Chips. Of potatoes. Makes Sense In Context.
Now... why do you spell words wierdly? Like meter instead of metre and liter instead of litre and generalize for generalise?
edited 21st Jun '11 8:40:52 PM by Inhopelessguy
I spell how it sounds.
Metre sounds like Metrey on paper while Meter sounds like it's spelled. More logical.
Also, how do you avoid confusion from actual potato chips? Like Lays Potato Chips, not French Fries.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:43:42 PM by TheProffesor
Oh My
I use whatever spelling I prefer the look of. So grey theatres analyze meters.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
^^^ Cause we're American. We got a history of rebelling against British things.
Except Iron Maiden, Monty Python, Dr. Who, and a few other things. We love those.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:44:11 PM by MarkVonLewis
We assimilate other cultures into our own.
If we put our minds to it, we could be like the Borg.
Because they're made of chips of potatoes?
I always differentiated between fries and chips, anyway. To me fries are slimmer and come with burgers while chips are chunkier and come with battered fish.
EDIT - "Potato Chips" are crisps. Because they're crispy.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:45:21 PM by TheBatPencil
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
We call chips chips because when inventing them, they WERE chips.
To make that make sense, the potato chip (american parlance) was invented because someone was complaining that the chips that a chip-vendor was selling (UK parlance) were too thick. So he sliced them extra thin to spite him, but he ended up making crisps (UK Parlance) and we kept the name of Chips (American parlance).
that make sense?
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryWait, so Lay's Potato Chips would be classified as fries and fries would be considered chips?
That's as messed up as your driving on the left side of the road.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:47:04 PM by TheProffesor
What's a French fire? 
On topic, different words for the same thing. It isn't that big a deal. I think "chips" like Lays and stuff are called "crisps" over there, but I'm not sure. Am I right?
Ninja'd. Seems I'm right.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:47:36 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Alright, I'm confused - what's a Lay's Potato Chip?
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Your 'chips' are called Crisps. Your 'fries' are called 'chips'.
Also, metre and litre are French. You don't screw with people's languages!
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Lay's are Walker's Crisps.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:49:01 PM by Inhopelessguy
Oh My
French fire: It is a small blue fire that Americans enjoy eating.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:49:06 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
Its a chip/Crisp created by a company called Frito Lays.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
This foreboding is fa...
I have a question, how can you have the word "mete", as in "mete out justice", and still spell meter (which sounds like mete+er) as metre?
Boggles the mind.
Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.
Which is known here as Walker's Crisps. But with different flavours (I think)
METRE is French. We stole it from the French.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:49:58 PM by Inhopelessguy
This is messed up. Remind me to not go to Britain.
Left is probably right there...
We drive on the left.
Chips are also known by that name by Canadians, Australians, South Africans, pretty much everywhere except those poor islands under the rule of a Tyrannical monarch forcing them to use the word crisps.
Clearly you need a revolution.
PARTY HARD!!!!
And is "chip" any weirder than french fry?
Also, I really want to try a french fire now...
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD
Why FRENCH fries? That's stupid.
Oh My
None of these differences are why I will not go to this Europe place. It is the lack of a significant Thai population whose authentically prepared food I can devour. And wats.
...unless you guys have Thais in large enough numbers to have traditional wats and so on.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:52:13 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan ChahBROTHERS!!!
Arm yourselves! On this day chips will be known as french fries in all of the UK!
Viva La French Fries!
Technically they are "french-fried potatoes" but yeah, THAT would be stupid. The only thing close to that level of stupidity is liberty fries.
Let us be glad that nonsense is past.
http://www.millhill.derbyshire.sch.uk/blog/?p=637
<- chips, called so because they're made from chips of a potato.
http://parksfacts.blogspot.com/2010/10/potato-chips.html <- these are crisps, for they are crispy.
Bloody colonials. There should be a tax on this sort of thing.
edited 21st Jun '11 8:53:02 PM by TheBatPencil
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Never could figure that out.