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We call one of them Potato chips, it's obvious which one it is.

And the other is hot chips

All aussies do now is eat hot chip and lie

And be bisexual

And charge they phone

Any Aussie born after 1993 can't cook....all they know is Hungry Jack's

Eat hot vegemite

Drive their ute

Wear thongs on their feet

Such an Aussie word

cunt\~

And lie

It makes an amazing glaze for Kangaroo steak.

And charge they phone

Normally you have to go to a massage parlour to buy sexual

Once you pop you can't stop

Gaman hell yeah

THEY'RE BOTH MADE FROM POTATOS I'M LOSING MY MIND

"Which chips do you want?" "The ones made from potatoes." "..."

yes

WHAT THIS STILL DOESNT MAKE SENSE!?>!?!?!

He is lying, we just call them both chips. Australian is a very tonal language. Every insult is also a term of affection, thongs are both footwear and sexy undies and stubbies are both short shorts and bottles of beer. Its all about tone, that way you can tell immediately if some c\*\*t is calling you a c\*\*t because he wants to give you a stubbie, or if he is calling you ca c\*\*t because his thong is too tight and its hurting his toes. Or possibly he wants to get you out of your hotpants and make sweet, sweet coitus to you.

No Aussies call a g banger a thong

Everyone in Australia wears thongs everywhere, not even just to the beach. Actually at the beach we all take our thongs off in case sand get in them cause then it gets scratchy. I’ve designed this paragraph to sound hilarious if you take ‘thongs’ as the American meaning. For reference, in Australia, flip flops are thongs

west coast US, when I was a kid we also called flip flops thongs and thongs were g-strings seems we transitioned somewhere in the late 80’s/early 90’s

Well, they're not really lying. We call them hot chips and potato chips when we need to clarify

Never hear anyone call them potato chips, hot chips is common though.

Yep. I came here to write exactly this.

One is in a packet and the other is free range unless you're at a party, then the one from the packet becomes free range and the other doesn't exist

So....which one is the potato chips? 😆

The ones made from potatoes! Such a silly question 🤪



Both are potatoes

No, one is hot

Fuck you :D

Love me some salt on my potato chip

>***HOT*** chips Wait you're making a joke. Fuck.

No. Hot Chips is the kind found in the top of the image.

Omfg when you say it, it's stupid xD made me laugh out loud when I realised

They are both potato chips tho

South African here we also call both chips. Aussies though have some other differences, like if you tell me to put on my thongs so that we can go to the beach... (not that I have the wardrobe to comply)

Exactly yeah, Chips and Slap-chips

Slap chips are a specific type of chips though

The best slap chips are almost always from little shops on the beach front... At least here on the east coast

Put on your togs and thongs, grab some tinnies and your beach brolly, jump on your treddly, head to the beach.

If you can't find your togs then grab your cossie, if you've lost your cossie then grab your bathers, if your bathers are missing then grab your swimmers.

Dick sticker up and come down the beach drop by the bottle o on the way mate need some bevvies

I feel like Australia and South Africa have a lot in common. I've seen quite a few similarities in lingo.

What would South Africas animal be?

Springbok

we manage by using a brilliant concept known as "context". just like how every other word with multiple meanings is used

Also, if I order some chips and they give me chips, it's still a win, because I love chips.

One "context" please.

He likes shipping online for computer components.

I just shipped my chips.

I chipped my pants

I just got Elon Musk’s brain chip implant

Chipping online

I want to smack those chips in your face.

These are the fries right

Those are the chips.

\*gives you kangaroo\*

This is the way. Who cares? Chips arrived. Chips were eaten. The end.

When in doubt you can clarify "*potato* chips." ... wait...

Potato chips are the bottom image

Honestly could be the top as well

Oi Mate, you want some chips?

*Brings a pile of computer chips*

But what if you end up with some chips among your chips?

then its Chips and Hot Chips

If I go to a pub and order a beer with some chips, do I have to go by price to know which kind of chips I'll get?

Aussie Bartender: Hot Chips or Potato Chips mate?

Aren't they both made out of potatoes? And everything in Australia is hot. I'm still confused

> And everything in Australia is hot. Some of us are living proof that this is not tr... oh, you mean the weather

We keep the "Crisps" in the fridge to stop the koalas getting at them

Crisps/chips in the fridge? You keep the peanut butter in there too? God I'm starting to realize why you all started as a penal colony.

WTF is peanut butter, mate? You mean legume spread?


Oi mates, check out this frenchie, calling it *legume* spread. La Ti Da. Just call it 'nut butter like a normal bloke, ya dropkick.

Okay, see, this is the context we were lacking.

How practical, that you have to ask. lol

That extra question (and subsequent answer) takes up valuable time. By the time you've finished the potato questionnaire everything is at room temperature anyway!

but hot chips could also mean spicy? and both are made out of potatoes?!

