where did the name chips ahoy come from
Chips Ahoy! Nabisco says the name is "a reference to the nautical term, Ships Ahoy!". The words "Chips Ahoy!" also feature prominently in a story appearing in Chapter 15 of "The Uncommercial Traveller", by Charles Dickens.[3] Dickens relays a childhood tale of a girlfriend, named Chipselle, who is taunted by a bully who tormented her endlessly with, "Chips Ahoy!" There is also a 1956 American animated theatrical short titled Chips Ahoy.