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Chips are definitely a thing in the UK. Like French fries but usually chunkier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish
by mkl 10mo ago
Chips are definitely a thing in the UK. Like French fries but usually chunkier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips
- whynotmaybe 10mo agoWhich is called Fish and Chips in Canada, even though it's served with fries.
- NooneAtAll3 10mo agoI heard some restaurant getting sued for selling "fish and chips" without fish, but I don't remember how it ended
- thayne 10mo agoSame in the US
- teekert 10mo agoIn the Netherlands we have two words for fries and you know if someone is from the north or the south based on their use: Patat, north en Friet, south, particularly in the South people are sensitive to using the wrong, northern word. (And chips are just crisps here.)
- yurishimo 9mo agoWhat? Every time I see kids on the train they’re talking about going to the appie to buy a redbull and “zakje chips”. I live in Eindhoven though so idk if that plays a roll.
- teekert 9mo ago"Zakje chips" is a small bag of crisps (like Lays)... If they go for fries they'd say they go for a "frietje". Eindhoven is distinctly in the South :) That damn Red Bull though, somehow the kids love it, part of it is probably that their parents keep them away from it. Sugar and Caffeine. Diabetes and poor sleep, great stuff.
- mjlee 9mo agoIn the UK a fish and chips shop is sometimes called a "chip shop". The New York Times helpfully translated this in a recent article: > “I’ve seen lots of students my age struggling, trying to get work and even the basic necessities,” Agastya Dhar, 17, said. Mr. Dhar has a part-time job in a French fry restaurant, but said even getting that job was tough. French fry restaurant is now my preferred term for the local chippy. For those outside the UK chip shops normally have no seating, or maybe a couple of uncomfortable, uninviting, flourescent lit plastic benches and tables, normally bolted down, maybe sprayed clean at the end of the night. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/uk-budget-youth-unemployment-minimum-wage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/uk-budget-yo...
- adventured 10mo agoThe chunkier fries are akin to what the US calls steak fries and are very common in the US as well.
- OJFord 10mo agoThat's gastro pub chips though, not chippy chips.
- shermantanktop 10mo agoIf you are lucky, you get triple-fried chips. Which are just as good/bad as they sound.
- omnicognate 10mo ago> just as good/bad as they sound. I.e. extremely good and not at all bad.
- doubletwoyou 9mo agohealthwise i guess for the bad
- OJFord 9mo agoTriple-cooked chips are usually parboiled and twice fried; if anything it's probably healthier than a single fry, because the first fry is brief and hot to crisp up the exterior, so the oil absorption's less the second time, and perhaps less overall than a single (necessarily cooler) fry.
- shermantanktop 9mo agoThe chips in question are deeply brown and shiny, but your reasonable-sounding explanation suits my need for self-delusion so well that I will accept it whether it’s true or not.
- zdragnar 10mo agoWhat Americans call chips (potato or corn) the UK typically calls crisps.