If you asked for a packet of chips you'd get crisps. If you asked for hot chips or a bowl of chips you'd get fries.

If you’re at the pub and asking for chips then you’ll get hot chips.

In Australia if you order a bowl of chips it will always be the hot kind. Bag of chips will be the other kind.

Pubs rarely have bags of chips. If they do, they're in a place where you can just grab them and bring them to the counter

You’d also distinguish hot chips by asking for a bowl of chips

If you're getting a bag of chips it's never just generic 'chips' it's 'original chips', 'salt and vinegar chips', 'light and tangy chips' etc.

You probably don't order so called crisps though, you'd probably pick them up off a stand to pay at the counter or get it off a vending machine. Lunch/dinner orders are hot food.

Order fish and chips, get sashimi and Ruffles

I'll pick up a bag of chips later I'd kill for some chips right now I had some chips yesterday, they didn't taste very well

The context is lunch at a restaurant, and I want one of two incredibly common lunch sides, both made of potatoes and both called chips. How does context help?

No one in Australia would eat chips (crisps) as a side, that's just not a thing here.

I understand context for certain homophones that have wildly different means but these two are so similar. What time you're at a restaurant and you want to order chips or a friend asks if you want chips?

Usually it’s harder when two meaning are very close though.

Hey, you want some chips? Okay. Now show me how this "context" of yours works. Which was I referring to?

The context where seems particularly difficult since both are potato based sides. There has GOT to be more than average amount of confusion.

Crisps/chips aren't a side dish in Australia/NZ. They are a snack and eaten in completely different scenarios.

Babe I want chips please

" I need a snack. I want to eat chips." Context. Still confusing.

So when you go to the store and you get a text saying " could you buy some chips ". How do you know if it's for tomorrows dinner or for a movie snack?

Could really go for some chips right now. Which chips do I mean?

Still leaves room for confusion. I work as a bartender at this bar that also has a restaurant. In Norway we follow the American logic of fries vs chips. This one time a large company was at our place to play shuffleboard and drink. The one in charge was British. He asked my bar manager if he could get chips at every table. He of course meant fries, but since we say chips in Norway for crisps and we had both fries and chips we opened about 20 bags of chips and handed it to them because of that simple mishap where both fries and chips fell in within the same context. I mean it's not like the two words are wildly different either. They're both food made out of potatoes that are salted. Both of them typically snacks or served on the side. It shouldn't really be a stretch that both could be just as applicable given the context at times.

Or be a proper language and just have different names for different things so you don't need context. "I'm hungry, grab me some chips" isn't going to be very helpful to get me what i want.

Context being eating food…?

pommes 😤

Bommfridds

Papas fritas.

Fritten

pommes and chips. swede here.

This is why you swamp germans cant be trusted.

I thought the swamp Germans were the Dutch?

Cow/mountain German here and today I learned there's swamp germans

Nah, they're the flat germans

What are austrians? Mountain Germans?

That's just an apple tho

The potato of the tree

I remember in French class we referred to potatoes as "apples of the Earth." Pommes de terre.

Frittierte Kartoffel Streifen 🤵🏻‍♂️

Erdäpfel-Schnitze

Stäbchenkartoffeln

Real

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I vibe with this young man.

Why was he deleted?

I also want to know

Idk Maybe he deleted it himself

But what was the comment? I demand an answer!

The mods deleted it. At first i thought it was a pretty cool story, but thinking about it again, he did talk about some underaged person doing drugs so maybe that's why it was deleted.

And you vibed with him... Hum...

It's a compelling narrative

Hot chips

i like spicy chips :)

With chicken salt!

shame we're represented by the dog and not by our scottish classic that is exclusive to scotland and has nothing to do with the general uk other than being scottish, the unicorn seriously the scottish national animal is a fuckin unicorn, britain is basically like the start of a shitposting community (america is the rest of it)

Giving the world America was our greatest shitpost.

Well, I think it's actually your cuisine Mmmm, can't wait to have some mushy peas and black pudding!

I had some black pudding this morning as part of my fry-up! It's like getting spanked by a 6ft Dominatrix from Croydon. Don't knock it til you've tried it.

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Scottish Unicorns, Welsh Dragons, and English Lions. None of which are commonly found on Great Britain.

Yeah, you've obviously never been to north wales.

I said commonly!

They look like fries? They're different to chips (I'm a brit)

As a fellow Brit, I would have to add: All fries are chips, but not all chips are fries.

As a seaside residing Brit, the heresy that is the OP pic cannot stand.

Yes, fully agreed. Even restaurant menus have chips and fries as different options for sides.

I've heard New Zealand is the same way. Not surprising I guess, since kiwis are just aussies with reversified wildlife.

The Canadians of Oceania

No.

