do chips with ridges and regular chips taste different?

[HOBBIT]

AKA does texture influence taste?

I say yes.

*finally an interesting topic and you get to see the kind of conversations I have at lunch *

At my lunch table, we have been having the same discussion for a month now.

It all started when I started to bring in my Aero bars (for all you Brits, Canadians, and other UK ppl you know what I am talking about) to school.

If you don't know what an aero bar is, it is a chocolate bar made by nestle only in the UK but you can easily get it at any super market's import section.

It has a distinctive taste because it has air bubbles in it.

The other people at my lunch table are insisting that it cannot taste better than any other chocolate. I say the texture of the way the bar is makes it taste better.
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An anology more familiar to US people -

Ridges vs Regular chips

I say ridges taste different and better than regular chips

The people at my table argue that they both taste the same - just ridges feels different.

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ice cubes vs water
The people at my table brought up a horrible example to support their side - ice cubes vs water.

They think also that ice cubes and water taste the same - but I think that they clearly taste different.
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Your thoughts?

The people arguing against me are being jerks and it is 4 to 1.

If you agree with me that ridges taste different than regular, etc please help me think of some convincing arguements

Or if you agree with them, post why.