Japanese Potato Chip Famine.

[Forty Two]

You're so privileged, you aren't allowed to have the deep fryer you like. If you were a woman, you'd be marginalized by having the deep fryer.

[JimC]

I call 'em both chips; I don't fucking care if I'm being ambiguous, I always know in my heart of hearts which one I mean...

[laklak]

Fried hearts. Now there's an idea. Little chicken hearts, big beef hearts, medium long pig hearts...

[Scot Dutchy]

Maybe Mrs Lak is worried about your heart.

[mistermack]

When I was a kid, the little baskets made of super-thin wood strips that you got with fruit and veg were called chips.
Haven't seen that use lately though.

[Scot Dutchy]

How did they taste?

[PsychoSerenity]

Crisps are crispy. They're thin enough to be crisped right through because they're sliced. A chip is something that's been chopped and is therefore thicker. So chips can be crisped on the outside but soft and fluffy in the middle.

[Scot Dutchy]

That is an anglo-saxon fallacy.

[PsychoSerenity]

After Brexit, when Great Britain gets its empire back, it'll be treason to suggest otherwise!*





*I may not really believe this.

[Svartalf]

chips and fries, Go Merkins

[Forty Two]

[Svartalf]

Far too late, short of doing a lot of nuking

[Scot Dutchy]

chips and fries, Go Merkins

No I will stay with patat and chips. Americans are unable to make either.

[mistermack]

If you look at it logically, the word chips comes from wood chips.

Wood chips are not like crisps, they are thick like chips.
Crisps are more like wood shavings. Which is what they were originally called.

What do Americans call Pork Scratchings?

[Forty Two]

Americans, or just particular fast food joints?

Is this another case of you comparing the best quality offerings of your country with the lesser quality items in the US?

This occurs with beer, when Brits say "ewwww Budweiser..it's pisswater -- Merkins don't know how to make beer... look at our [insert premium level beer here] ...sooo much better", all the while ignoring the fact that they buy and drink plenty of pisswater beer brands themselves.

But, alas, the Dutch must claim to be "the best" at everything, and while chewing they can pontificate against "American exceptionalism." Anyway, the Dutch have nothing on the Canadians. Give me a good plate of poutine any day of the week. Deeeee-lish!