Which fast-food joint in Australia has the best chips?

There’s one debate that can get even the most chilled Aussie fired up and that is the great Aussie chip debate but we finally have answered.

What is the ultimate chip?

The great hot chip debate is a conversation that can divide even the best of Aussie mates, and ambitiously we’ve tried to settle it once and for all.

Is KFC the home of the best chips? Is McDonald’s king of the chips? Is Hungry Jack’s the unlikely underdog that sells the best chips?

It is a huge and divisive question.

Australia hasn’t been asked such a tough question since 2003 when we had to pick between Guy Sebastian and Shannon Noll.

Here at news.com.au we tried to get to the bottom of the salty problem via an elaborate and groundbreaking experiment.

We ordered chips from all three fast-food joints and then separated them from their packaging so you couldn’t tell where they were from.

It was quite an elaborate mission getting all three chips to arrive around the same time. For a second there, it looked like the chip experiment was going to turn into a chip fiasco, but thankfully all the hot chips arrived safely and ready for tasting.

We then asked three esteemed and hungry journalists to answer two big questions.

What chips are from where?

Which chips are the best?

Reporter Bel took the mission very seriously and described herself as a chip expert. She didn’t provide proof of what makes her an expert, but let’s not dwell on that.

Sadly her credentials were brought into question because she identified the chips wrong.

She dubbed the classic McDonald’s chips “overrated”, called the KFC chips “too salty” and dubbed The Hungry Jack’s chips the winner.

The problem? The chips she thought were the Hungry Jacks chips were actually the KFC chips.

Succession writers couldn’t even dream up this kind of plot twist.

Clearly she had preconceived notions about the KFC chips but our zero packaging tactic meant we got an unbiased answer out of her.

KFC: 1

McDonald’s: 0

Hungry Jack’s: 0

Reporter Bucky stepped up the plate next and he was much more on the case.

He identified all three chips correctly just by looking at them - we may need to fill out his entry for the next season of Australia’s Got Talent.

After he tasted the chips he declared that Hungry Jack’s had a chip glow-up and now sold the best fast-food chips in Australia, although he did admit KFC was coming in second.

KFC: 1

McDonalds: 0

Hungry Jack’s: 1

Bucky knows his chips just by looking at them. Picture: News.com.au

Bel believes she's a chip expert. Picture: news.com.au

Sports reporter Daanyal made the same mistake as Bel and believed KFC chips were Hungry Jack’s chips.

He said if piping hot he prefers a McDonald’s chips but they don’t age well cold and he ultimately chose KFC thinking they were Hungry Jack’s.

Are you following? I know this experiment has turned into Inception.

Final result:

KFC: 2

McDonald’s: 0

Hungry Jack’s: 1

So what have we learnt? Aussies can’t identify their favourite chips like they think they can, and if we go by the majority, KFC chips reign supreme.