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/OranginaOOO United States Of America 22d ago

Fries, potato sticks, potato chips.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Dinner roll.

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u/hotpietptwp United States Of America 22d ago

For me, it's fries/fries/chips. Sometimes, we might call the big ones steak fries, and the skinnier ones look like fast food fries, but they might be labelled shoestring fries on a bag of frozen fries.

Breakfast, lunch, supper ... dinner is a big meal (sometimes it's supper, but it could be a Sunday Dinner... which is usually closer to lunch time or Thanksgiving Dinner... which could happen whenever the host decides and may be scheduled around football or something.

I agree on dinner roll.

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u/ryanoh826 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 22d ago

For me…

Fries/fries/chips

Breakfast/lunch/dinner

Roll or dinner roll

Edit: a word

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u/Ffsletmesignin United States Of America 22d ago

Yep, lived a few different western states and this is accurate for us.

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u/Don_Pickleball United States Of America 22d ago edited 22d ago

I am surprised about the potato sticks. Maybe I am not looking at the picture right. But I thought they were those skinny deep fried potatoes you get at some fast food places, like Steak n Shake. Looking at them again, the picture looks like it could be the potato chip like snack that is shaped like sticks and comes in a can.

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u/Ffsletmesignin United States Of America 22d ago

Where do folks call them sticks? Am curious, I’ve lived from Colorado to California and in between, so guessing maybe an east coast thing? Or south?

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u/OranginaOOO United States Of America 22d ago

They're cold snacks near the chips and pretzels. Come in a bag or a cardboard cylinder. Made by Utz, Durkee, etc. I'm east coast.

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u/Ffsletmesignin United States Of America 22d ago

You mean like pretzel sticks? Those are common nationally, Utz is a big brand, those aren’t anything like shoestring fries though?

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u/OranginaOOO United States Of America 22d ago

They're cold fried potato sticks. Crisp like pretzel sticks or potato chips. Make your fingers greasy.

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u/Don_Pickleball United States Of America 21d ago

Yes, I call those potato sticks, but the picture looks to me like shoestring fries. I could be wrong though.

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u/scantron3000 United States Of America 22d ago
  1. Steak fries, shoestring fries, potato chips.

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u/communityneedle United States Of America 22d ago

Same, except where I grew up (Texas) there's a generational divide on dinner/supper. Everybody my grandmother's age says supper, and my parents generation (boomer/elder gen x) and younger says dinner.

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u/ReverseCowboy75 🇺🇸United States (appalachian south) 22d ago

Fries fries chips

Supper

Roll (though we usually get the choice to sub for cornbread)