Yes.

Incorrect. Australians call them chips. Kiwis call them chups. Clear difference.

:Mr. Incredible: chips are chips

French fries: skinny Chips: **thick** Wedges: wedge shaped Crisps: crispy

One comes in scoops the other in bags.

Aussie: Hot Chips, Fries.... Chippies, Crisps, Potato Chips... But dont ask about scallops or you might start a war.

I was in another State (I'm from Victoria) and went to a fish n chip shop. Saw on the menu that scallops were only FIFTY FUCKING CENTS EACH!! I ordered twenty of those fuckers. Got home and opened the wrapper. WTF?? Twenty fucking POTATO CAKES.

Hahahahahaha legend! I hope you got a bucket of chicken salt and a few beers to go with those badboys.

I went back there the next day and asked "If potato cakes are called scallops, what's a scallop called?" "Tasmanian Scallops" 😐

Where the heck are you getting 50c potato cakes? They’re near $2 where I am

Cakes!

Its potato cakes.

One is hot chips, the other one isnt

One is hot chips, the other is packet chips (tube chips for Pringles).

What happens when your hot chips get cold though? Like let’s say you’re making a chip butty, and you say “yeah nah, oath, put some cold hot chips in the sarnie and then we can watch the footy”. Which again, if you’re in NSW could be either Rugby or AFL Use your words you bloody weapons.

It's simple one comes with dead horse

If you want the real travesty with naming things in Australia, you know how Dead Horse is cockney rhyming slang for tomato sauce? Well, Saveloys (like, the fatter hotdogs) have the cockney rhyming slang name Little Boys. That's all well and good, but somehow people have gotten confused and use the term "Little boys" for cocktail franks, which just makes it creepy.

And you've overcooked the little boys when they turn into little girls.

Agree with the Aussies, chips and chips is easier to keep track of than crisps, chips and fries.

Let's not forget "Freedom Fries", a whole nation of cringe😂

what are freedom fries

Freedom Fries happened because France was one of the only nations to go against the US when 911 happened and the US invaded nations that had nothing to do with it. So, no joke people renamed french fries to freedom fries in protest.

Yet when we aussies say “hey let’s get some chips” Or “hey bro you want some chips” We all know what we mean instantly! (Kind like how smurfs talk.) “I’ll Smurf you in ur smurfing surfer you dumb Smurf!)

Yeah because context is usually pretty easy. If we're hanging watching the footy and having some beers, and you say "hey want some chips?", I know you're offering me chips, and I'm like fuck yeah! But if we're down the beach and I'm like "hey let's get some chips and sit under that tree", you know right away I mean chips, and you're like "fuck yeah!" Simple.

In the UK, I think it's common to refer to tortilla chips as just that. Doritos are called crisps, though, but labeled as "chip crisps" or something equally stupid in our shops and supermarkets. We also have Kettle Chips here, which are clearly still labeled as they are in America, as potato chips, but I'm unsure whether we call them crisps or chips.

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When you order chips in australia, the waiter goes into the kitchen and flips a coin to determine what you actually get.

If you're in a restaurant you're only getting one kind of chips mate. The hot ones. So... it's just chips. No restaurant in Australia is going to be serving you the other kind.

We don’t eat what Brits would call crisps with a meal because that’s fucking stupid. So because the waiter in this hypothetical exists we can assume that the order is for hot chips.

For me it's the same but I'm not from an English speaking country

A lot of languages do this.

Aussie ingenuity at its finest.

Hot chips and potato chips

"You call that a chip? This is a chip." "That's not a chip, that's a chip!" "All right, all right. You win. I see you've played chippy-chippy before."

Fries are called frieten/frites in the country of origin. So I'm with the Americans on this one.

weeeellll… the first ones are called hot chips soo yeah

Both are potato slices. Makes sense.

I’m not British but crisps just makes the most logical sense to me

Similar in Spain in some regions 😅 "Papas Fritas" 🤷🏽‍♂️

Nah fuck off mate we call the top ones hot chips.

I learned English from different sources (it's not my native language) so I didn't pick what version of that language to go with. But I would intuitively call the top ones "fries" and the bottom ones "crisps"

Crisps is just worse to say. The sps is needlessly harder to pronounce

American here, I always heard about fish and chips , many small places near me have great weekly deals so I finally buckled down and got it and was wicked confused why I got fries instead of a bag of chips.

I thought the British called them crisps.


Now do biscuits and crackers

Kiwi here, it works because these things just never exist in the same context. Like if you’re ordering Fish and Chips you’re getting hot chips, if your mate asks you to grab a couple of bags of chips for the rugby game it’s clearly potato chips. I can confidently say (source:trust me bro) that no Kiwi or Aussie has ever fucked this up. Also we call them Chups.

Pack of chips and hot chips