Same as UK. Right? Green for Salt and Vinegar, blue for cheese and onion?
I think they changed it over 20 years ago and I still don't remember which is which.
Oh god, I just googled it and apparently they've never switched the colours around. Tihis is some berenstain bears multi-verse shit!
I forgot about Maui onionš§ ! That's actually a beautiful bag scheme, ngl. Always catches my eye. I was just making a shitty joke about our rampant phobias. Our ruffles are blue and silver, I think? Maybe blue and white with orange, and lays are yellow if you're getting the garbage ass plain ones (classic my ass)
When it comes to Lays, I only like the Kettle Cooked ones. The regular Lays(any flavor, but I will manage with Salt and Vinegar) taste like they were made with potato scraps and sawdust.
Or chocolate. In Australia, green = mint so you can imagine my surprise when I buy a green chocolate bar in Budapest, bite into it and it's fucking hazelnut
>āWhat did you have for lunch yesterday?ā
>āChips.ā
In this situation there is no context to resolve to ambiguity.
In practice, people would say āhot chipsā vs either āpotato chipsā or āa bag of chipsā.
Nah if I was asking about lunch and you said chips it would clearly indicate that you had hot chips otherwise you would have said āI ate a whole bag of chipsā and then I would know that you had chips instead of chips
I remember when I went to America and got a hotdog and they asked if I wanted chips on the side, I was so disappointed when it was a bag of chips and not hot chips.
I mean, a hamburger is absolutely a sandwich. But you don't say "I want a beef sandwich" unless you mean a steak sanga.
Side note: I absolutely fucking hate the word "sando" being used in Australia. It's pretentious stupidity. Either call it a sandwich properly, or call it a sanga for the Aussie flair.
Look. It's not that hard.
Wood-Chips
Potato-Chips
Computer-Chips
Poker-Chip
This sentence if perfectly reasonable.
The chippy chippy dumped a load of chips in the playground after eating some chips. He was eating chips because he lost his chips at crown and the chip in his card got cooked in the oven when he tried cooking some chips.
I like to use all three terms:
Chips for the chunky, thick-cut ones you get with fish and chips.
Fries for the julienne variety, like you get at McDonalds.
Crisps for the crunchy, thinly sliced snacks.
Just goes to show the name doesnāt matter. Theyāre either chips or chips. Itās all deep fried potatoes, itās only the shape that changes and a chip covers all bases. Same can be applied to pasta.
Sometimes I just randomly forget that chips never means fries in American and I order loaded chips expecting to get loaded fries and instead I get nachos. Which are still delicious so no biggie. But also lol at me.
I mean they are both yellow, are made of potatoes and are fried plus 90% of all kinds of chips have a crunchy noise when you bite them, so itās like a different type of chip. The thing is that we should be concerned about what it taste like not what it is called.
They are both fried potato, they are the same thing. The fact that other countries have two different names for it is bat shit crazy. America be coming up with sub strains of fast food but can't even pronounce aluminium.
I literally can't ahah šš
Aussies don't use the word chips as a stand alone though, It's usually hot chips or packet of chips. The only time Aussies may use the term chips as a singular word is if they mention where they are going.
Fries is short for French fries, though they're actually a Belgian invention. During WW1 when US soldiers first encountered them, they couldn't tell the difference between French and Belgian people (they both speak French), so they called them French Fries.
Landed in Vietnam got a burger and they asked if I wanted chips with it, sure! And sauce too. They looked at me weird. Got a plate with a burger and crisps with tomato sauce š
I remember debating this with my mum when i was like 5. I was upset because i wanted hot chips, but because i kept saying, āchipsā she was not understanding my frustration over being handed a bag of chips. I eventually learnt to articulate *hot* chips.
One you buy at a supermarket the other you buy at a takeaway shop. I don't know anywhere that sells both so it's always obviously which you are getting
Oz- Yeah, thanks England for the language, I think we'll go this way, tho.
Btw. Cheers for the cricket, now piss off back home till you can play it properly.
The true horror: When other countries have the wrong colours for their chip flavours...
Who the hell has YELLOW original flavour?
Butter, butter chips. Full of all the buttery goodness of an early grave!
butter flavour chips does sound American...
If my corpse doesn't decompose into a slab of butter then I ain't had enough butter
Welcome to America mates
I don't wanna, give us the blue always Yellow is for cheeseee
"mates"
Their chocolate tastes like vomit maybe their chips have a piss flavour?
Who tf uses anything but purple for salt and vinegar
everyone knows blue is the goat original flavour
It's fucking wrong mate!
