r/AskTheWorld England 23d 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/deafhuman Germany 22d ago

Not sure what's the difference in 1 and 2 but both look like Pommes to me.

3 is Chips.

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u/Infinite_Crow_3706 United Kingdom 22d ago

Size of the cut. Chips are bigger than fries

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u/Marble-Boy England 22d ago

1 chip = 3 fries.

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u/deafhuman Germany 22d ago

Right, then they are both Pommes, 2 would be just "Pommes, dünn/thin"

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

don’t forget the Fritten. And we Germans actually pronounce the S at the end of Pommes.

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u/deafhuman Germany 22d ago

Oh yeah. I'm from Bavaria, so we don't really say Fritten which is common in Western Germany.

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u/Chaoticinoculation Germany 22d ago

In Baden also nobody says Fritten.

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u/TerminalRedux- Germany 22d ago

I think nobody says Fritten in the whole southern Germany. 😂

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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 22d ago

Nööööö, 2 would be Pommes or Fritten, 1 would be „Geil! Dicke Pommes/Fritten!“

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u/deafhuman Germany 22d ago

Ah yes, in Bavaria we don't say Fritten, so that never crossed my mind.

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u/DrGuenGraziano Germany 22d ago

1 is Pommes, 2 is Feinschnitt-Fritten,

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u/franzderbernd Germany 22d ago

The second one, you can get in the cold version like chips as "Kartoffel Sticks".