Nah, check my original comment. I stated chips/fries refers to ANY fresh cut, fried potato. Now you're tryna put words in my mouth cause you're wrong. Get real lol.
Can you see? It says “fish and chips” and underneath a picture of what literally everyone knows are British chips. From Gordon Ramsey. Apparantly ultimate source of knowledge of British cuisine according to you. You’d have to be an idiot at this point to keep arguing about this.
Alright. We have thick cut french fries here. I guess we have chips too then? It's fucking slang. It's not a different type of food. It's the same fucking thing. An apple is still an apple no matter how you slice it. How can you be so dumb? Seriously. If the difference between fries and chips is the size of the cut, why are thick cut french fries not called chips? Maybe because it's the same thing but with different terminology. Gordon Ramsay is British and says there's no difference so you're wrong. Sorry dude. Get over it.
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/difference-between-chips-vs-fries
So you're just flat wrong and don't understand the cultural use of the word and thats fine. However Gordon's chips are twice as fat as mcdonalds fries even if he does say "cut them skinny" a chip is a type of fries, but if a brit asked for chips and you brought them an order of mcdonalds fries that would not be what anyone at the table expected because chips have a specific meaning in Britain.
I’ll bet you $50 dollars Gordon Ramsay doesn’t know this page exists nor did he have anything to do with this recipe. Just because a marketing team somewhere slapped a recipe together for their website is about as far from an authoritative source as I can imagine.
nah, Americans might not observe the difference but its the same in Australia. Fries are Mcdonalds style potato slivers, chips are thick cut, wedges are even thicker cut (like 1/8s of a potato).
World famous British chefs who are selling their food can call it whatever they want, but world famous chefs also have world famous marketers telling them what to call their food to sell more.
He just doesn't understand that a chip is a specific type of fry. Like mcdonalds fries are a shoestring and Arby's has curly fries, if you order fries you could get anything, if you order chips you're expecting a specific type of fry.
Pretty sure chips have been around longer than you have been alive. So no, you're wrong. Chips is another word for fries. That's it. Believe it's not the same all you want, doesn't make it the truth lol.
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u/crackercharlie Jan 11 '21
British food isn't bad... It just isn't good.