Fish and Chips!

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Evie

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i only use the word fries when talking about mcdonalds chips. otherwise i call them chips. anything potatoey (hot or cold) in bite sized pieces are "chips", imo.

i like fish & chips, rarely eat it though cos i find it fattening unless we make it at home..which we never do. :lol:
 
Aww this thread has made me hungry, fish and chips and covered in vinegar!:drool:
 
I looove fish and chips, but it has to be true fish and chips and not the crap you buy in a box from the store.

Now I want some! :lol:
 
I never eat fish and chips in the states. It's just not as good in my opinion, normally because the fish isn't fresh and the batter isn't as good. Sometimes, closer to the coast, you can find fish and chips that are better, but the best I ever had was in a little shop in Galway just a couple blocks down from the B&B my parents and I were staying at, a literally maybe 100 meters from the beach. I think most of it has to do with the chips too. Around here the chips aren't the big, thick ones, they're normally a little smaller, or they make it with crinkle-cut fries which just aren't as good.
 
I used to love fish and chips when I was little. I remember loving going to Skipper's a few towns over, which is basically a fish and chips, and clam chowder restaurant.

I much prefer the UK words, but I can't get used to them... chips for fries, maybe, but crisps for chips, not so much. they're all potatoes though.
 
That was a brilliant description of our chip/crisps situation!
I have my fish and chips with gravy as well, good old northerner! Are fish and chips popular in America?
 
Haven't had fried fish for a while. :look: Usually when I go to the buffet I have the broiled fish...
 
Where I have lived for the past 30 years, one of the best places to get Fish 'N Chips is at Ivar's. The "Chips" are potato wedges fried.

At a nearby chinese restraunt makes great fried prawns and chips. :nod:
 
Sometimes I eat sushi while he is around. :P

Okay, I've made plans to get fish and chips tomorrow for lunch. The best part is the tartar sauce. :D
 
Well in the UK the word fries only really started to be used when American chains like McDonalds came over and started using it. To us fries are chips, and what the Americans call chips we call crisps. Now we do use the word 'fries' too sometimes but usually a 'french fry' is a thin chip like the kinds you get at McDonalds and Burger King, while a chip is the traditional British chip which is much thicker (about the size of a thumb) and is the kind which is usually served in fish 'n' chip shops. I can't reall yget used to saying 'fries' though so I call them all chips because that's what I am used to :)

But whatever you call them, they are far too delicious for their own good! :D
 
Yummyy.... and do you ever wonder why they call the fries chips???? Hmm....
 
i am rarely ever in the mood for fish.... but that does sound good right now. :drool:
 
I suddenly crave it...:sigh:

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This feels kinda weird since my fish is staring at me right now from his tank as I type. :goof: :lol:
 
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