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Originally Posted by orlok
"French Fries" to you Americans, "Chips" to us Brits. What you call "Chips", we call "Crisps." So yes, the long skinny ones is what I was talking about having mayo on.
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When I studied in the UK the people running the bar at the Student Union took perverse pleasure to serving chips to new Dutch students. We call crisps "chips" and it was always fun when an unsuspecting student came back from the bar confused after ordering chips and was told it would be brought out to him later. Because why would it take so long to get a bag of chips, right. Their face when they got served a basket of UK chips was always priceless.
The ladies at the university refectory were a bit more forgiving and always explained what the difference was, and then tried to talk you into not only getting a serving of chips for lunch or dinner but also a serving of baked beans. They thought we Dutch students were too skinny and needed proper English food to fatten us up
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