Okay, us north americans call our deep fried potatos french fries, and you Brits call them chips, so what do you call what we would call chips? Or potato chips to be mroe formal? In case you have no idea what I'm talking about: You know, crispy munchies.... Or do you just always confuse eachother and ask for the chips and then say no, the other chips? Please don't close/delete this thread mods, at least not until I get an answer.... This has been driving me nuts..... [size=0.5]And there ain't no steering wheel on my groin.....[/size]
Crisps? Really? How odd......... But then again I feel calling french fries chips is odd.... I hate how here they are called french fries, but if you buy a battered fish and french fries combo, it's still called fish and chips over here... ARGH. Okay thank you very much. Crisps... Hmmm... I'm going to go confuse all my friends now, thank you
Kargin, just do what most Americans do when confronted with other cultures: Screw it, make them adapt!
in australia we call them both chips but mostly we say "hey want sum fish and chip" or "hey u want a bag chips"
yeah french fries refer to those horrible thin no-potato-in-them-prolly-toilet-paper things you get from disgusting filth like McDonalds, but proper ones are called chips
Fries (what you get in McDonalds or BK) - narrow & straight fried potato. Chips (from a Fish & Chip shop) - thick & chunky fried potato. Crisps - very thin (sometimes rippled) and 'crispy' fried potato. All widely available across the UK!
I don't know where people in the UK get their warped sense of people in America, but on average Americans aren't as stuck up and idiodic (I realise that there are a LOT of those people, but I said "on average" ) as most people believe. there are some of us that are genuinly interested in other cultures, and I think that this thread proves it. Plus our culture is from a thousand other cultures on earth, all adapted to fit together to make one (did that make sense?) I know that comment was probably a joke, and I'm sorry if I took it the wrong way, but I have been told MANY times lately how I act because I'm an American by people that don't even know me.
I'm hungry too, it's 12am and I haven't eaten anything yet! Looking up those pics made my tummy start rumbling!
One more hour till Lunch... I really hope it doesn't drag. I think I'll go browse General News, and look for any other news to post before GOO posts it before I can
The real question is where anyone came up with the name "french fry", because you say that to anyone french and they will attempt to kill you.
it was.. another difference there too - british humor =/= (cant do a crossed out equals) american humor.
lol... the background on that is that they are a "french" style cut and are fried... not very original. One thing that shocked me: One of my room mates from college was from London and he had his mom send him a box of various "crisps" from home. Fellow Americans think we have a wide variety of flavors here. You Brits have an insane number of crazy flavors ... I enjoy the differences... funny, entertaining and educational and if you ignore them you miss out on some top notch snacks and isn't that what life's about anyway?...
