Chips Vs French fries

LordSutch

Proper Chips from the Chipper Vs skinny French fries from a fast food outlet.

(This thread/poll is not about one fast food restaurant Vs another, its just about Chips Vs French fries. Feel free to name your favourite brand if you wish).

Gloves on, round one, ding ding, you decide.

The Backwards Man

Proper chips come from the garden, not the chipper.

Sir Arthur Daley

Pomme frites

YbFocus

That McDonalds crap is no good...

Once they're cooked through you can't beat a good bag of greasy chips

FizzleSticks

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Mint Aero

Pizza...french fries....pizza!....french fries....pizza....french frieees....pizza.....pizzaaaa....pizza!!!

Sir Arthur Daley

Very hard to beat chips from Cork, especially chips from KCs in Douglas.

PizzamanIRL

That's too much reading for a poll. Can it not just be a yes/no option?

keith16

Homemade oven chips FTW

BarcodeMuncher

Both..covered in grease

LordSutch

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

That's too much reading for a poll. Can it not just be a yes/no option?

Good point, but from experience there's always somebody who will say 'crap poll' where'e the ... option?

ezra_pound

"Des frites de la liberté" as George Bush liked to call them are not a patch on good ole Irish lard cooked chips.

Frosty McSnowballs

Home made sweet potato,or shoestring

keith16

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Home made sweet potato,or shoestring

I fucking love sweet potatoes. Who the fuck invented that shit?

LordSutch

Does anyone know for sure what French fries are made of?

I was once told that although they do contain some potato, they are not 100% made from potatoes.

Can this be true?

vicwatson

'merica

Chips = Crisps

French Fries = Chips

Urland

Chips = Chips

Crisps = Crisps

F*** French Fries

keith16

LordSutch wrote: »

Does anyone know for sure what French fries are made of?

Little pieces of France.

Gran Hermano

Daddy.

LordSutch

oh la la

nocoverart

WikiHow wrote: »

Very hard to beat chips from Cork, especially chips from KCs in Douglas.

Cork this, Cork that. Cork me fooking hole!

holystungun9

BarcodeMuncher wrote: »

Both..covered in grease

mmmm, grease, mmmm

unkel

Poll fail

There's no such thing as French Fries, the yanks mistakenly give them that name. They are Belgian, and the only chips worth talking about (Dutch ones are very similar)

Frites / Friet FTW

Frosty McSnowballs

keith16 wrote: »

I fucking love sweet potatoes. Who the fuck invented that shit?

Mr.Potato, silly!

LordSutch

vicwatson wrote: »

'merica

Chips = Crisps

French Fries = Chips

Urland

Chips = Chips

Crisps = Crisps

F*** French Fries

The Americans have chip related lingo all of their own . . .

We know what's what here.

Zaph

WikiHow wrote: »

Very hard to beat chips from Cork, especially chips from KCs in Douglas.

Worst chips from a chipper I've ever eaten. After hearing about how good KCs chips were, when I actually had them they were a huge disappointment. Ended up throwing most of them in the bin.

ceadaoin.

I like both. Fries are delicious as a side order with a burger or grilled sandwich and dipped in mayonnaise. Chipper chips are nice on their own with lots of vinegar and curry sauce. Or maybe a chip sandwich with butter mmmm

Cienciano

There's a time and a place for both types imho.

suicide_circus

in my home we make skinny chips cut laboriously by hand from washed and peeled potatoes and fried in a big wok type pan. but chipper style big chunky chips and skinny fries are a completely different animal, both have their merits.

bodice ripper

unkel wrote: »

Poll fail

There's no such thing as French Fries, the yanks mistakenly give them that name. They are Belgian, and the only chips worth talking about (Dutch ones are very similar)

Frites / Friet FTW

If you can poxy find them while you paw through all the ****ing friet saus.

suicide_circus

unkel wrote: »

Poll fail

There's no such thing as French Fries, the yanks mistakenly give them that name. They are Belgian, and the only chips worth talking about (Dutch ones are very similar)

Frites / Friet FTW

with unholy amounts of thick yellow mayonnaise, served in a paper cone *clutches chest and keels over*

mad muffin

Crinkle cut hot chips with chicken salt.

ted1

LordSutch wrote: »

Proper Chips from the Chipper Vs skinny French fries from a fast food outlet.

