On 17/3/22 19:33, Jeff Zeitlin - jdzspamcop at gmail.com (via tml list)
wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 02:00:32 +0000 (UTC), Phil Pugliese 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'?
>> TIA,
> I'm a Yank, so I call them 'potato chips' or 'chips', but most of the
> Anglosphere calls 'em 'crisps'.
> -----

I can only speak from personal experience on the east coast of STRAYA.

For the pre-cooked crunchy kind, it can be either 'chips' or 'potato chips'.

For the cooked-to-order not-crunchy-to-start-with kind, it's either
chips, or 'hot chips'.

"Fries" seems to be limited to _some_ fast food places, usually imported
from the Cousins.  Maccas, KFC, it's "fries", Red Rooster, it's, iirc,
"chips", etc.

One dish I regularly demolished, in my senior high school days, was the
chippo roll - a hotdog-style bread roll, cut lengthwise, buttered,
loaded with hot chips (no actual meat-imitation hot dog) and then your
sauce(s) of choice applied liberally.  nom nom nom.