelf rather than a table. It is a real distinction once you have seen it. Dermot sees it and points at it. Repeatedly.

No, it does not arrive gift boxed. It ships in protective transit packaging built to get a thin-walled bag shape through the post without a crushed crimp, which is a different job and the one that actually matters. Dermot claimed the packaging was better engineered than the ornament, then hung the ornament and kept the packaging. Both remain in use.