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I (only having left the US once) thought that "chips" was the British word for french fries (or you could reverse that).
What's the difference?
Chips are like fries American cousins.
The answer is appreciated but, unfortunately, I don't know what that means.
Fatter and greasier.
Well, thank you for the edification.
They sound like fried yucca, so I'm in favor.
Chips for eating with fish should be substantially thicker, to the point of having a noticeably soft core while crunchy on the outside.
Chips 'cut in the French style' (as seen here) just means cutting them thinner.
Ah, that does indeed sound like steak fries. Thank you.
British chips are what I would call wedges.
I can see where your coming from, but wedges are the bigger fatter cousins of chips, usually with some potato skin still on display, and are excellently paired with some sour cream and sweet chilli sauce and I want some...
Obviously I'm not in a position to criticize anyone's take on them, but perhaps steak fries would be a more apt comparison in your eyes?
Hmm... I can't say I know exactly what steak fries are, but I imagine them to be similar to what I consider normal chips, which are thicker than fries. But, I grew up in Australia where McDonalds sells fries and hot chips are everything else
Steak fries.
Sadly, it appears that the Wikipedia article redirects to "steak frites," which (based on the image for the article) appears to be a dish consisting of steak and what I would call "shoe string" fries.
To me, a steak fry would be thicker than a regular fry, but not as thick as a wedge; flat; and a rectangular prism, possibly with crinkles cut into it. A regular fry would be a shoe string fry, as shown in the original picture in this thread. A chip would be a very thin, flat or curved slice of potato that has been fried.
I always thought "chips" (in Britain) (and Australia) and "fries" (in the US) were the same thing by different names. Interesting to know that there are qualifiers, since I would call any of the cuts described above (and some others) "fries" and you, apparently, would not.
Also, I don't know what word the British/Australians use for what I call "chips."
edit: I think that waffle fries are the best cut.
I think fries amongst the younger generation may be more common, but fries to me has meant the really thin cut/french fries. Which I would still call chips, but I may be an outlier.
I think I know what you refer to as strak fries and I agree, however I would still call those chips, if you can see a trend, lol.
We also call potato chips/crisps chips. So, I often get asked by foreign friends how you distinguish between chips and chips. You simply add the word hot as an identifier.
But, I'm with you on waffle fries/chips. They're amazing.
Your input and dedication to this thread are appreciated.
The only thing worse than a waffle fry is, may the Deep Fryer forgive me for saying this word, a crinkle cut.
Waffle fries can be just a bunch of crinkle cuts joined together, in effect.