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What is the British saying for french fries?
The British call "french fries" "Chips".
What do people from Scotland call french fries?
Chips
Why do the British call fries chips?
We call them chips because there basically chips of a potato. Similarly what you call chips or potato chips we call crisps because you fry them to a crisp... If anything you Americans should call your "fries" chips because they are chips and your "potato chips" crisps because there fried to a crisp! +++ Also [French] Fries are usually cut thinner than British chips, so are not quite the same thing.
What really are fish and chips?
Fish and chips ... really is fish and chips. The fish is usually cod/haddock in batter or breadcrumbs. Chips are (what Americans call) fries.
What country is chips called french fries and french fries are called Chips?
I believe it is England.
What are potato chips called in Great Britain?
We call them 'chips' in other countries they are known as 'fries' or 'French fries' the confusion arises in America, American 'chips' are what the British call 'crisps' a very thin slice of potato deep fried until crisp and golden.
What is the british name for french fries?
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.
Who named french fries?
"French fries" is an Americanism, and no one knows who first used the term. In Britain they are called chips. What the British call crisps are called potato chips by the Americans. The French call French fries pommes de frits, i.e. fried potatoes.
What do they call french fries in Britain?
In Germany we have adopted the French term and call them (die) Pommes frites (pronounced 'pom-FRIT'). They are also nicknamed Pommes (now with a German pronunciation POM-muhs) in most of German or Fritten (pronounced FRIT-n) in areas closer to the Belgian/French border.
How many calories are in french fries vs potato chips?
potato chips because french fries soak up more oil
How do you say potato in vietnamese?
Use a Vietnamese/English dictionary...but in Australia they call French Fries potato chips.
What are potato chips called in England if french fries are called chips?
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.
