ColJust heard someone say chips and fish. I've never felt so irritated, I'll fetch them some vinegar and salt. Or perhaps they want pepper and salt.
Andre Louis@kibcol1049 This person is banned from all public places without prejudice. No more of that if you please.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@kibcol1049
🤣 🤣 🤣 I’m tall and until I speak in my unmistakable American accent, everyone thinks I’m Irish. I’m soooo gonna do this just to see how many heads explode around me. 😜
🤣 🤣 🤣 I’m tall and until I speak in my unmistakable American accent, everyone thinks I’m Irish. I’m soooo gonna do this just to see how many heads explode around me. 😜
@Pineywoozle let me know how it goes.😂
@kibcol1049 lol Will do.
The Drop Bear 2.0 
Old Woofian has moved@kibcol1049 In the film Shirley Valentine, egg and chips was called chips and egg throughout. Loved that film but chips and egg thing always jarred.
lordjeff@kibcol1049 Mmmmmm gravy
@kibcol1049 smack them serisly, hi bugbear! lol
Gerald@kibcol1049 why do some people want the world to burn?😭😭
Kai@kibcol1049
Probably you can complain about it formally by writing a white and black letter to them.
Probably you can complain about it formally by writing a white and black letter to them.
Paul Martin@kibcol1049 I had a Hungarian physics teacher in middle school whose favourite phrase was "tear and wear".
UkeleleEric@nowster @kibcol1049 Was he talking about clothing? Brings a whole new perspective.
𝓓 𝓑 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻Kill them. Burn them with fire. Such people should not be allowed to walk among us.
Paul 💙 28 💔 💚I remember when chippy Meat and Potato pies became Potato and Meat pies
Apparently the largest ingredient by volume had to come first
Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️@PGBeattie @kibcol1049 I remember those days too!
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@rayhindle @PGBeattie @kibcol1049
Still wonder why it's "fish & chip" but "burger and fries"
@the5thColumnist @rayhindle @kibcol1049
Local convention... Always fish and chips with me .. never chip
Burger and fries sounds like an Americanism
To me.... Chips in the US are what we call crisps I believe
The UK and USA two countries separated by Language
Andi H@the5thColumnist @rayhindle @PGBeattie @kibcol1049
In the UK I guess it's because chips are chunky cut potatoes, where as fries are mashed potato extruded into thin tasteless strips.
Also you can't buy a burger at a Chip Shop and you can't buy fried fish at a Burger joint.
Yes, outside the uk, chips are potato crisps. As I found when I once ordered Steak and Chips room service in a hotel (Spain). Was brought two silver dishes, one with a steak, one with a portion of crisps 🙄
In the UK I guess it's because chips are chunky cut potatoes, where as fries are mashed potato extruded into thin tasteless strips.
Also you can't buy a burger at a Chip Shop and you can't buy fried fish at a Burger joint.
Yes, outside the uk, chips are potato crisps. As I found when I once ordered Steak and Chips room service in a hotel (Spain). Was brought two silver dishes, one with a steak, one with a portion of crisps 🙄
@AH_99 @the5thColumnist @rayhindle @kibcol1049
Not quite so ... Local chippy.. the Good Catch... Sells great fish
Changed its name to Catch and Cow... Still sells great fish and now Expensive Smashed Burgers... Both with chips
Sticking with the fish but I get your drift... Have a great day
Ian K Tindale@AH_99 @the5thColumnist @rayhindle @PGBeattie @kibcol1049
I propose that chips should be called Belgian Julienne-cut potatoes
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries#Origin
I propose that chips should be called Belgian Julienne-cut potatoes
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries#Origin
Sibrosan
Jay 🇺🇦@u0421793 @the5thColumnist @PGBeattie @rayhindle @AH_99 @kibcol1049
I always thought they were Belgian but this wikipedia article shows that the only source for that is "trust me, bro" and even if we trust the bro, what he's describing are not fries. This is a win for France then.
@AH_99 Remember a friend of mine ordering a burger and chips, and getting a hamburger with a packet of crisps in the States. Yet the hotel we stayed in served steak and chips! (Not steak and fries)
@the5thColumnist @rayhindle @PGBeattie @kibcol1049
Sorry Richard, just realised the question of plurality.
yep, sometimes a "Fish and Chip supper" ...
Sorry Richard, just realised the question of plurality.
yep, sometimes a "Fish and Chip supper" ...
Seb@kibcol1049 @PGBeattie linguistically it should be the most valuable first rather than what there is most of - that’s why fish and chips, steak and kidney, gold and silver, gin and tonic etc.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@seb321 @kibcol1049 @PGBeattie Ah - need more "Hitchhikers' Guide"...
Apparently "Jynnan Tonnyx" is/are a very popular form of refreshment throughout the galaxy 😀
(And yes I know, yer man's dead now but I would have loved to have read his take on "Steak & Kidney Pies" :-) )
MysturjiThink you can call one item by the predominant ingredient... Daft in the sense of pie... But changing it to potato and meat makes a sort of logic
Gin and tonic are two items combined ... Same as fish and chips,
So it also makes sense to have two separate items listed as the more valuable first
@PGBeattie @kibcol1049 If there is a rule, it’s hard to pin down. I thought syllables: Morecambe and Wise, Little and Large, sugar and spice but French and Saunders, Jon and Vangelis, rum and raisin, big and bouncy. So no.
Importance: diamonds and pearls, Sun and moon, wheat and chaff but (despite what I said before) silver and gold (equally), nickels and dimes. So often but not always.
Quantity: as we’ve already said you can have meat/leek/cheese and potato so no
Kelvin n0mql EN35ldBy that logic, I'm fat and clever.
Which is to say that although I'm very, very clever...
zendao42@kibcol1049
Makes me wanna accumulate a bunch of fries, chips & crisps but no fish
Makes me wanna accumulate a bunch of fries, chips & crisps but no fish
Christ van Willegen@kibcol1049
In Dutch, you _would_ call it a "Pepper and salt set"!
In Dutch, you _would_ call it a "Pepper and salt set"!
Dud (Mx)@cvwillegen I think the Netherlands is given a free pass, due to so much of it being below sea level. @kibcol1049
Expertenkommision CyberunfallDoes it come fried?
@expertenkommision_cyberunfall
They are usually glass, metal or ceramic pots, so I'd recommend not doing that...
@kibcol1049
They are usually glass, metal or ceramic pots, so I'd recommend not doing that...
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Nick@kibcol1049 In the Welsh language the order of things is the other way round. The convention carries over when speaking english in Wales. Cheese and chips, curry and chips, gravy and chips. You wouldn't last 10 minutes here 😂😂😂
Phil Thane ✅
Angus Mackenzie