fries are only chips when served with fried fish
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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Meanwhile the Dutch fighting themselves over 'friet' or 'patat'.
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"
(Hot) chips are fat, fries are thin.
Yes but you would never order fries, you would say chips still. We have some very confusing rules on this apparently.
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.
Steak fries
Either potato wedges if they're actually wedge shaped or steak fries if they're more rectangular.
It's fries and cold fries
They're all the same thing, might as well call them the same things. I prefer my fries in a whole form, piped hot from the oven after an hour at 450F and covered with some salt and butter. If you want to get decadent, you can split the fry in half and put the butter inside. Some people even put sour cream, onion, chives, or bacon bits on the split fry.
Taters.
Fry 'em, chip 'em, throw 'em in a stew.
Po-tay-toes!
Everyone is correct imo, wood from wood chipper would have some bits would resemble both, If you have a wooden furniture and it chips due to some damage, the part that chipped off can resemble either one. Theyre both crispened, so crisps works for both too. And theyre both "fried" or baked with oil.
The real question is why the heck do us americans calll them "french" fries, or for that matter, what is up with french toast, french braid, french kiss, and french maid. None of this shit is of french origin.
Perhaps they're just American things that Lafayette liked.
It's all about context!
Fries are the frozen shoestring things imo.
Shoestring chips are far inferior to thick cut chips
I'll gladly exchange my share of the worlds fattys for your share of the worlds thinnies
Done 👍
Why would you shorten crispened potato snacks to anything other than crisps?
Why would you’se elongate chip to crispened potato snack?
It's not a chip off of a potato, though, is it? It's a sliver of potato. That's been crispened.