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No! We only use "crisps" for what you call potato chips.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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If the thin slices of potato are deep fried, they are known as 'crisps' in the UK.
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