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Parrothead

nope

was brought up on FRENCH fries,

politically correct be dammed

 

chips are what come in plastic bag's an have salt and comes in various flavors,

 

Damn right. Richard and I do not agree often. But, we certainly do on this.

 

 

The only reason America has "french fries" (which are NOT chips) is McDonald's.

Proper chips are fresh daily, way bigger, irregular shape, double cooked and do not freeze so were no good to McDonald's.

So was invented the fast food skinny and insipid "American french fry".

A freezable version of the original potato chip.

 

In the sixties I sold Birdseye products and even though Birdseye was an English company the frozen product was always labeled "fries" not "chips" ('Oven Fries' for instance).

As technology improved the frozen "crinkle cut chip" was developed but still not a real potato chip.

 

The snack things sold in packets are not chips.

A chip is a chunk of something, not a slice.

A fried thin slice of a spud is a 'potato crisp', thicker slices are fritters.

Pringles by the way, may not call their product "potato" anything as they contain less than 40% potato.

 

So endeth the lesson.

 

So endeth the lesson - and a lot of wasted typing to boot. :D 

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dicey eye

Come on guys, you all know there are many cultural and geographic dictated variations in English usage. Both variations in lingo are correct - just that the American one is slightly more correct. No true?

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Guest Kenny

Ok, I'll simplify it to suit the audience.

 

A french fry is not a potato chip.

A potato chip is not a french fry.

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dicey eye

Quote Gertrude Stein, "A rose is a rose is a rose." translated, it is what it is.

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Guest Kenny

Mr Wiki tells me......

 

French fries (American English) or chips, fries, finger chips, or French-fried potatoes are batons of deep-fried potato. North Americans refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of fried potatoes are sometimes called fries to distinguish them from the more thickly cut strips called chips.

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dicey eye

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