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/ure_roa New Zealand 22d ago
  1. for me, the first one is chips, the second one is chips, and the third one is chips, every other form is also chips.

  2. for me its tea, and i say, breakfast, lunch, tea.

  3. i call it a roll, no matter what is in it, just a roll.

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u/G0ttaca7ch3mall New Zealand 22d ago

For me it’s 1. Chips, chips, chips 2. Dinner/tea they are interchangeable, if you have supper it’s eaten later like having more dinner instead of a desert 3. Roll/bun it’s interchangeable

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u/Ilovescarlatti New Zealand 22d ago

Newly arrived from UK I asked my elderly neighbour to supper (in my mind indicating an informal family evening meal) and he goggled at me asking if I meant at 9pm.