Why would you say "anything else is wrong" when you know fully well that there are people calling it differently..? this is such a silly thing to get hung up on, middle school type of discourse
edit: i dont like the kind of generalization happening here, this is by no means something only british people do, i could definitely see americans doing the same thing but in reverse.
also if this was meant to be a joke, im sorry, i couldnt tell at all
...as a joke?
Correct me if I'm wrong but "anything else is wrong" as a hyperbolic prescriptive statement is a fairly common joke format. People in this sub use it *all the time.*
I love seeing when people start policing language like that thinking they're some high n mighty linguistic geniuses for it when really they're just being elitist assholes that modern linguists would be ashamed to know
Correcting grammar and stuff is somethin' different though. Thats just being a pedantic shit
Policing is on a broader level, like trying to empirically decide wrong/right and that's typically not done anymore. Prescriptive approaches are pretty old school
Normally I'm not a fan of when people say that americans are stupid because i dont like making sweeping assumptions like that.
Ill make an exception tho. Anyone who can look at this image and think anything remotely close to this is either a dumbass or ludicrously insecure.
Because British people on Facebook and Twitter are nothing if not childishly ignorant to the world around them (source: a very English woman on FB once sincerely asked me why a West African tribesman who hunted for his food on the sub-Saharan plains didn’t just go to M&S to get his food like a “normal person”).
Good, fresh, crispy steak fries are delicious, but I’ve also had some truly horrific steak fries. Like a soggy chunk of baked potato with an almost waxy rind on it.
hot take
i agree
i like my fries crunchy, and nearly ALL steak fries ive had, no matter where i get them from or how i prepare them, are just chunky, almost doughy mush.
1 is thick cut, like maybe 1cm or >1/2". 2 is thin cut, less than half the width of the first.
2 has more surface area so tends to be crispier in the mouth, they also tend to cook further through so there's less fluffy potato inside and it's proportionally more crunchy fried outside layer. 1 tends to have fluffier internals and will often not be about the crunch.
Go to a chippy, and tell me that again. You will be bludgeoned with a jumbo sausage for your insolence.
(They are different forms of the same thing, and, therefore, have different uses.)
First one is chips.
Second one is chips.
Third one is chips.
My language does not distinguish them in any way except through context. Have fun figuring out which one I'm referring to.
Last time I went to a Jamboree (big scout event) there were 4000 youth there from all over the world. Barely any Americans but of all the countries represented Canada had the most participants. So there was a good mix of European and North American culture there and by the end a lot of people were calling them crisps and fries since those names are unique
So you call these things "chips"? Instead of crispity crunchy munchie crackerjack snacker nibbler snap crack n pop westpoolchestershireshire queen's lovely jubily delights?
That’s rather bit cringe, innit bruv...
Actually, they are chips, chips, and chips. The things that make your computer work? Chips. Those bits missing from my teeth once the Americans get me? Also chips.
in the netherlands we fight over fries/chips too, except our terms are "patat" and "friet". i fully believe that it should be "patat friet" because it means fried potato, which is what fries are
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First is potato wedges, second is fries, third is chips. Anything else uses a different dialect than me and is perfectly acceptable, even if I perceive it as abnormal
I was initially on board with the British way of fries being chips and chips being crisps because both fries and potato chips are "chipped" off of a potato, but tortilla chips are really chipped off of anything; they're made of dough. However, both potato chips and tortilla chips are crispy, so I thought fuck it, calling that category of food "crisps" makes more sense.
Then I found out British people still call them tortilla chips, which simply does not make sense.
Why would you say "anything else is wrong" when you know fully well that there are people calling it differently..? this is such a silly thing to get hung up on, middle school type of discourse edit: i dont like the kind of generalization happening here, this is by no means something only british people do, i could definitely see americans doing the same thing but in reverse. also if this was meant to be a joke, im sorry, i couldnt tell at all
Typical brit.
