[ Hey, he's running with her total bullshit, so that's to his credit. ]

I should think eating chips would be very different from, say, a hot dog. Much less many hot dogs. But because the parameters of the example only specified chips, for the sake of this challenge, I should expect it to begin and end there.

Looking for use in a stated uselessness is akin to considering the possibility of replacement for the hypothetically irreplaceable missing limb. In reality, it is by all means an option, but for this thought experiment it's cheating.