Chip shops

[jirqoadai]

I’d like to know where you got this name “fries” for chips cos basically most of you derive from The Mayflower and sometimes I do think of you as perhaps Brits that talk with an awful accent. So! Who gave chips the derogatory name of fries, where was it first mentioned?

our first fried potato was invented by davy crockett when him and his cronies ate the stash under an injun fort that they burned down with the injuns inside. stewd is how he discribed his spuds.

[UKSmartypants]

This thing with french fries is out of kilter with empirical data.


The truest form of potato culinary competition is with the potato chip, as it's called in the US. Go into any store and at best there will be one kind of fried potato wedges. But there are dozens of brands and styles of the very thinly sliced potatos, in bags. All the variations that can be imagined are there, with different oils, different coating, different shapes, different degrees of browning, etc. Why are we discussing these other fried potato forms?

We were frying chips in the Uk when you were still giving the Irapaho flu, whisky and guns.

[Authentic]

I’d like to know where you got this name “fries” for chips cos basically most of you derive from The Mayflower and sometimes I do think of you as perhaps Brits that talk with an awful accent. So! Who gave chips the derogatory name of fries, where was it first mentioned?

I have ancestors who were on Mayflower and a few subsequent ships to Plymouth, but around here I'd have to guess the majority of people have roots in Guadalajara.

[Authentic]

We were frying chips in the Uk when you were still giving the Irapaho flu, whisky and guns.

Arapaho. You guys are defensive about fish and chips, while we are defensive about our Indian (Native American) names.

[UKSmartypants]

the ship shape
chip shoppe
stops serving ale
at around eight,
though one can still
buy chops
if theyre not
wearing chaps
at the butchers.

Long ago

Outside a chip shop in Walthanstow

There was a biker called Greasy Joe

Put on 'is 'elmet and said 'Lets go'

He was keen

Went down the 'igh street like Barry Sheen

Trying 'is best to look really mean

Till he sees Ann on her new machine

Rummmming away together

Rummmming away together

Ann and Joe.....etc etc...




With apologies to Abba and 'Angelo'.

[Authentic]

We were frying chips in the Uk when you were still giving the Irapaho flu, whisky and guns.

The Spanish gave them horses.

[jirqoadai]

The Spanish gave them horses.

correction. they stole horses from the BlackFeet

[Neo]

I have ancestors who were on Mayflower and a few subsequent ships to Plymouth, but around here I'd have to guess the majority of people have roots in Guadalajara.

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[Authentic]

correction. they stole horses from the BlackFeet

Who stole them from the Comanche, who got their horses in Santa Fe.

[jirqoadai]

Who stole them from the Comanche, who got their horses in Santa Fe.

Comanche were good breeders also. the BlackFeet made one raid and then became the premier horse breeders of the injuns. the better question would be, why did so few Apache have a horse?