Not fries
I just have one thing to say tonight.
These:
are chips, and these:
are crisps.
Thank-you.
posted by Claire @ 10:08 pm
9 comments
America America
This is not a series of rants about America. Just a number of observations about those little niggling differences between the USA and the UK.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
These:
are chips, and these:
are crisps.
Thank-you.
9 Comments:
Too right. Amazingly, the Israelis (who do everything else American-style, of course) agree with you. I think. Anyway, they understand me when I say `chips'.
You do have a bit of a chip on your shoulder about this, but you quite right to defend the cause: when the chips are down, one must try to stand up for them! I feel a rousing speech coming, somthing along the lines of Henry V: 'And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.'
Further update on Israeli terminology: here, chips are chips and crisps are, er, chips.
Today's punning is quite chipper, Pediment.
I am told by my gender confused friend that binary choices are a form of harassement. Nevertheless, given the choice, I would sooner pound Peter's puns into pulp than not.
There aren't any good anagrams of `r'. I don't think.
R you sure?
Okay, I hate to be the sole american posting on Claire's blog, but this is total bullshit. Even the french call fries "fries"(frites in their weird language). So, I am so sad that all the island folk will need to change their language(that means you too, Australia, I don't care if you do think that it is somehow a continent) but that is just how it is. Commercialism rules the day now, and as long as you have the big double arches(Macdonalds for those who don't get the reference) you are obviously calling them fries already, just as the rest of the world.
So, get over it and get used to it. The next time I go to an Irish pub I am emphatically asking for "fish and fries" and I am going to fucking wait until they bring it to me.
Next time you guys can lead the coalition to go liberate some 3rd world dictatorship, you can leave them with "chips and crisps", but until you are wasting 100 billion a year on a fucked up war, head over to the nice big MacDo, and grab some fries!
Peace Out
If you're so tough, why don't you come and conquer us, instead of a third-world dictatorship.
Then you can install hundreds of MacDonald's restaurants over here and...oh, wait.
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