Ok, I'll explain. It's not about people at home having to peel potatoes. Imagine you run a diner. You have low profit margins and you use frozen chips. It's a high volume item. Most customers order chips. A 25kg bag of potatoes is about 30 portions. You might use 100kg of raw potatoes in a day.
Have you ever peeled, chipped, parboiled, and possibly pre-fried 100kg of potatoes? I certainly haven't but I imagine it's at least a shift of work for a member of staff. Which means you need to hire someone. You might also need to buy a commercial potato peeler which cost $1000-$3000 US. Then a month or two later the shortage is over, you go back to frozen. Do you fire the new staff? Sell the machine?
I think it's funny, although it does go against the guideline of not editorializing headlines. Changing the title wouldn't really make sense as I believe the whole submission was meant as a joke around the changed title to deceit hacker news readers.
Chips. Although very occasionally you will hear crisps.
Often "hot chips" (french fries), as distinct from a "packet of chips" (crisps), but it's contextual: e.g. a Schnitzel with salad and chips, would always be with hot chips.
Crisps. Unless you are referring to a packet of chips, which you may also refer to as a bag of crisps, which you may also call chips. This is on the citizenship test, by the way. Every other answer is “Sir Donald Bradman”.
Yeah, nah.. chips or bust. The only people I've ever heard say crisps are British or 70+
It's a packet of chips if you mean crisps, or just chips if you mean hot chips. In a situation where disambiguation is needed I'd probably clarify with "hot chips".
Crisps has pretty entirely been overtaken by chips. Magnificent word though, sometimes I use it to either be funny or just remember the taste and texture of a sadly underutilised word.
It never applied to hot chips/ fries though, just the other kind.
If you want a raised eyebrow response, just ask "are you going to finish those crisps?"
They'll know what you mean, but they'll still act confused. It's great.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 107 ms ] threadIt’s a potato scallop, mate.
It's literally a potato fritter.
Have you ever peeled, chipped, parboiled, and possibly pre-fried 100kg of potatoes? I certainly haven't but I imagine it's at least a shift of work for a member of staff. Which means you need to hire someone. You might also need to buy a commercial potato peeler which cost $1000-$3000 US. Then a month or two later the shortage is over, you go back to frozen. Do you fire the new staff? Sell the machine?
Often "hot chips" (french fries), as distinct from a "packet of chips" (crisps), but it's contextual: e.g. a Schnitzel with salad and chips, would always be with hot chips.
e.g. I'd use the name "chip sandwich" for a sandwich with crisps in them; a "chip butty" is sandwich with thick-cut french fries.
"A fush fullet end fuftiin dolliz o' chups thinks"
And "hot dogs" in New Zealand are battered sausages. That was a hard lesson for one of my kids :)
I've consigned myself to never reaching proficiency in either.
For the non-Australians, we don't really say parmigiana either, it's parmi or parma and there's a lot of playful debate over the naming.
It's a packet of chips if you mean crisps, or just chips if you mean hot chips. In a situation where disambiguation is needed I'd probably clarify with "hot chips".
French fries = hot chips if you need to disambiguate, but usually (eg on a restaurant menu) just chips.
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It never applied to hot chips/ fries though, just the other kind.
If you want a raised eyebrow response, just ask "are you going to finish those crisps?"
They'll know what you mean, but they'll still act confused. It's great.
"With the major rains at an end for now, potatoes are returning to the shelves and frozen food section."
https://theconversation.com/what-was-behind-australias-potat...