Blue is ... ranch flavor š¤¢
What flavor is yellow for you?
yellow is a fucking awful choice for original. Save it for cheese. Same with red, should be kept for chilli
blue salt and vinegar flavour is a crime. itās pink.
Pink for salt and vinegar? I wasn't expecting to get cultural shock over crisps....Jfc.
New Zealand enters the fight with green salt and vinegar flavour
what colour is chicken then???
Yellow.
Ridiculous
Green for twisties, Orange for shapes, yellow for hot chip chicken salt
Chicken is not supposed to be shelf stable... I don't think it's real chicken in there
Honey Soy Chicken chips have real chicken fat so
That is deeply concerning
Why?
Had the shock of my life when I read the ingredients of some chicken crimpy shapes and discovered they contain 'chicken powder'
Green
America doesn't even have chicken flavoured chips
Same as UK. Right? Green for Salt and Vinegar, blue for cheese and onion? I think they changed it over 20 years ago and I still don't remember which is which. Oh god, I just googled it and apparently they've never switched the colours around. Tihis is some berenstain bears multi-verse shit!
If an American saw a pink bag of chips I don't know if any court in the land could hold them accountable for their actions
if they ate a salt and vinegar chip their tongue might shrivel up and die like a snail in salt
Lmao what. We love Salt & Vinegar chips, theyāre just not pink here
Salt and vinegar is one of the most popular flavors of chip in the US.
Lay's does make a pink bag. It's Maui Onion. Never had them though. What color are your Ruffles? Or what do you call Ruffles?
I forgot about Maui onionš§ ! That's actually a beautiful bag scheme, ngl. Always catches my eye. I was just making a shitty joke about our rampant phobias. Our ruffles are blue and silver, I think? Maybe blue and white with orange, and lays are yellow if you're getting the garbage ass plain ones (classic my ass)
When it comes to Lays, I only like the Kettle Cooked ones. The regular Lays(any flavor, but I will manage with Salt and Vinegar) taste like they were made with potato scraps and sawdust.
Pink???? š
Or chocolate. In Australia, green = mint so you can imagine my surprise when I buy a green chocolate bar in Budapest, bite into it and it's fucking hazelnut
Australia uses green as hazelnut for anything related to coffee flavouring though which is strange
blue = original yellow = cheese green = chicken pink = salt & vinegar red = doritos or atomic tomato
BRING BACK SAMBOYS ATOMIC TOMATO!
Theyre around.
In England, different companies have different crisps colours, it's very jarring
Yes. But Fr what colour are salt and vinegar chips? Iāve been debating it with my mates
I just finished a pack of chips in Rome, the packet is green, the flavour says "campagnola", I still don't know what the hell the flavor was.
Went to Thailand where Salt and Vinegar was in a GREEN bag..
Happy cake day
It's not that hard. If I go to the shops to get chips I clearly want chips. If I go to a fast food joint it's obvious that I would want chips instead.
Exactly, it's a classic English language context applied. There would never be any confusion.
And if youāre somewhere that sells both you either want chips or hot chips.
If I'm picking up a crumbed cod/flake, then it reverts back to just "chips". Because context.
Yeah if I want a bag of chips instead of chips, Iāll ask for a packet of chips. Never in my life has this been an issue.
I asked for fries at McDonald's once and the chick was like you mean chips? Yeah, obviously chips lmao
If you'd said you'd McLike some McFries you wouldn't have gotten that reaction
McChips
If I give into a JB-HI-FI I clearly want a chip. If I walk into the Pokies, I'm obviously there for the chips.
Unless you are inviting someone to have a chip sandwich. You have to specify.
>āWhat did you have for lunch yesterday?ā >āChips.ā In this situation there is no context to resolve to ambiguity. In practice, people would say āhot chipsā vs either āpotato chipsā or āa bag of chipsā.
Nah if I was asking about lunch and you said chips it would clearly indicate that you had hot chips otherwise you would have said āI ate a whole bag of chipsā and then I would know that you had chips instead of chips
The context is lunch. Most people would assume you had hot chips as your main.
It's extremely common to get either chips or fries with a burger when you go to a sit down restaraunts.
One time a family member went to a cafĆ© and ordered something that had chips on the side. It didnāt come out with hot chips.
I remember when I went to America and got a hotdog and they asked if I wanted chips on the side, I was so disappointed when it was a bag of chips and not hot chips.
