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Chips Vs French fries

  • 21-01-2014 11:50PM
    #1
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭


    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.

    Proper Chips from the chip shop Vs fast food French fries . . . . 311 votes

    You just can't beat traditional chips from the chip shop.
    0% 0 votes
    French fries are definately the bizz . . .
    60% 187 votes
    I don't like chips, and I don't like french fries either.
    7% 23 votes
    I hate those skinny French fries.
    0% 1 vote
    I like proper chips, as long as their well done.
    0% 3 votes
    Depending on the mood, I may go for chips or FFs.
    11% 36 votes
    Other . . .
    19% 61 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Proper chips come from the garden, not the chipper.


  • #3
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Pomme frites


  • #4
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    That McDonalds crap is no good...

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


  • #5
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #6
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


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


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  • #7
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


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


  • #8
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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


  • #9
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Homemade oven chips FTW


  • #10
    BarcodeMuncher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭BarcodeMuncher


    Both..covered in grease


  • #11
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭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? :)


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  • #12
    ezra_pound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Home made sweet potato,or shoestring :)


  • #14
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Home made sweet potato,or shoestring :)

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


  • #15
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #16
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    'merica

    Chips = Crisps

    French Fries = Chips

    Urland

    Chips = Chips

    Crisps = Crisps

    F*** French Fries


  • #17
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Does anyone know for sure what French fries are made of?

    Little pieces of France.


  • #18
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Daddy.


  • #19
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    oh la la


  • #20
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Very hard to beat chips from Cork, especially chips from KCs in Douglas.

    Cork this, Cork that. Cork me fooking hole!


  • #21
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    BarcodeMuncher wrote: »
    Both..covered in grease

    mmmm, grease, mmmm


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  • #22
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,103 ✭✭✭✭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 :D

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #23
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    keith16 wrote: »
    I fucking love sweet potatoes. Who the fuck invented that shit?

    Mr.Potato, silly!


  • #24
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,131 ✭✭✭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


  • #27
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


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


  • #28
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭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 :D

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


  • #30
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭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 :D
    with unholy amounts of thick yellow mayonnaise, served in a paper cone *clutches chest and keels over*


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  • #31
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Crinkle cut hot chips with chicken salt.


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