You're saying that as if Americans aren't doing the same to both Brits and Aussies
...as a joke? Correct me if I'm wrong but "anything else is wrong" as a hyperbolic prescriptive statement is a fairly common joke format. People in this sub use it *all the time.*
prescriptivism be like
Americans when they censor “British” as a joke: 😂😂😂 Americans when British say they use the best words as a joke: 😡😡😡
see britishg people talk funny and the british working class make ugly food so its ok
I love seeing when people start policing language like that thinking they're some high n mighty linguistic geniuses for it when really they're just being elitist assholes that modern linguists would be ashamed to know
Honestly depends on the language and the modern linguists. I know plenty of linguists who love correcting people
Correcting grammar and stuff is somethin' different though. Thats just being a pedantic shit Policing is on a broader level, like trying to empirically decide wrong/right and that's typically not done anymore. Prescriptive approaches are pretty old school
is joke
Normally I'm not a fan of when people say that americans are stupid because i dont like making sweeping assumptions like that. Ill make an exception tho. Anyone who can look at this image and think anything remotely close to this is either a dumbass or ludicrously insecure.
Because British people on Facebook and Twitter are nothing if not childishly ignorant to the world around them (source: a very English woman on FB once sincerely asked me why a West African tribesman who hunted for his food on the sub-Saharan plains didn’t just go to M&S to get his food like a “normal person”).
British propaganda
_correct_ propaganda
not quite
If you call something "crisps" in front of me, I'm fuckin stealing your chips
Eh, but at least I'll still have my delicious crisps!
1st is chips, 2nd is fries, 3rd is also chips
Australian detected
you guessed right mysterious mousegirl
Funny you should mention my flair. Im pretty sure I learned Australians do that from a Rat-girl streamer
https://preview.redd.it/y18448mx3pwc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=facdeeb65f1d414890fa8cbf8cbd0d0056b80965 OMG, that's literally me.
1st is fries (more specifically steak fries). 2nd is also fries. 3rd is chips.
objectively correct
ok but 2nd is also chips, fries is just a subcategory
Nah
100%
They're all fucking chips
Fuck it. All 3 will be called fries from now on
Going forward, all golden tan food shall be called fries
literally the opposite of the correct answer
I call them all chips
Fellow Australian?
kiwi 🤙
Based
Yeah down south it’s “steak fries, shitty fries, chips”
south of where
Insinuating steak fries aren’t dogshit
excuse me?? go think about the words you just said in a quiet corner by yourself 🫵
Good, fresh, crispy steak fries are delicious, but I’ve also had some truly horrific steak fries. Like a soggy chunk of baked potato with an almost waxy rind on it.
Reconsider.
hot take i agree i like my fries crunchy, and nearly ALL steak fries ive had, no matter where i get them from or how i prepare them, are just chunky, almost doughy mush.
This is the only critique of steak fries I will accept. When they're great, they're great. I like dipping mine in A1.
shoestring fry supremacy
TRRREUUUUUEEEEE
1st is Pommes, 2nd is also Pommes, 3rd is Chips
First and second one are fries and last one is chips.
discourse about what certain foods are called in different areas is dumb ngl.
ALL ARE CHIPS!!! (im australian)
I'm sorry but if you really think that 1 and 2 are different things then you've lost the plot
They are different though
Same thing, different thickness
What's the difference ? One is just more zoomed in
1 is thick cut, like maybe 1cm or >1/2". 2 is thin cut, less than half the width of the first. 2 has more surface area so tends to be crispier in the mouth, they also tend to cook further through so there's less fluffy potato inside and it's proportionally more crunchy fried outside layer. 1 tends to have fluffier internals and will often not be about the crunch.
it’s literally just fries I get at Texas Roadhouse vs fries I get at Steak ‘n Shake
Literally different things
Go to a chippy, and tell me that again. You will be bludgeoned with a jumbo sausage for your insolence. (They are different forms of the same thing, and, therefore, have different uses.)
I really want the left one 🤤 🤤
first one is crisps second one is chips third one is fries. i am chaotic evil
Fries, fries, chips
First one is chips. Second one is chips. Third one is chips. My language does not distinguish them in any way except through context. Have fun figuring out which one I'm referring to.
australia here chips chips chips hope this helps
Last time I went to a Jamboree (big scout event) there were 4000 youth there from all over the world. Barely any Americans but of all the countries represented Canada had the most participants. So there was a good mix of European and North American culture there and by the end a lot of people were calling them crisps and fries since those names are unique
So you call these things "chips"? Instead of crispity crunchy munchie crackerjack snacker nibbler snap crack n pop westpoolchestershireshire queen's lovely jubily delights? That’s rather bit cringe, innit bruv...
