Crisps i think
French fries (American Term) are called chips in the UK. If you ask for chips in the US you will get what the British refer to as crisps.
Potato chips/fries or potato chips/crispsThat depends what kind of chips you mean. People in the UK and the US sometimes mean different things. There are two types of potato chips. There are hot potato chips, also called fries, which are made from thick or thin strips of potato (if they are very thin strips they are often called french fries).There are also (usually) cold potato chips (snacks) also called a potato crisps (sometimes called game chips when served with roast game birds), which are made from thin slices of potato.For more information about both type of chips, and to see photographs of each (so you can be sure), please see the Wikipedia page links, further down this page, listed under Related Links. Alternatively, for the calories in cold potato chips/crisps, or the calories in hot chips/fries, see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions..
I believe it is England.
SIM chips
because they are little chips of the potato not big chunks
Potato chips are called "chips" because in British English, the word "chips" refers to thick slices of potatoes that have been fried or baked until crispy. In American English, "chips" usually refer to thinly sliced potatoes that have been fried until crispy, hence why they are called potato chips.
It's historical. Pasta came from Italy. *Chips are called French fries in USA, Pommes Frites in France , and eating Chips with pasta is not really done. Chips or Potato Chips in USA are called Crisps in UK.
In Welsh, chips are called "sbeis."
They are called eproms or eeproms
They're called Crisps. I agree i went to France and the chips were called crips because my brother went France on school trip and he asked for crisps and they have him chips! +++ There's also a slight difference in that British potato-chips are cut thicker than French Fries, and their surfaces are not fried to crispness so the inner should be tender but still firm. The version sold by MacDonalds, in the UK at least, is very thin and crispy to hard. For some perverse reason at least one UK-based crisp manufacturer has been labelling its packets sold in the UK "Potato Chips" (in the US sense) for a few years.
Kettle Chips
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