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What's causing Australia's frozen chip shortage and how long will it last?
- rzzzwilson 3y agoPOTATO chips!
- re-thc 3y agoAI flavored!
- Daneel_ 3y agoObviously written by someone in Victoria: “potato cake” It’s a potato scallop, mate.
- andrewstuart 3y agoThey’re not shellfish.
- marak830 3y agoScallop is in reference to the cut type. As in scallop cut potato.
- stephenr 3y agoPotato cake and potato scallop are both stupid names. It's literally a potato fritter.
- Daneel_ 3y agoTongue is firmly in cheek :) I don't care what people call them in reality so long as I can get my hands on them! So damn good.
- throwaway2990 3y agoPretty sure you mean a potato fritter.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- twelvechairs 3y agohttps://lingroadshow.com/all-about-language/englishes-in-australia/vocabulary/mapping-words-around-australia/ https://lingroadshow.com/all-about-language/englishes-in-aus...
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoThose Victorians need to go back to skew-el (it's hard to write their pronunciation of school...)
- devjam 3y ago> Published 16 January 2023 3:59pm
- blitzar 3y agoI always put the publication date as 6 months prior on my blogs - Consider it a form of time travel.
- pestatije 3y agoi only eat boiled potatoes, coudnt care less
- red_admiral 3y agoPO-TA-TOES. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
- re-thc 3y agoEUV multi-pattern potatoes
- quickthrower2 3y agoGod people may need to peel a potato
- xeromal 3y agoHelp us all
- esperent 3y agoOk, I'll explain. It's not about people at home having to peel potatoes. Imagine you run a diner. You have low profit margins and you use frozen chips. It's a high volume item. Most customers order chips. A 25kg bag of potatoes is about 30 portions. You might use 100kg of raw potatoes in a day. Have you ever peeled, chipped, parboiled, and possibly pre-fried 100kg of potatoes? I certainly haven't but I imagine it's at least a shift of work for a member of staff. Which means you need to hire someone. You might also need to buy a commercial potato peeler which cost $1000-$3000 US. Then a month or two later the shortage is over, you go back to frozen. Do you fire the new staff? Sell the machine?
- ggm 3y agoPink fir apple disappeared from the market in Brissie. I miss 'em
- _0ffh 3y ago@dang Please change to potato chip or frozen fries shortage, on HN this title verges onto click bait.
- Gasp0de 3y agoI think it's funny, although it does go against the guideline of not editorializing headlines. Changing the title wouldn't really make sense as I believe the whole submission was meant as a joke around the changed title to deceit hacker news readers.
- jansan 3y agoDo Australians say "chips" or "crisps"?
- senectus1 3y agoChips
- devjam 3y agoChips. Although very occasionally you will hear crisps. Often "hot chips" (french fries), as distinct from a "packet of chips" (crisps), but it's contextual: e.g. a Schnitzel with salad and chips, would always be with hot chips.
- rgoulter 3y agoNew Zealand uses "chips" for two kinds. e.g. I'd use the name "chip sandwich" for a sandwich with crisps in them; a "chip butty" is sandwich with thick-cut french fries.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoNah, in New Zealand they're "chups". "A fush fullet end fuftiin dolliz o' chups thinks" And "hot dogs" in New Zealand are battered sausages. That was a hard lesson for one of my kids :)
- inopinatus 3y agoCrisps. Unless you are referring to a packet of chips, which you may also refer to as a bag of crisps, which you may also call chips. This is on the citizenship test, by the way. Every other answer is “Sir Donald Bradman”.
- nabogh 3y agoI'm sorry I don't get the joke because we definitely do not say crisps
- inopinatus 3y ago
- tomhoward 3y agoFrom May 2023: "With the major rains at an end for now, potatoes are returning to the shelves and frozen food section." https://theconversation.com/what-was-behind-australias-potato-shortage-wet-weather-and-hard-to-control-diseases-205847 https://theconversation.com/what-was-behind-australias-potat...