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? for the UK folks. what do u call chips.
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:48 PM UTC
The family and I were sitting around talking the other day and the topic came up that they call fried potatoes "chips" in the UK and someone asked... well then what do they call Potato chips, so thats the question in the Uk what do you call potato chips.....

LOL...

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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:51 PM UTC
Crisps
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:55 PM UTC
Kartoffel chips ....

Guess what "kartoffel" means
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 06:12 PM UTC
Crisps of course.

Kartoffel... i know this one. It's potato!
Ahh. I knew German would be useful.
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 11:32 PM UTC
Crisps, a chip is what you call french fries only fatter and should be served with salt and malt vinegar and if your chip shop has style and taste they would be served in newspaper.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 12:13 AM UTC

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Crisps, a chip is what you call french fries only fatter and should be served with salt and malt vinegar and if your chip shop has style and taste they would be served in newspaper.


Malt vinegar!
Blech!
You Poms drown y'chips in that muck.

Tomato sauce is the only True Accompaniment to a fistfull of sggy, fatty, deep fried potato chunks...

acav out
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 12:25 AM UTC
chips salt and vinegar piece of cod in newspaper walking home after a few pints of john smiths gentlemen theres no finer food in the world
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 12:38 AM UTC

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chips salt and vinegar piece of cod in newspaper walking home after a few pints of john smiths gentlemen theres no finer food in the world

Sounds pretty darn good to me.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 12:58 AM UTC
Yes it's true its crisps but only the potato ones not the corn ones.
And chips lovely but not all us english like vinegar. In europe they are often served with mayonaise.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 03:48 AM UTC

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Sounds pretty darn good to me.


same here
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 05:57 AM UTC
Mayonaisse with chips.

mmmmmmmmmm
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 06:59 AM UTC
Palisade Amusement Park......
French fries-salt-vinegar..... Perfect together.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 07:06 AM UTC
If you're a true Northerner you have your chips with gravy & mushy peas. As for "John Smiths", you can keep that Gnats p*** & make mine a Theakston's Old Peculier, thanks.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 09:39 AM UTC
Chips are best with Mayonnaise and Sate sauce... some raw chopped onion on top.. Hmmmmm

Perfect to go with fresh, raw salted Herring, although Cod is an acceptable alternative. Especially as you can not get fresh, raw salted Herring in the U.K.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 09:41 AM UTC
Oh, and Vinegar should only be used for cleaning windows....

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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 10:13 AM UTC
I am going to argue that there is nothing finer at 3 in the mornin' than an Allsup's belly bomb. If you have had one, you know what I am talking about. Any other time of the day it's like eating rocks, but for some reason, 3 AM makes them dang tasty.
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I am going to argue that there is nothing finer at 3 in the mornin' than an Allsup's belly bomb. If you have had one, you know what I am talking about. Any other time of the day it's like eating rocks, but for some reason, 3 AM makes them dang tasty.


Ohh, along those lines, there is a Dutch snack, called a 'Frikandel' (not to be confused with the German 'Frikadele' btw), which consists chiefly of the butchery leftovers, minced up, turned into a long sausage shape, and deep fried. The occassional crunchy bit adds authenticity... . These are eaten with mayonnaise and ketchup, or with mayo and curry sauce. I had never eaten one of those, untill I was coming down with a serious case of fever, whilst on an
excersise in December '89. Whilst waiting for transport to the sick bay on our own barracks, the mess had obtained a supply of said snacks at a local Snackbar.
With my fever running 40 centigrade, and not having eaten anything for nearly two days, I succumbed and had one, as the smell actually restored some resemblance of appetite. The contraption tasted like the finest food you could think of, but I have never had another one since..

Cheers
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 03:15 PM UTC

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Any other time of the day it's like eating rocks, but for some reason, 3 AM makes them dang tasty.


Hmm, 3AM, would the previous consumption of alcoholic beverages be involved in this...
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 04:44 PM UTC
Henk, that sounds um... tasty?

The local chippie round here makes the best chips and cheese this side of the equator.
Mild cheddar cheese, crunchy chips, a dab of mayonaisse, splash of ketchup and a pinch of salt.

(probably does bugger all for one's health mind you.)
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 05:16 PM UTC
There are some really good snacks in Holland, some that I miss are Kroketten (especially Sate kroketten...), Shoarma (not to be confused with a Kebab... ), and the best of all, Indonesian food.

Hmm, time for a holiday back to 'the old country' I think..
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 07:20 AM UTC
I must have been doing it all wrong back when...close the bars then go to white castle for some "sliders"...
"Mayo on fries"?!...hmmmm, not me, that would be like putting ketchup on a hotdog{it's a chicago thing}. I'll take my jack daniels brats and kicker brats with alittle kraut and mustard thank you...but to each his own.
Now you guys got me all hungry with all this talk of food...I'm heading up for a bowl of Cheese popcorn and catch the rest of Lost.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 10:21 AM UTC
In SA crisps are called chips and french fries are called "slap chips" - loosely translated as "limp chips" as that's what they should be like... limp, hot, covered in salt and vinegar... nothing like slap chips, a piece of deep fried stock fish or hake on a bread roll with peri-peri sauce... oh, and it must be made in a Portuguese fish shop!! Hmmmmm, salivating already and I've just had breaky...
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 06:13 PM UTC

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Crisps, a chip is what you call french fries only fatter and should be served with salt and malt vinegar and if your chip shop has style and taste they would be served in newspaper.


Malt vinegar!
Blech!
You Poms drown y'chips in that muck.

Tomato sauce is the only True Accompaniment to a fistfull of sggy, fatty, deep fried potato chunks...






















acav out



A pedant writes:

Tomato ketchup is made using - you guessed it - vinegar !

Gravy on chips - that is just sooo wrong

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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 02:45 AM UTC

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If you're a true Northerner you have your chips with gravy & mushy peas. As for "John Smiths", you can keep that Gnats p*** & make mine a Theakston's Old Peculier, thanks.

theakstons old perculier funny thought that was for the ladies
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