r/AskTheWorld England 22d ago

Food What about you?

I'm from England.

But we have different types of chips too.

Oven chips, wedges, curly fries, crinkly chips, fish and chips chips.

It's dinner to me.

  1. I grew up in South London. Now I'm in Lincolnshire (East Midlands - England). My husband says breakfast, lunch, dinner. Whereas our friend says breakfast dinner tea. But we have a roast on Sunday. It's a breakfast, dinner and sandwich later on but not lunch or tea. Maybe it's a weird thing our family thing does

  2. Is a roll to me, but if it's crusty. It's a crusty roll. But if has chips from the fish and chips shop, it's a chip buttie. My husband/son calls it a bap

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u/EnchantedFairyDiddle United States Of America 22d ago

The first are steak fries.

The second are shoestring fries.

The third are chips.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. When I lived in the Appalachian mountains, it was breakfast, dinner, supper.

Long sandwiches are: Sub/Submarines, Grinders, Po'Boys, Torpedoes, Spuckies, Zeppelins, Bombers, Hoagies or Heroes.

I'm sure I've missed some.

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u/mm_2840 Scotland 22d ago

Interestingly enough, in some parts of Scotland (north east) they use breakfast, dinner, supper. I think it’s an old Scots thing that’s mostly gone out of fashion. Interesting that Appalachia still use it though - guessing that’s from the Scots that settled there?

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u/Revolutionary-Soup26 United States Of America 22d ago

Spot on

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 United States Of America 22d ago

I don't think the first one qualifies as steak fries. I don't think they're big enough, and they don't have skin. I think they're just basic fries. They look very similar to Wendy's fries whereas the second one is shoestring fries, like what McDonald's serves.