What do british people call chips

Improve this question. Sven Yargs k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Alvar Alvar 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Do you really mean to say "term for the word"? That doesn't sound right at all. I once ordered Fish and chips in Canada.

What I got was fried fish and 'wafers' not French Fries. The thrust of this question would be clearer if you specified where you want to use the word. I assume that you are asking "What is the correct term [in some specified country or region] for the food item that people in the United States call 'potato chips'?

By the way, when I lived in Calgary, Alberta, in the early s, a request for "chips and gravy" at a restaurant there yielded a plate of french fries and small dish of thin brown sauce.

Now I suppose someone will ask what "hash browns" are, and "American fries". Since I asked this question. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Stefano Palazzo Stefano Palazzo 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. In the UK, potato chips never means the things we call crisps. Normally [potato] chips are the things you eat hot with fried battered fish, for example.

But sometimes particularly when "potato" is specified it means those snacky things that come in packets, cm long, with mm square cross-section, made of reconstituted potato powder, air, and oil I have no idea whether they can meaningfully be said to have been "fried". If anything "potato crisp" would be least ambiguous, because it is potato that has been thinly sliced then fried to a crisp. At no point is it ever chipped!

I think someone asked me what I had for breakfast that started this diskussion! Show 4 more comments. EDIT: Chips can also be bought frozen to cook in the oven. Barrie England Barrie England k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. The latest on travel, languages and culture by EF Education First. Back Topics. By Tom F. Chips Think you know how to order French fries in Britain? Uni Want to study at a university in the UK? Skive Maybe you did get into your favorite uni, but you keep faking illness to get out of classes.

Tags: English , Vocabulary , Slang , British. Study abroad after high school in London Learn more. We'd love to stay in touch Get the latest on travel, languages and culture with our newsletter. Sign me up. Thank you! Yes, what Americans refer to as french fries are known in England as chips. I believe it is England. Log in. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. Study guides. Q: Why do the British call fries chips?

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What is the british name for french fries? How do you say french fries in British? What does the British word 'chips' mean? What do the English call french fries? Don't order a tortilla in Spain if you're looking for the Mexican flatbread. And if you want a filling, egg-based meal in Italy, ask for a frittata. The name of the dish derives from the verb " friggere " to fry. What Americans call oatmeal is known as "porridge" in the UK and Ireland. In fact, a rice porridge called congee is a staple in countries throughout Asia.

In the UK and other Commonwealth countries, people refer to what Americans call a zucchini by its French name: courgette. According to the BBC America blog Anglophenia , the original name stuck when Italian immigrants introduced the veggie to Americans because it was easy to say without being Anglicized. Brits also use the French word for what Americans call an eggplant: aubergine.

Although you may think that cilantro and coriander are two different herbs, they're part of the same plant. Though "coriander" refers to the seeds of the herb, it's commonly used to describe the entire plant in the UK. If you're from America, you probably associate the word "rocket" with astronauts and outer space, but it's also an alternate name for what you call arugula, used in the UK and beyond.

Both words have origins in Italy.