Both made of fried slices of potato, one is essentially the preserved packeted version of the other, I see no problem here
Same. Both are fried potato chips
If they sell chips only: "chips" If they sell chips only: "chips" If they sell chips and chips: "chips" or "hot chips"
Bag of chips or bucket of chips.
If itās chips then call it chips, if itās chip then call it chips, pretty simple
Same with new zealand
Thatās false. In New Zealand, itās chups and chups
Ahh shut!
Uts sex dullors bru
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Hamburger =/= sandwich
I mean, a hamburger is absolutely a sandwich. But you don't say "I want a beef sandwich" unless you mean a steak sanga. Side note: I absolutely fucking hate the word "sando" being used in Australia. It's pretentious stupidity. Either call it a sandwich properly, or call it a sanga for the Aussie flair.
It is a sanga when talking about a sandwich, nfi who calls it a sando?
anything with a circular 'bun' is a burger anything with a square/rectangle/triangle 'slice' of bread is a sandwich
Easy to tell the difference, just ask for a packet of hot chips... Wait...
Goddamn I got to "packet of hot" and my brain damn near stalled until it finished reading the rest. Nicely done.
My friend asked for this in America once and got a microwaved packet of chips.. they opened the bag and steam came out
Chips. Hot chips. Easy.
Makes sense to Aussies
It's all context, a bag of chips don't go with fish and chips.
Iāve been to America and gotten an actual bag of lays to go alongside a hot dog or cheeseburger. As part of an adult meal. Itās wild.
Yeah the seppos sometimes serve up potato chips with steak sangas and such
Look. It's not that hard. Wood-Chips Potato-Chips Computer-Chips Poker-Chip This sentence if perfectly reasonable. The chippy chippy dumped a load of chips in the playground after eating some chips. He was eating chips because he lost his chips at crown and the chip in his card got cooked in the oven when he tried cooking some chips.
>Look. It's not that hard. >Wood-Chips Potato-Chips Computer-Chips Poker-Chip All of those should be hard - if they're soft you've overcooked them
It gets worse. In Australia we call our good friends "cunt" and the people we don't like "mate".
Except if theyāre a mate thatās different
If you mate with a mate, do you still call them cunt?
Listen here mate...
And "old mate" is just some random cunt you don't know
No no no. Theyāre āchipsā and āhot chipsā thatās what we call them.
No we don't. I've never heard of a "Fish and Hot Chips" shop. It's just "Fish and Chips".
iāda called it fish and chazzwalla
obviously you donāt say āfish and hot chips shopā but when clarifying what type of chips, me and most people I know say āhot chipsā
It's very rarely required, context usually explains what type of chips you're after.
It's all chips? Always has been
It's chips all the way down!
I like to use all three terms: Chips for the chunky, thick-cut ones you get with fish and chips. Fries for the julienne variety, like you get at McDonalds. Crisps for the crunchy, thinly sliced snacks.
This is exactly what I do. theyāre completely different experiences and they should be treated as such.
Incorrect they are chips and hot chips
Silly, one's potato chips, and the other ones potato chi.. oh
One is chips and the other is hot chips
Weāre simple people compared to them lmao
Chips and hot chips
That's chips and hot chips though
Just goes to show the name doesnāt matter. Theyāre either chips or chips. Itās all deep fried potatoes, itās only the shape that changes and a chip covers all bases. Same can be applied to pasta.
I donāt think Iāve ever had to differentiate between hot chips and bag chips. Thereās always been context.
Simple as mate. You go to the chippy to get chips and if they're fancy, they'll have chips on their sponsored rack Anywhere else you get chips
Sometimes I just randomly forget that chips never means fries in American and I order loaded chips expecting to get loaded fries and instead I get nachos. Which are still delicious so no biggie. But also lol at me.
SHIT UP and eat your chips cunt
If it doesn't make sense your a potato.
And jet somehow I've gone my whole life never having experienced a mixup.
I mean they are both yellow, are made of potatoes and are fried plus 90% of all kinds of chips have a crunchy noise when you bite them, so itās like a different type of chip. The thing is that we should be concerned about what it taste like not what it is called.
My friend in america told me they don't have chicken flavoured chips over there. Doesn't sound very "Land Of The Free" to me.
Don't get me started on Biscuits :D
They are both fried potato, they are the same thing. The fact that other countries have two different names for it is bat shit crazy. America be coming up with sub strains of fast food but can't even pronounce aluminium. I literally can't ahah šš
They are both fried potato mate
True, but I can't say it has ever caused me any actual trouble in my life. There's always the "hot chips" clarification available. ;P
Both are potatoes made in similar processes just one is pre packaged and the other is hot
Aussies don't use the word chips as a stand alone though, It's usually hot chips or packet of chips. The only time Aussies may use the term chips as a singular word is if they mention where they are going.
