Those English chips are not chips, they’re French fries, chips are big fat and juicy and should be slapped between white bread 😂

Canada too.

Meanwhile, all the continentals are arguing over who invented them.

Technically fries and still fries in the UK. Chips (in the British sense) are a while other thing is that America doesn't really do.

What in the hell is a cookie?

It's a bikkie

Don't forget my mate Chips. Lives down the road. Always in the boozer at 4:30 on a Friday. Lovely bloke, Chips.

It gets weird looking up recipes online for sweet potatoes, cassava and taro (I don't eat potato, so need guidance with these). I get different recipes if I use fries or chips, I don't use crisps!

In 65 years of living in aus it has never caused any confusion. When the chips are down.....

never confused as to whether it’s chips, or chips.

Ah! We're an uncomplicated country. Until you get to potato cake / potato scallop ...........

And chups in New Zealand

i use crisps, chips and fries. crisps often come from a packet labelled walkers. chips are fat cut and thick, roughly 10mm thickness or more. fries are thin cut, 5mm or less. i've not measured, just estimating. anything between 5mm and 10mm thick are whatever the bag they come in says.

I'm picturing you with a set of Vernier calipers, measuring a chip.....

Love this

Oh man, have you never had chips? Those fries labeled "chips"? They're fries, chips are bigger and wetter.

Not here they’re not. All our chips are crispy! We are not English.

Lol

100%.

We like to keep shit simple - chips and hot chips. It’s all potato and oil 😁

Yeah well crisps and fries are in fact potato chips so the correct answer is chips !!!

Ice cream!

Honestly they've got it right

What an odd remake of the Tom n Jerry version of this meme.

You just started another food fight 😂

So also in S Africa,

gonna eat all their chippies while they fight

priorities!

A packet of chips or hot chips!

Let us not mention biscuits.

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Here in New Zealand, the hot ones are called chips or hot chips. The cold ones are called chips or chippies.

Chups

Australia might want to sit out the "calling things weird names" swordfight...

In a restaurant in Wyoming the waitress was taking drinks orders, I asked for a white coffee. She glared at me like I had called her a ho. One of my American friends said 'He's from Australia, he wants a coffee with cream'. She gave me big side-eye when she left, LMAO.....

I've always wondered, and perhaps you would be kind enough to clear this up. Is it milk or cream, as we know it?

I don't know, but they have a dairy drink there called 'Half-and-Half' which is half milk & half cream and that was really good to put in coffee. I used to buy it from Albertsons supermarket.

A friend of mine from Australia once created a bit of a scandal by asking if a gym was oriented towards weights... (Imagine it in an Australian accent)...

That is so funny 😂

Did she really think you were asking for a "white person coffee"? 🙄

Are they potatoes cooked in oil? Then they’re chips. End of discussion

Unless they are big battered 10mm thick potatoes cooked in oil then you have an argument between states

By big 10mm thick do you mean scallop cut? And by battered and deep fried do you mean scallop fried? I'm only asking for clarification here.

Potato scallop is what it is.

This is what I was asking. Thanks for clarifying.

This is a scalloped potato. No batter or frying involved www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/recipe/bakin...

That's baked not fried.

That is how you cook potato scallops

I'm going to go with the rest off the world with this one. Sorry.

Look I just want to get served. Potato cakes and scallops gets confusing otherwise

If you think that’s Crazy go to Scarbourh in WA to “Peters by the Sea” thats a greek souvlaki and hamburger shop that has been there since I think the 1940s and ask for a hamburger.

Tell me more

Its a bit like the Koala holding chips & chips Scallop & Scallop in WA

In 75% of Australia that's how it works.

If I’m asking for scallops I want actual scallops

me too ! made from real potatoes !😇

We ask for potato scallops and scallops come roe on and roe off which varies.

Ha Ha

The way shop keeps know what you mean is we pronounce a potato “scallop” where as the white fleshy sea shelled meat we pronounce “scollop”

Sounds tricky

- sounds like Tassie and VIC are terribly confused and that South Australia has its head up its bum. 🙂 (😄)

I just ask for potato cakes 😜 or scallops if I want the seafood thing 😅

Potato Cakes are mashed potatoes with grated cheese and seasoning rolled in to a rissole, crumbed and fried. A scallop and a potato scallop are two different things.

I like the sound of those potato cakes

They do sound delicious, but we all know the potato cake/scallop is a regional thing, not a matter of life and death worth getting upset about 😊☮️

Me too

You would get a Latke potato cake in WA

A couple of years ago, I travelled to Victoria with my sister & her partner ~ we tried to tell him he had to ask for potato cakes, but he insisted on asking for scallops ~ so the Greek lady running the shop gave him sea scallops ~ the look on his face was priceless 🤣 Never argue with the Greek Mama!

I knew we would get a long thread In New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory, they are generally called potato scallops or simply scallops. In Victoria and Tasmania, they are typically referred to as potato cakes. South Australia favors 🧵

the term potato fritters. The Northern Territory is divided, with some calling them potato cakes and others potato scallops.

Yeah, potato scallops😂

😡

🤣

A continuing war

In Western Australia it’s potato scallop because a potato cake is a deconstructed potato either mashed or grated and then formed into a circular form often using an egg ring, not deep fried but on the griddle

Don’t remember ever having one when I lived there. Lucky thing.

If you had one you would remember

Ha ha

QLD agree potato scallop

Don’t you start

youtu.be/fQkNDCkioto

😀

Sort of like a Latke ?

Yep my mum made those but we just called them potato cakes and fish & Chip shops often used egg rings to make more space on the griddle

Patatas fritas

Me at a fair in England Can I get some hot chips thanks They’re just chips, love 🤣

Cheeps

Also Canada. Both are chips

and we always know which one is meant.

culture is a helluva drug