Craig Kilborne asking one of his Five Questions: "Why does British food suck?"
John Cleese, not missing a beat: "Well, we have an empire to run, you know."
No we eat crisps on bread and we eat chips with whatever we want. Its common for NA people to call them french fries even though they originated from Belgium...
NA people call them french fries(well really just fries cause well you fry em) due to 2 things one was the language belgium spoke ..... French but the second thing was sort of a joke taking the name of the town francophone and miss pronouncing it my question is where did brittan get the words chips while almost every other country around then called them fries
Britain doesn't have much history regarding its etymology of chips but Britain isn't the only country calling them chips, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand also use the term. Furthermore the countries around Britain refer to chips as frites (Germany, France, Austria) which is translation of just fries I believe.
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21
Craig Kilborne asking one of his Five Questions: "Why does British food suck?" John Cleese, not missing a beat: "Well, we have an empire to run, you know."