'Chip-gate' is engulfingt he BBC with claiming the corporation has introduced a "six chip" rule in their canteen.
Bemused workers said servers were "counting out" fries on Friday, leading to "uproar" among staff.
Several shared their annoyance on social media about the move at the London HQ.
Arif Ansari, head of news for BBC Asian Network, tweeted a picture showing a handful of chips next to a piece of chicken.
He wrote: "New rules in the BBC canteen limit the number of chips to six! The staff seemed shocked that I didn't go with the unlimited couscous instead."
Some replies said: "Would they have got away with serving just 6 chips when you were up North?"
While another said: "They are quite big chips though".
And one wag added: "Go find a BBC Editor....most of them have spare chips on their shoulder..."
Dom Stirling, a freelance radio producer at the BBC, added: "There is currently uproar in the canteen as the '6 chip rule' is introduced... In which servers are instructed to individually count out 6 chips per person.
"I wish this was a joke."
The BBC denied any such rule had been introduced.
The official Twitter account of its press office shared a picture of a food box containing at least nine chips.
It said: "There's something a little fishy about this as there is definitely no six-chip rule (see today's lunch for evidence!) - we don't want to get chippy about it but we're frying to get to the bottom of it."
