The London Eye, the Palace of Westminster and the Big Ben have been recreated out of chips

Feb 20, 2014 12:27 GMT  ·  By

Artist Prudence Staite and a group of fries fans from Gloucestershire have created edible sculptures of famous UK landmarks out of chips and mushy peas.

Britain’s most iconic landmarks have been recreated using chips, including the London Eye, the Palace of Westminster, Stone Henge, the Big Ben, the Angel of the North and the slightly golden White Cliffs of Dover.

The food artist used 10 kg of French fries to produce the tasty artwork. Some of the sculptures required a lot of work, like the Angel of the North which includes 240 chips and took 12 hours to complete.

The Dover cliffs design needed only 70 fries and took just four hours to complete. The chips version of this landmark was dubbed the “White Chips of Dover.”

Scotland was also represented in the collection, as Ms Staite also created a Loch Ness Monster, using just seven chips.

The artist says she used a perfect combination of Chip Shop Chips and oven chips for each sculpture. She also added mushy peas to her creations to illustrate the surrounding landscapes.

“We had so much fun with this project, from the very first sketches to the technical challenges around how the sculptures would hold together,” said the food artist, as reported by Yahoo News.

“Iconic landmarks in Britain are so important to our cultural history and eating chips is such a British tradition that it felt natural to combine the two and create some history of our own,” she added.

The art works were created to mark the Potato Council's Chip Week 2014, which runs from 17 to 23 of February.

Stu Baker, of the Potato Council, said “We always enjoy the creativity and ingenuity that Chip Week tends to inspire and Prudence has certainly taken it to a whole new level.”

Statistics reveal that people in Britain spend an average of £4.8 million ($7,9 million / €5.8 million) a week on fish and chips and that 250 million meals are sold in UK each year.

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British artist created edible versions of iconic UK Landmarks
The Big Ben made of chipsThe Angel of the North created out of french fries
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