Japanese Potato Chip Famine.

[tattuchu]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them? Surely that's the only thing that truly matters. Scot?

[Hermit]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them?

Aardappelklompen

[tattuchu]

What confuses me is when Brits say garden when they mean lawn or yard. But how do they distinguish between the two in conversation? What if they're actually talking about the garden?

"I was in the garden and William called out to me--"
"Hang on, Mary. When you say garden, what do you mean?"
"Pardon?"
"Well, what I mean to say is, do you mean garden or garden?"
"Garden."
"Yes. But garden...or garden."
"Garden."
"Yes, of course. But garden...or garden garden."
"Ah, I see. Sorry, dear. I meant I was in the garden."
"I'm still not--"
"Garden"
Yes,but--"
"Garden."
"Yes, but I'm still not--"
"Garden."
"But--"
"Oh for fucksake, Ethel, it's perfectly clear."
"There's no need for that sort of--"
"Right. Listen. I'll make it plain as day. I was in the garden, yes? Then William called out to me. I stepped out of the garden, walked through the garden, and--"
"Wait, so where's William in all this?"
"In the garden!"
"Hold on, hold on. When you say garden, do you mean garden, garden, or garden garden?"
"Ethel, do you even understand the Queen's English??"
"No, it's just that--"
"Oh, sod off!"
"Wait. Sod? Are we still talking about the garden, or--?"
*Mary storms off...back to the garden*

[tattuchu]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them?

Aardappelklompen

I thought you were joking but now I'm not so sure. I did a Google search and images of potatoes came up

[NineBerry]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them?

Aardappelklompen

Close. Aardappelchips.

[NineBerry]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them?

Aardappelklompen

I thought you were joking but now I'm not so sure. I did a Google search and images of potatoes came up

Aardappel is Dutch for potatoe. It literally means "Earth Apple", i.e. apples that grow in the ground. The same concept exists in some German dialects. "Erdapfel" meaning "Earth Apple", an apple that grows in the ground. In my own dialect, the word for potatoe is "Grumbeere", which means "Ground Pear", a pear that grows in the ground. The official German word "Kartoffel" basically comes from the Italian word for "small truffle".

[Hermit]

Yes, but what do the Dutch call them?

Aardappelklompen

I thought you were joking but now I'm not so sure. I did a Google search and images of potatoes came up

Aardappel, like the French Pomme de Terre, means potato (literally, earth apple or apple of the earth). The Dutch manufacture potato chips by treading on them with Klompen.

Edit: On yer bike, Neunbeeren.

[Svartalf]

except the french 'pomme' is ambiguous, deriving as it does from Latin 'pomum' : 'fruit'... ergo, pomme de terre might just mean 'earth fruit'
then again, in France, the apple is the fruit par excellence

[NineBerry]

Well

apple (n.) Look up apple at Dictionary.com
Old English æppel "apple; any kind of fruit; fruit in general," from Proto-Germanic *ap(a)laz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch appel, Old Norse eple, Old High German apful, German Apfel), from PIE *ab(e)l- "apple" (source also of Gaulish avallo "fruit;" Old Irish ubull, Lithuanian obuolys, Old Church Slavonic jabloko "apple"), but the exact relation and original sense of these is uncertain (compare melon).

In Middle English and as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts (such as Old English fingeræppla "dates," literally "finger-apples;" Middle English appel of paradis "banana," c. 1400). Hence its grafting onto the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one Old English work, are eorþæppla, literally "earth-apples" (compare French pomme de terre "potato," literally "earth-apple;" see also melon). French pomme is from Latin pomum "apple; fruit" (see Pomona).

As far as the forbidden fruit is concerned, again, the Quran does not mention it explicitly, but according to traditional commentaries it was not an apple, as believed by Christians and Jews, but wheat. ["The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity," Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2002]

[Scot Dutchy]

Yep Nine.

Aardappel chips. Not that many flavours though and nothing like Britain. For years we only had natural and paprika. Now there are a few more especially the British hand made ones are very popular.

[NineBerry]

Well, this one is out in Germany at the moment...

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[Scot Dutchy]

Really!! OMG.

[tattuchu]

I don't generally get flavored chips. A good chip doesn't need extra flavoring. However, occasionally I'll get one I found recently that's olive oil & pepper

My favorite kind of chip is the kind that are so thick and crunchy they make my gums bleed

[Forty Two]

Most of the English speaking world says "chips" for potato chips - the US, Canada, Oz, etc.

Doesn't make it right. Most of the world says gay, when they know that the right word is homosexual.

Britain said crisps because we already knew the proper meaning of chips.

And soccer was slang to a few posh schoolboys, the country always said football of course. And it was only posh schoolboys that ever said rugger.

The British say "crisps" because they're gay, as are posh schoolboys and soccer.

[laklak]

I made my own the other day when I had the deep fryer out. Used a deli slicer to get uniformly thin slices. They were really, really, really tasty.

Why won't Mrs. Lak let me have a commercial 40 pound deep fryer? So many things to fry, so little room in the home fryer.