UK person here, and I’ll say this:
No.Small, slim, squished from what was once a potato but is now full of basically fuck all=fries/french fries. (I’ve called them this for around 40 years)
Very thin, usually round-ish, and crispy=crisps
Chunky cuts of proper potato=chips.Also from the UK always called them skinny chips, used to be mostly called that when I was small as well.
The US does have “potato wedges” which might be closer to what you’re calling “chips” here.
Though we also have “steak fries” which are thicker fries
Potato wedges are also a thing in the UK. They’re distinct from chips in their shape; chips tend to be thick and rectangular, without skin. I tried googling steak fries, but it just kept coming back with pictures of wedges, and briefly considered we might actually be referring to different things when we each say wedges, so I promptly shut that can of worms, as we don’t need more transatlantic dissension over potato based snacks.
Lol… The main archetype I think of when I say “potato wedges” would be the ones you get at KFC.
So that might help if you’re curious to see what I’m actually referring to.
Correct. Chips are fatter and cut from actual potatoes. Cross section is about a centimetre.
And what are fries made out of?
Turnip and horseradish sauce of course!
In my house because of the way kiwis say fush and chups we have chips (the crisps) and chups (the thick arse delicious potato)
All stemmed from a joke of getting fush and chups so my younger brother thought it was chips and chups and it stuck
I’m with OP here. I don’t care what they’re called as long as I can get them with salt and vinegar.
I don’t know if ketchup is different outside of the US, but keep that nasty shit the fuck away from my potatoes.
Canada does the same.
The French: fried apples
Bavaria: apples (in French for some reason)
In the UK we call the thin ones fries, probably because of the McDonalds ones. The thicker ones we call chips and yes we call the potato snacks that come in a bag crisps.
Except for Tortilla Chips.
I just call them tortillas.
Indeed
Same in South Africa, it’s all just chips.
Chips and chips, but also slap chips
Oh man, I haven’t had good slap chips in over 10 years. I couldn’t find anything decent after leaving Johannesburg and I haven’t any clue how they get them like that.
I propose we call a spade a spade:
“Deep fried potatoes, extruded, thin”
“Deep fried potatoes, chopped, thick”
“Deep fried potatoes, thinly sliced”
AUSTRALIANS EAT MICE?!?!?!
Watching Letterkenny the other day, and it seems to have taught me about the existence of “All dressed chips”. Being from the middle of the US (I apologize), never heard of that before, but now I needs to goes and finds me a bag or two.
I’ve seen them in the US recently. Lays in a purple bag. It has a maple leaf on the back and says ‘A Canadian favorite’
New Zealand “chips”
“Chups”
As in:
“Wanna chup bro?”
“I can’t eat your ghost chups!”
“I’m beached az”
“D’wanna chup bro?”
“As in a chup?”
“Yeah a chup”
Nah, I only eat plunktun.
Meanwhile the Dutch fighting themselves over ‘friet’ or ‘patat’.
(Hot) chips are fat, fries are thin.
Hot chips are hot.
Chips are not.
Hot chips and lie
Yes but you would never order fries, you would say chips still. We have some very confusing rules on this apparently.
Would you order chips at maccas? I wouldn’t.
Yes
I don’t think it’s very confusing when you remember that we don’t get (non-hot) chips (crisps) as a side dish to any meal.
Like in the U.S. you can get either as a side. In Australia if it says (or you ask for) chips, you get hot chips (fries).
Chips (crisps) are just a standalone snack here.
What do yanks call thick cut chips? It seems “burger and fries” is burned into their national psyche (leading to memes such as these) but surely they have a word for the non shoestring fry version. Wedges? 🤔
Anyway, the Brits have probably got it right on this occasion, but context definitely helps with the dual usage in Aus. I’m not going to have fish and chips with crisps, and a packet of chips isn’t going to be of the hot variety.
Either potato wedges if they’re actually wedge shaped or steak fries if they’re more rectangular.
Steak fries
fries are only chips when served with fried fish
Taters.
Fry 'em, chip 'em, throw 'em in a stew.
Po-tay-toes!
