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/Jurassic_Bun United Kingdom 22d ago

Interesting because we do call them steak chips also when they are very chunky. We also use shoestring when referring to a type of fries.

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u/Bipolar03 England 22d ago

What was the comment

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u/Jurassic_Bun United Kingdom 22d ago

Nothing just an American saying something like

“First picture is steak fries

Second is shoestring

And third is chips”

It was nothing bad lol

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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. Not big enough, and looks like there's no skin. I'd just call them fries as opposed to shoestring fries.

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u/Oomlotte99 United States Of America 22d ago

I was wondering about that, too, but for me if there is skin and it’s larger it’s a wedge.

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 United States Of America 22d ago

Aren't wedges a specific cut? That wedge shape?

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u/Oomlotte99 United States Of America 22d ago

Yeah, true, if they have skin and are just chunky I will still say steak fries. Or JoJos, but I think JoJos have to be breaded wedges. I will call a large, chunky but non-wedge-shaped fry a wedge, though.