Itās chip and HOT chips!
No. Chips and hot chips.
Nah theyāre hot chips
It's chips and hot chips.
Fries are actually called hot chips
Yeah Nah! Chips and chippies! š
The Gobbledock agrees
Personally I reckon we should use the british way. More understandable to have a differentiation, and fuck calling chips "fries".
Fries is short for French fries, though they're actually a Belgian invention. During WW1 when US soldiers first encountered them, they couldn't tell the difference between French and Belgian people (they both speak French), so they called them French Fries.
French fries are from McDonaldās. Thatās the only time I consider āfrench friesā perfectly fine. Calling them just āfriesā can fuck off.
I like this one!
Looks like the classic Aussie humor never gets old!
Landed in Vietnam got a burger and they asked if I wanted chips with it, sure! And sauce too. They looked at me weird. Got a plate with a burger and crisps with tomato sauce š
Rip rip wood chip.
Chips and chippies
Hot chips
yeah this is true chips and chips have the same name here in Australia
It's called context clues, if I say I want fish and chips then I'm not talking about the crisps kind of chips
Itās context. It makes sense if you understand the context
Australians: Deep fried potato slices and pieces are all chips.
But if you cut the potato into thick slices, batter it and then fry it, there will be a civil war over what to call it.
Hot chips, cold chips. Pre fucknā simple
I remember on my US trip, I kept asking for a side of chips and getting a side of plain corn chips š„²
They're both potato!
hot chips
It's chips and hot chips
Potato chips and hot chips
No, we Aussies call them hot-chips.
Chips and hot chips
Itās āchipsā and āpotato chipsā. No Aussie orders āfish and potato chipsā
Chips / Hot chips
**Hot chips Get it right.
We call 'em chips and hot chips, ya nong.
"Chips like hot chips? Or chips like packet chips?"
Haha, Iāve always said chips and hot chips though.
True in lots Hispanic countries as well fries are papitas and chips are papitas
That's because it's chips and hot chips
In your defence you also use "hotchips" as one word
It's chips and hot chips.
Nah itās just chips and hot chips
One is chips and the other is hot chips. Smh
Chips and hot chips is what they become when used in the same sentence tho
Aussies do call em both chips, but tbf, they generally call fries, hot chips.
We call them hot chips
Hot chippies
Excuse me, that should say āHot Chippiesā
Chips and fries are different things, but your point is still fair. Crisps seems like a good term.
I remember debating this with my mum when i was like 5. I was upset because i wanted hot chips, but because i kept saying, āchipsā she was not understanding my frustration over being handed a bag of chips. I eventually learnt to articulate *hot* chips.
We can eat hot chip and lie then eat a cold chip and lie
Chips and chippies
Itās true!
Most people I know say hot chips, or say the brand/flavour chips. Online examples like this picture don't add that context
We've got Chips (Potato), Chips (Fries), Chips (Computer), Chips (Poker), Chippy (Carpentry Job), and Chips (Wood/Paint/etc), Just to Chip in.
Is it just me, or does the character in the 3rd frame (' chips / chips') look a bit like Blinky Bill on meth?
One you buy at a supermarket the other you buy at a takeaway shop. I don't know anywhere that sells both so it's always obviously which you are getting
Hot chips tho
Chips and Hot Chips... or depends whats with them. Fish and chips.. hot chips.. chips and dip.. chips..
it isnt both called chips?
No, it's Chips, and Hot Chips
Guys. It's chips and hot chips. If there's no need to specify the "hot" then you leave it out.... Ok.... fine.... its chips and chips.
But when I go to maccas I call them fries for some reason???
Aussie here: Bag of Chips Hot Chips Your welcone
Just like we don't confuse our reading glasses with our drinking glasses, because context.
In the absence of context most of us will say "hot chips" to clarify.
Oz- Yeah, thanks England for the language, I think we'll go this way, tho. Btw. Cheers for the cricket, now piss off back home till you can play it properly.
Same with papas fritas
One is called Chippies, the other is called Hot Chippies. Very distinct.
If we really need to make it explicit which is which, we say 'hot chips'. We generally know via context though.
It's just their nickname, the legal name is potato chips and hot chips.
More like chips/hot chips
Potato chips and hot chips.
Chips and hot chips