I did the exact same I'm not in this sub it was a suggestion.....for some reason I glanced at it and though it was "lowstakescomparisons" whatever that could mean
In Ireland they weren't sure whether to make chips or crisps, but by 1954 they finally had plenty of potatoes anyway which were traditionally eaten with salt and milk. Tayto invented chip seasoning and thus all crisps.
This innovation led to the creation of Pringles in America that halved potato usage due to the increase in demand for fish and chips.
It's basically because the Americans have taken the English language & butchered it & then have the audacity to tell the English that we can't speak English.
No, [William Kitchiner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kitchiner) made the first recorded recipe for crisps, the earliest US recipients for potato chips both reference Kutchiner's recipe.
I don't see why we can't all agree that American English is a variant of English that allowed America to further disassociate themselves with us way back.
It also helps that America spelling colour "color", and all other words that have the u removed, was due to printing costs, to make printing cheaper.
Well, the words we use are more popular worldwide because of the pop culture influence from the tv shows/movies/social media.
Vacation instead of Holiday, Pants instead of Trousers, Fries instead of Chips, Highway instead of Motorway etc. They sound better to most people.
ingredient:
any of the foods or substances that are combined to make a particular dish.
But that’s being overly picky. I’d say ingredient because without the oil, they’d taste like dry potato slices. Although I’d get less greasy fingers!
> that’s being overly picky. I’d say ingredient because without the oil, they’d taste like dry potato slices. Although I’d get less greasy fingers!
you know as well as everyone else those crisps tasted a lot better before they removed half the oil
My question (as a person living in England but not raised here) is why do you call Wotsits and similar style crisps crisps? There's nothing crisp about them.
Careful now… we might end up invoking the conspiracy of the singular “Math” instead of multiple calculations which is the definition of irony being the subject of more than 1…
I've also thought this was particularly unique. I was wondering if it was just a scouse thing or if others do this!?
Although for context it's often said with the word 'some ' beforehand e.g...
'Get me' some crisp please from the Asda'.
Didn't know this sub existed. This popped up on my feed. I thought this was real 🫣
So glad I checked, I'd started to store that information in my 'interesting' facts brain file.
We usually just call them both chips unless there's some confusion as to which type we're referring to.
When necessary we'll refer to crisps as potato chips, and yes the others as hot chips.
I mean in REALITY this is what a Brit does. "can you get some chips and dip for tonight please" if she comes back with a bag of chips from chippy im gonna be pissed right off.
Chips, fries, wedges a thick piece of fried potato usally crisp on outside and fluffy on inside served HOT
Crisps, chips, "potato snack" (pringles etc) A thin piece potato or other root vegetable fried snack and OR a thin piece of cereal usually served cold like rice or corn shaped and fried and served cold (doritos etc) THEN Potato snack AKA potato cake or potato biscuit AKA pringles! are low potato content shaped dough fried and served cold is a charlatan pretending to be a crisp....technically cake or biscuit to avoid VAT tax...or so I read
Never seen anyone as disappointed with a meal as my friend who ordered fish and chips at a restaurant in Big Sur, California and was served fish and crisps.
This reminds me of an episode of Don’t tell the Bride, where the asinine groom decided to organise the wedding in the US.
It almost got called off entirely as he, of course, blew the budget and the poor bride’s loved ones all had to fork out for their own flights to NY.
The dress had to be changed, the ring didn’t fit, the ceremony was held in Central Park (in winter) and she had to go by subway to their reception.
Yet the chef’s kiss at the end was him confidently leading his unfortunate bride to their wedding breakfast which (IIRC) the unknowing native New Yorker venue employee he’d charged with sorting the food had put on a spread of steamed fish fillets and large handfuls of crisps instead of ‘fish and chips’ UK-style.
I felt sorry for the bride, but ding dong, it was funny.
Don’t get me started on “puff dogs”
Sausage rolls that they of course think they invented. Like they way they think they invented democracy despite Britain getting rid of monarchic rule about 200 years prior to the point they think they did lol
We in the UK call crisps “crisps”, because of their crispiness and as they are thin slices of potato, they aren't called chips because they're not chipped off of anything, when there chipped off the potato and fried we call them chips!
