Smuggler's Blues
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Do they call them fries in New Zealand?
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@jolly said in Smuggler's Blues:
Do they call them fries in New Zealand?
https://www.potatopro.com/news/2009/new-zealand-chip-french-fries-shop-competition-again
Wiki: "In the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, the term chips is generally used instead, though thinly cut fried potatoes are sometimes called french fries or skinny fries, to distinguish them from chips, which are cut thicker. "
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Folks here of pre WWII generations referred to them as chips. My parents and their friends always called them chips. Since the advent of TV the term fries has crept into the lexicon to become the common term, although chips is still used and is usually understood by all but the under 30 crowd.
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What KFC, McDonalds etc. produce are not chips, and would not be referred to as such in the UK. Polite Britons would refer to them as 'fries' or 'french fries'.
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