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The American Revolution saved millions of us from a terrible fate (lemmy.world)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Those look more like french fries than real chips.

But honestly, don't knock it til you've tried it. That's some pretty tasty food, and better than a number of dishes we have in America.

[–] sharpratchet@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Chips in the UK are called crisps and fries are called chips.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I know. I'm originally from the UK.

ETA: the 'chips' in that photo look too skinny to be real British chips IMO.

[–] sharpratchet@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ah fair, I am not from the UK but a rugby mate of mine passed some UK culture on and tried to teach us how to speak "the Queen's English"

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

you're thinking of wide wibbly spuds

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Just to note: we have fries here too.

Chips are thick, fries are referring to the thin ones (like in McDonalds). However they're still a form of chip so many just call them chips all the same.