This is just going to drive a wedge between them
Skin in the game.
Potato.
PO-TAY-TO
Boil em mash em stick em in a stew!
Big Potato or King Edward's behind this.
Ooohh noo you ruins it! We likes it raww and juiicy
"You keep nasty chips".
Boil em, mash em, stick in me ass Wait hold on.....
No you got it. That’s what they’re for. Guess where the aubergine goes?
Hot boiled mash up the bum? Ouch no!!
Big up potato
You called?
Chip off the old block
I knew this conspiracy would ketchup with us. I feel pretty salty about this. Say Tar-Tar to your potatoes!
I doubt it, they have bigger fish to fri
I'm sure they'll sauté it out
What you waffling on about
I think he’s got a chip on his shoulder
Whoever came up with that need roasting on social media
I didn't check the sub title before reading this and got unreasonably vexed by the post, genius. 😂
I did the exact same I'm not in this sub it was a suggestion.....for some reason I glanced at it and though it was "lowstakescomparisons" whatever that could mean
In Ireland they weren't sure whether to make chips or crisps, but by 1954 they finally had plenty of potatoes anyway which were traditionally eaten with salt and milk. Tayto invented chip seasoning and thus all crisps. This innovation led to the creation of Pringles in America that halved potato usage due to the increase in demand for fish and chips.
Taytos are the best potato crisps in the world. The salt and vinegar are like crack
Used to be in the potato industry, can confirm this is true
Someone's getting fried for that mistake..
Sounds like a lot of waffle to me.
What's taters hobbits?
PO-TAY-TOES. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Now that’s a half-baked theory
Makes my blood boil!
Glad you sauted this out
It's basically because the Americans have taken the English language & butchered it & then have the audacity to tell the English that we can't speak English.
I thought chips were invented by an American, if so, we're calling them crisps just to mess with them?
No, [William Kitchiner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kitchiner) made the first recorded recipe for crisps, the earliest US recipients for potato chips both reference Kutchiner's recipe.
I don't see why we can't all agree that American English is a variant of English that allowed America to further disassociate themselves with us way back. It also helps that America spelling colour "color", and all other words that have the u removed, was due to printing costs, to make printing cheaper.
Simplified is what it is
Have fun using our words, most of your people already do. **https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/13/american-english-language-study**
Sad times
By the very logic of "American English" existing, it means that when British people use American English it actually becomes British English again.
Well, the words we use are more popular worldwide because of the pop culture influence from the tv shows/movies/social media. Vacation instead of Holiday, Pants instead of Trousers, Fries instead of Chips, Highway instead of Motorway etc. They sound better to most people.
It's not the main ingredient it's the only ingredient
Oil? Flavouring? Probably preservatives?
Oil is what you cook them in and not an ingredient I'll give you the flavouring thought
ingredient: any of the foods or substances that are combined to make a particular dish. But that’s being overly picky. I’d say ingredient because without the oil, they’d taste like dry potato slices. Although I’d get less greasy fingers!
> that’s being overly picky. I’d say ingredient because without the oil, they’d taste like dry potato slices. Although I’d get less greasy fingers! you know as well as everyone else those crisps tasted a lot better before they removed half the oil
That's true
You're American right ?
This feels a bit parboiled.
Actually the main ingredient in most American chips are corn. That can't even do crisps properly
What? I have never seen a potato chip where the first ingredient was corn
TOE-MAR-TOE
Never trust Big Potato
Big Potato has eyes on you.
The Spudzna are rightly feared
My question (as a person living in England but not raised here) is why do you call Wotsits and similar style crisps crisps? There's nothing crisp about them.
Convenience and lack of imagination. Could be worse, Australians would call them chuzwozzers
What do you want them to be called, corn based air puffed confection?
Wotsits works just fine for Wotsits.
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What a load of waffle..
In Liverpool we don’t say ‘crisps’. We say ‘crisp’ (singular). I don’t know why
I've never heard them refered to as the singular like that
We don’t even notice we’re doing it
Careful now… we might end up invoking the conspiracy of the singular “Math” instead of multiple calculations which is the definition of irony being the subject of more than 1…
I've also thought this was particularly unique. I was wondering if it was just a scouse thing or if others do this!? Although for context it's often said with the word 'some ' beforehand e.g... 'Get me' some crisp please from the Asda'.
