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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can be disambiguated with 'hot chips' if you ever need to - no worries!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Been enjoying saying"French chips" when needing to clarify

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have to clarify, it's hot chips or packet chips.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's dinner chips/snack chips for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But when do you eat chips?

Hot chips are definitely an anytime food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cooked chips? Generally with my dinner, this is mainly for my shopping lists so my dumb ass doesn't get confused.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As someone from the UK I'd like to clarify that I'd call those Maccies fries, they're too thinly cut to be chips.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does the name "french fries" get used?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think I've ever used that other than at macca's.Shoe string I have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sometimes, mainly just fries I think. I'd certainly know what you meant if you said mcdonalds chips but I'd personally call them fries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

bloke is claiming to be right about English language, so he's automatically wrong, not least because English is totally undeserving of any respect in the first place

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My kid has no actual memories of America, but speaks in an American accent and uses British and American English interchangeably. Almost at random.

I don't even mind anymore either way. I just wish he'd stop calling me bruh. Do they have that in Australia?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That checks out

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an Australian, I refuse to order 'fries' when I go to McDonalds. They're fucking chips, cunt.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

austrailian

calls it mcdonalds instead of maccas

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm trying to accommodate for our mates overseas.

But yeah, you're right, now, I'll be off, I need to go buy a pack of Winnie Blues from the Servo, then head down to the bottle-o to grab a carton of Coopers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I finally realised why the fuck they -o everything: it is so they can squeeze that unrequested quick summary of their next 3 stops on their journey at the end of saying goodbye.

I swear I’ve had conversations where they ramble of the exit-itenerary “Dave? Yeah just saw him, he’s droppin’ the kids of at the pool and the he’s goin fishin for the rest of the day I reckon”

Followed by “Nah mate sorry can’t help ya” <<<- the actual answer to my question.

Followed by their own “Anyways, I better be goin, go to walk the dog and then take m to the vet. Poor thing got lice again. Would’ve loved to have a nap but you can’t let a dog suffer like that.”

We are so good at wasting fckin time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Somehow there's never been any confusion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

If someone asks me if I want some chips my answer will be Yes either way...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Turns out, anywhere that sells chips never sells chips

[–] Rusty 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

100%, saying fish and chips is easy mode for chip context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Also, if somebody told me they were getting chips and came back with some pringles, I'd be throwing hands

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Pommes and Chips! 🇩🇪

The super thick pommes variant might get called Fritjes in the Northwest thanks to our favourite neighbors (Netherlands)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“Pommes” like the French, “pomme de terre”?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, but we pronounce the "es".

A word more true to the french pronunciation of "pommes frites" is "Pommfritz", but that's used by older people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ja frietjesss

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They’re all chippies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'd like to add the age old war between the north and south of the Netherlands of calling fries/chips friet or patat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Jerry is stoned. His mom is a chip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Bullshit. In the UK those crisps are walkers not lays