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dead.flowers
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Stoneage
This is babel of tongues to me. Why is a store where you buy fish called a chip shop? Why do limeys call their french fries chips? (In Sweden chips means crispies and chips are called pommes frittes). Buy the way, do the yanks still call their fries Freedom Fries? Is there anyone learned in the art of glottology on the forum?
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Stoneage
This is babel of tongues to me. Why is a store where you buy fish called a chip shop? Why do limeys call their french fries chips? (In Sweden chips means crispies and chips are called pommes frittes). Buy the way, do the yanks still call their fries Freedom Fries? Is there anyone learned in the art of glottology on the forum?
Because the hub ingredient in a chip shop is chips..... Fish & chips, Pie & chips, Pastie & chips, Sausage & chips, Rissole & chips etc etc......& lately Curry sauce and chips.........
I guess they're called chips because they're a chip off a potato...............
......Why French fries ?....why not Italian fries or Spanish.........? or American fries as the potato originated there....??
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Green Lady
In the UK "fries" (French or otherwise) are those thin weedy things that Macdonalds sell you:
Chips are an altogether sturdier species:
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Green Lady
In the UK "fries" (French or otherwise) are those thin weedy things that Macdonalds sell you:
Chips are an altogether sturdier species:
That first pic might have been made with trans-fats.
What do the chip shops tend to use ?
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Dead Flounder
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Dead Flounder
ahh EddieByword that looks like you missed this piece of brilliance: [www.iorr.org]
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Stoneage
As always Wikipedia is at our service:
"Eating potatoes was promoted in France by Parmentier, but he did not mention fried potatoes in particular. Many Americans attribute the dish to France and offer as evidence a notation by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. "Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches" ("Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings" in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand (circa 1801-1809) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.[15] In addition, from 1813[16] on, recipes for what can be described as French fries occur in popular American cookbooks. By the late 1850s, one of these mentions the term "French fried potatoes".[17]
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Stoneage
Fine with me, Filip. But before I change my mind: What is your source then? In Sweden they are called "Pommes Frites" which has an unequivocal French origin.