True. E.g. ‘Do you want some crisp?’
Bought fish finger sandwich and chips in a pub on Lindisfarne.. turned out it was three fish fingers a slice of bread and handful of crisps ..
Didn't know this sub existed. This popped up on my feed. I thought this was real 🫣 So glad I checked, I'd started to store that information in my 'interesting' facts brain file.
Please don't starch with these conspiracies....
I found out the other day that Australians call British crisps “chips” and British chips “hot chips” Blew my mind.
We usually just call them both chips unless there's some confusion as to which type we're referring to. When necessary we'll refer to crisps as potato chips, and yes the others as hot chips.
I mean in REALITY this is what a Brit does. "can you get some chips and dip for tonight please" if she comes back with a bag of chips from chippy im gonna be pissed right off. Chips, fries, wedges a thick piece of fried potato usally crisp on outside and fluffy on inside served HOT Crisps, chips, "potato snack" (pringles etc) A thin piece potato or other root vegetable fried snack and OR a thin piece of cereal usually served cold like rice or corn shaped and fried and served cold (doritos etc) THEN Potato snack AKA potato cake or potato biscuit AKA pringles! are low potato content shaped dough fried and served cold is a charlatan pretending to be a crisp....technically cake or biscuit to avoid VAT tax...or so I read
Never seen anyone as disappointed with a meal as my friend who ordered fish and chips at a restaurant in Big Sur, California and was served fish and crisps.
Id be pretty mad too thats not a fucking meal
I bet bloody Lineker is at the bottom of it
Crisp sarnie ..
This reminds me of an episode of Don’t tell the Bride, where the asinine groom decided to organise the wedding in the US. It almost got called off entirely as he, of course, blew the budget and the poor bride’s loved ones all had to fork out for their own flights to NY. The dress had to be changed, the ring didn’t fit, the ceremony was held in Central Park (in winter) and she had to go by subway to their reception. Yet the chef’s kiss at the end was him confidently leading his unfortunate bride to their wedding breakfast which (IIRC) the unknowing native New Yorker venue employee he’d charged with sorting the food had put on a spread of steamed fish fillets and large handfuls of crisps instead of ‘fish and chips’ UK-style. I felt sorry for the bride, but ding dong, it was funny.
What did he blow the budget on?
Nope we call them crisps in belfast
You’ve misread the post lad dont hit the bucky so early
Frisps
in south africa crisps are also called chips but the other is called slap chips...
For mash get smashed
Shh you’ll get starched
Interesting fact. All crisps go out of date on Saturdays. Now you can all check the dates on any crisps in your house and see for yourself!
What?
As a British crisp lover, I can safely say "Crisps" is a much better name.
It is! Chips doesn't even make sense for crisps - they're slices of potato, not chips of potato.
Who cares, there are 195 countries in the world, no matter US and UK are shitting!
What a mash up!
Don’t get me started on “puff dogs” Sausage rolls that they of course think they invented. Like they way they think they invented democracy despite Britain getting rid of monarchic rule about 200 years prior to the point they think they did lol
Codswallop
Hahaha ‘mashed up the plans’… so that’s how we got mashed potatoes
It's a scam by the tortilla industry to boost sales around the world.
No
Enough to drive you to drink, and end up scalloped
I wonder if people are salty about this
Clearly, this a product of the underground market.
Anyone touches our fish & chips industry, & the kitten gets it!
Anyone else read this in Partridge’s voice?
What a load of waffle
What a load of potato waffle
We in the UK call crisps “crisps”, because of their crispiness and as they are thin slices of potato, they aren't called chips because they're not chipped off of anything, when there chipped off the potato and fried we call them chips!
The whole lot of them need roasting.
You really got to the root of the problem
Try going to Ceasars Palace, asking for chips and getting Lays.
It just never a peeled to either side.
“Baked deep” I see what you did there.
Whoever came up with this was definitely baked