On 17Mar2022 1500, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> I just visited a fast-food place & discovered that they now serve 'fish & chips', so I tried it.
> It was pretty good, IMO, but, not unexpected, the 'chips' were actually what we yanks usually call 'french fries'.
> So here's the question for the 'internationals' out there;
> In your country, what do you call the things that we yanks call 'potato chips' or just 'chips'?
As in, very thinly cut and fried until they are crunchy? Here in New
Zealand they are 'chips' or 'chippies'.

Deep fried until cooked through and steamy hot chips are just that,
'chips' unless bought at a fast-food chain like McDonalds in which case
they might be 'fries' or 'french fries', because that's what they call
them (and they're much thinner cut, so people might call thin-cut chips
like that 'fries' as well, but usually they'd be 'shoestring' chips).

Bigger chips are probably going to be called 'wedges' and are often
served in pubs with sour cream, often just on their own, but also as a
side to a main dish (probably steak or the like).

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>