Chips, Not Fries
To British eyes, these are chips. You can tell they’re chips because they’re quite thick, they look like they were once a potato and (this is the giveaway) they’re lying next to a fried and battered fillet of fish:
Fish ‘n’ chips (Pic: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
However, these things here, the golden spindly fingers that look like what happens when the potato is mashed up and squeezed through a Play Doh-sized garlic press directly into a deep fat fryer (note: don’t actually do this unless you’re wearing splashback protection), these and their curly brethren are fries. Even the Brits have taken to calling them fries, having been forced to do so—with some personal embarrassment—when American fast food chains first arrived in the U.K.
(Pic: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
To British eyes, these are chips. You can tell they’re chips because they’re quite thick, they look like they were once a potato and (this is the giveaway) they’re lying next to a fried and battered fillet of fish:
Fish ‘n’ chips (Pic: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
However, these things here, the golden spindly fingers that look like what happens when the potato is mashed up and squeezed through a Play Doh-sized garlic press directly into a deep fat fryer (note: don’t actually do this unless you’re wearing splashback protection), these and their curly brethren are fries. Even the Brits have taken to calling them fries, having been forced to do so—with some personal embarrassment—when American fast food chains first arrived in the U.K.
(Pic: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)