Slang Files · 📟 '90s & hip-hop

G33Z3R Slang Files · 19941999

Where did "all that and a bag of chips" come from?

All that (and a bag of chips)

Means
Excellent; the bag of chips is a bonus on top
Came from
Mid-'90s hip-hop and Black slang; the Nickelodeon show All That took the name in 1994
Peak
1995–1998
Still around?
As a '90s reference

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All that was the compliment and the bag of chips was the joke on top: you're the whole meal plus the side. She's All That (1999) put it on a movie poster, which was the end.

It's a phrase you say now to prove you were there, and it's worth it just for the chips.

Sources: Wiktionary — All that (and a bag of chips)

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