(This thread/poll is not about one fast food restaurant Vs another, its just about Chips Vs French fries. Feel free to name your favourite brand if you wish).

Gloves on, round one, ding ding, you decide.

A fast food outlet like the ones found outside Dublin tend to use frozen pre cut chips of mignin especially their served in plastic trays. Proper ITICA chippers can not be beaten

As you poll failed to differentiate the two I call it invalid and guess you live in the sticks

suicide_circus

mad muffin wrote: »

chicken salt.

da fook is that?

mad muffin

suicide_circus wrote: »

da fook is that?

It's an Aussie favourite. Once you've had it you just can't have hot chips without it again. And they need to be crinkle cut.

ted1

unkel wrote: »

Poll fail

There's no such thing as French Fries, the yanks mistakenly give them that name. They are Belgian, and the only chips worth talking about (Dutch ones are very similar)

Frites / Friet FTW

Bollox the yanks have them the name freedom fries

Frosty McSnowballs

mad muffin wrote: »

Crinkle cut hot chips with chicken salt.

Tried that once.......still do know what I ate!

ted1

vicwatson wrote: »

'merica

Chips = Crisps

French Fries = Chips

Urland

Chips = Chips

Crisps = Crisps

F*** French Fries

Vic you left "potato chips"
Of your list

mad muffin

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Tried that once.......still do know what I ate!

As far as I know, they grind chickens down and you sprinkle their essence on your hot chips.

LordSutch

Proper chips with salt & vinegar is the dogs.

efb

mam's freshly made chips mmmm

unkel

bodice ripper wrote: »

If you can poxy find them while you paw through all the ****ing friet saus.

About 75% friet and 25% friet saus is about right

My personal favourite is friet speciaal: friet, friet saus, curry ketchup and raw chopped onion

Pic

ted1 wrote: »

Bollox the yanks have them the name freedom fries

They did, but that was nearly 100 years later

dd972

Chips from the Chinese are usually great, if your're ever in Brussels go to Friteland near the Bourse in town, their frites are f**king great.


I believe in following a balanced diet...


...so you've an equal chance of Cancer, Heart Disease or a Stroke :pac:

osarusan

Donkey Ford's in limerick.

you can't pull one out of the bag because the grease has them all stuck together.

Best ever.

vicwatson

unkel wrote: »

Poll fail

There's no such thing as French Fries, the yanks mistakenly give them that name. They are Belgian, and the only chips worth talking about (Dutch ones are very similar)

Frites / Friet FTW

FREEDOM FRIES !

pickarooney

I won't touch them if they're not made in Peru.

jimgoose

This whole thing is further complicated that the Yanks also use the term "steakchips" for big, umm, chips that are served with steak.

BraziliaNZ

how much are chips in Eire now? 1.80 here in London for a huge portion, battered sausage is 1.20.
I like all kinds of chips, oven, skinny, how can you not like them all, mmmmmm.

MonstaMash

Burdock's traditional chips can't be beat!

MonaPizza

Most fast food joint "fries" are crap with McDonalds being the worst. Burger King are slightly better but are still prett bad. There was a place on Westmoreland St called WonderBurger years ago and they did ok fries. You can't beat proper chip-shop chips with salt and vinegar. Anything else is just a poor pretender. London chipper chips are the bizzness.

Burdocks sucks..soggy slop.

miss no stars

Ew. Don't like chips. Every now and then I get a grease craving and have a fish and chips from the chipper, but generally speaking I don't like the things. Wedges par-boiled then finished in the oven are lovely, but eugh don't like the other stuff.

MonstaMash

MonaPizza wrote: »

Burdocks sucks..soggy slop.

There is only one Burdocks worth going to & that is the one in Werburgh Street, all others are just pale imitations IMHO