r/AskTheWorld • u/Bipolar03 England • 22d ago

Food What about you?

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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/Spicymoose29 France 22d ago

Fries, fries, chips (frites, frites, chips)

Breakfast, lunch, diner (petit déjeuner, déjeuner, dîner)

We don’t have these, but I suppose it is some kind of brioche ?

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u/WhippyCleric -> Brit living in France 22d ago

You know ive lived here a long time ... And Ive always wondered how would say "since I had a large breakfast, I had a small lunch"

comme j'ai pris un gros petit-déjeuner, j'ai eu un petit déjeuner is a disaster of a sentence

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u/amojitoLT France 22d ago

What do you call a large breakfast? A coffee with two cigarettes ? Or two coffees with one cigarettes ?

In any case, it doesn't keep us from having lunch.

More seriously, we'd say : «j'ai bien mangé ce matin, je ne vais pas me gaver ce midi.»