In Australia, chips are known as crisps. This can be confusing for Americans who are used to calling them chips. Crisps are a type of fried potato that is usually thin and crispy. Chips are thickly cut chips of potato, deep fried.
In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, "crisps" are potato chips which are eaten at room temperature, whilst "chips" are similar to french fries (as in "fish and chips") and are served hot.
Crisps (UK) / Chips (US)
In the UK, the thin round slices of fried potato that come in packets are called crisps, while in the US these are called chips.
Australia refers to chips as chips.
Frito-Lay primarily uses the brand name "Lay's" in the United States, and uses other brand names in certain other countries: Walkers in the UK and Ireland; Smith's in Australia; Chipsy in Egypt and the West Balkans; Tapuchips in Israel; Margarita in Colombia; and Sabritas in Mexico.
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I. It's said that wives and mothers of soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—abbreviated to "Anzac"—baked these treats to send to their men overseas.
Why do Australians call both crisps and fries “chips”? American chips are what the British call crisps, while our British chips are usually shorter and more chunky than the sort called French fries; Australians use chips for both the American and British sorts, distinguishing the latter by calling them hot chips.
Make a sentence below using the word 'crisps'! 💡 Plural noun (singular "crisp"): a very thin, often.
In the UK, 'chips' are a thicker version of what people in the US call 'fries'. If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
In Australia, fries are commonly referred to as "chips." Continue reading.
My dictionary also points out that although the word is an adjective, it also has a British meaning, namely, a noun for the thin salty snacks such as what we call potato chips. So we've come full circle, a thin salty snack in America is a "chip," in England, it is a "crisp," or "crisps."
French fries (US) are called "chips" in the UK, and "frites" in French-speaking countries.
In that package included the brands sold were CC's, Cheezels, Thins and Samboy. Despite Australians using the term "chips" for crisps, Smith's called their product crisps until as late as 2003. They are now labelled as Smith's Chips.
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
The federal government actually stepped in to determine whether Pringles really were potato chips. In 1975, the FDA decided that the company could call Pringles “chips” only if they called out the dried potato ingredient. Instead, Pringles decided to use the term “crisps.”
They call the tasty snack "crisps", while the Americans call chips "(French) fries".
roo – kangaroo
They had to have a dedicated slang term for kangaroos too, didn't they? After all, the kangaroos are Australia's most popular animals.
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.
chip sanga or chip butty.
chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.