TAR

Sean Carroll wrote:
>
> TAR wrote:
>
> >>And potato chips in England are called Crisps.
> >>And our cookies are their biscuits
> >>and our biscuits are their scones?
>
> I've always been baffled, actually, as to why they call fries chips. I
> usually like Britishisms, and even adopt them, but this one just makes
> no sense to me.
>
> Crisps makes sense. They're crisp. But what are chips a chip of? An
> American chip looks like a chip, a British chip looks like a french fry.
> Why would anyone apply the word 'chip' to a french fry? I just don't get it.

By the way, this was a misattribution, Sean. I didn't say this. It was
written by "luvhockey". Anyway, I wonder who named these foods first...
the British or the Americans.