fishandchips

On Feb 24, 7:45?pm, Sean Carroll <seanc...@hotmail.com> 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.
>
> --
> --Seanhttp://spclsd223.livejournal.com/
> 'My bad.' --Dr Gregory House, after blowing up an MRI machine

indeed.....their chips are crisps, their toilets, loos, hell their
cigarettes are fags..........but their Beatles, ooh la la...........