Fries or Chips?

[Naiwen]

I do personally love : Mcdonald's fries and Brits and Chips' fish and chips. Fries with ketchup, steak, a club sandwich or a poutine. Chips with fish and chips, curry sauce, chili or ketchup and malt vinegar. What about you? And how do you like them and where do you have them?

 

[tango]

When English people refer to "fish and chips", what we call chips are what people in the US call fries. What US people call chips are what UK people call crisps.

Personally I regard "fries" as being the kind of mashed and extruded potato product that's mixed with who-knows-what to produce a generic product, whereas I'd call "chips" a potato cut into sticks and deep fried. Sometimes in the US I've seen "fish and chips" offered which was battered fingers of fish with chips that were potatoes cut into slices and fried. It was pretty good but not the same as English fish and chips. We'd usually serve a fillet of fish, battered and deep fried.

 

[Lamb]

I like crispy french fries but not the thick cut kind. I'm not a huge potato chip eater.

 

[tango]

I like crispy french fries but not the thick cut kind. I'm not a huge potato chip eater.

Thick cut ones are more difficult to cook properly. I guess that's why most places serve the thin extruded alternative, they are quicker to cook and more forgiving if things aren't right.

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

Both, but, if I had to choose, I'd take chips over fries. This is what we call potato chips in Romania:

 

[vince284]

I'm okay with both, I'm not a big fry or chip person. It all depends on what the main offer is fish, burger, etc. If I was to eat JUST a potato, it would be baked, with lots of butter, sour cream, chives and bacon bits. Oh, roasted broccoli on it sounds good. I'll even take a spicy chili as a topping along with everything else.

 

[Romanos]

If we are talking about potato chips, Dorritos are always a good thing to snack on.

 

[vince284]

If we are talking about potato chips, Dorritos are always a good thing to snack on.

They are corn... not potato. But they are my favorite!