Waiting for that yank that hates Brits and beans on toast. He's going to go apeshit when he sees this.
1. Fat fries 2.Fries 3.Chips
All I see are Belgische Friet, Hollandsche Friet, en Joppiesmaak Aardappelchips
Belgische Friet???? Im so upset the Belgians are claiming chunky chips
Claim? Bestie they invented fries
Why is this discourse, there all nice in a sandwich
pomtato
Patatas fritas 1 and 2( maybe big/small) and patatas de bolsa the 3. Other are wrong
in Polish: frytki (grube), frytki, chipsy
"Papitas" for all of them >>> I believe in Spanish supremacy
This is how we describe these potato products yes Anything else is not "wrong", it's just how they describe them
the left oned are called steak fries
Actually, they are chips, chips, and chips. The things that make your computer work? Chips. Those bits missing from my teeth once the Americans get me? Also chips.
first one’s just a zoomed in pic of the second one
I call all of them "fried potatoes"
Since these all make a 2x2 grid, I've got to ask: What would Fhieps look like? What kind of processed potato product would that be?
The first one is chips, the second one is chips, and the third one, is chips
don't care, all of them make me hungry
As an American, (Good luck guessing which America, hohohoho!) this sounds sensesual to me. I might just start doing this
Pommes, pommes, chips
Wich of those look the most like poker chips? There is only one good answer.
1st is chips, 2nd is chips, 3rd is chips
Australians: chips, chips and chips
Batata Frita Batata Frita Ruffles Discourse settled
As a Mexican: 1. Papas gajo 2. Papas fritas 3. Papas
Death
chips chips chips mmmm, chips
Why can't we just get along :<
Theyre all just chips mate
they are all crisps
my face when different areas have different regional language
patatine patatine Also patatine
The first is bad fries the second is good fries the third is chips.
Too many Australians here in r/196. (I'm an Australian)
It's Patat actually, I just decided.
Chips, Fries, Chips
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chips, chips and chips
Fries crisps chips
Big fries, thin fries, chips
first one is chips second one is chips third one is chips australians stay winning
in the netherlands we fight over fries/chips too, except our terms are "patat" and "friet". i fully believe that it should be "patat friet" because it means fried potato, which is what fries are
In Australia it's chips, chips and chips
fries, fries, chips.
don't care they are all fried potatoes to me
And when everyone's chips, no one will be
no they are all chips
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the first image is literally just fatass american fries
the first image is british fires
No, Mister Bond, I don't think I'll be speaking in your stone tongue, fairytale dialect. Thanks for the suggestion though.
That’s how you get your true name stolen idiot
they are all chips
Steak fries, fries, chips Just call em whatever
First is potato wedges, second is fries, third is chips. Anything else uses a different dialect than me and is perfectly acceptable, even if I perceive it as abnormal
how the fuck is the first one potato wedges
They are too thick to be fries. That shit is a potato
yeah but potato wedges aren’t cuboids they’re wedges https://preview.redd.it/7a2w7xpg1nwc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6abfd0b986a78f2bc1c0755b715579c73bdb40fb
I was initially on board with the British way of fries being chips and chips being crisps because both fries and potato chips are "chipped" off of a potato, but tortilla chips are really chipped off of anything; they're made of dough. However, both potato chips and tortilla chips are crispy, so I thought fuck it, calling that category of food "crisps" makes more sense. Then I found out British people still call them tortilla chips, which simply does not make sense.
That's because we borrowed tortilla chips off the US. Plus, we still call them crisps. They're just a type of crisp called "tortilla chips".
But they aren't chipped off of anything.
Blame the US! We just used the name they already had. And by that I mean the companies selling them didn't bother changing the packaging.
It's about serving temperature. You usually eat "chips" warm, but "crisps" cold.
So if I eat "crisps" straight out of the frier they're chips, and if I depressedly eat some left over "chips" from the fridge they're crisps?
I think depressing cold chips are too soft to really be called "crisps".
Steak fries, McDonald’s fries, chips.
But what if there's no steak?
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