At a restaurant, your waiter asks if you would like “chips”. What is he asking?

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At a restaurant, your waiter asks if you would like “chips”. What is he asking?
what does it mean?
 
In the US it would be potato chips or triangle shaped mexican style chips for dipping in salsa. In other countries chips refer to what the US calls french fries. As in fish and chips.
 
Well, its talking about tortilla chips, like as an appetizer instead of bread. Its free.
 
In the US he wants to know if you want potato chips...crisps.

In UK & Ireland he wants to know if you want french fries...potato strips deep fried.
 
Since I read all the answers, I'll just give you "it depends". If I was at my local mexican restaurant, it would be tortilla chips. If it was at the mom and pop breakfast joint, it would be a bag of Lays chips. If I was at a chain place like chili's, it would be french fries. Some people now have gotten so bad as to call them "freedom"? Or crisps? A chip is a crunchy thing that comes out of a bag, but doesn't have to be just potato. Doritos are chips, but they're made from tortillas.
 
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