Something We All Can Agree On

[Subduction Zone]

It's your logic

No, it is the logic of at least the plurality.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

I do believe that the French also call theirs "fries", but in French of course. So that would be " frites".

Yeah and in Danish it is "fritter".

 

[Heyo]

There must be something?

Posting on RF is fun and/or a duty.

 

[John53]

Yes, well 'fries' is the turnoff word for me. Even though I ate them for years, as well as "chips." I swore off chips, the potato chip kind, long ago. I bought them, however, by the droves and ate them. Now that I'm off chips AND fries, yes, I've turned to popcorn and peanuts in the shell, salted. I need to get rid of the peanuts, too tempting to keep by my chair and munch on them when I'm hungry. OK, finished once again. G'nite again.

I'm trying unsalted pumpkin seeds. It's like eating small pieces of cardboard but better than eating junk and according to the internet they're good for my prostate.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

No, it is the logic of at least the plurality.

Yeah and make it is true by popularity and false as an appeal to popularity. So which one is the most logically one?

 

[YoursTrue]

I'm trying unsalted pumpkin seeds. It's like eating small pieces of cardboard but better tan eating junk and according to the internet they're good for my prostate.

lol, ok. sounds good actually. I add pumpkin seeds and raisins sometimes to my oatmeal. And my salad. And I'm a woman.

 

[Heyo]

Yeah and in Danish it is "fritter".

In German it's "Pommes Frites" (sometimes just "Pommes" and then pronounced as if it were a German word). We took that from the French.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Yeah and in Danish it is "fritter".

Ooh, now I want an apple fritter. A sort of donut (hence the fritter) no hole, deep fried with apples mixed in and then glazed.

 

[ChristineM]

Now an argument about what to call them has begun.

Since they are fried that does seem appropriate. But I always thought of a chip as something rather thin. Like a chip of glass.

Many things can be fried and not called fries, bacon or eggs for example.

And these are chips.



Or fries or frits or whatever your want to call them. They are nice (if cooked properly)

 

[Subduction Zone]

In German it's "Pommes Frites" (sometimes just "Pommes" and then pronounced as if it were a German word). We took that from the French.

Oh oh. We keep getting variations of "fries".

 

[ChristineM]

I refuse to eat them if the word fries is mentioned

Your loss.

But chips are ok?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Many things can be fried and not called fries, bacon or eggs for example.

And these are chips.

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Or fries or frits or whatever your want to call them. They are nice (if cooked properly)

Yes. And here those nice chunky ones would be called "steak fries" probably because they were originally served with steaks.

 

[John53]

Your loss.

But chips are ok?

Chips are good as long as the word fries is not mentioned

 

[Subduction Zone]

A

Chips are good as long as the word fries is not mentioned

Why not fries?

 

[Subduction Zone]

In the US the term may have arisen with Thomas Jefferson.

 

[Secret Chief]

There must be something?

I agree with everything my wife says. Can we build on that?

 

[John53]

A

Why not fries?

Because they're chips

 

[John53]

I agree with everything my wife says. Can we build on that?

Only if she agrees

 

[Subduction Zone]

Because they're chips

But they aren't. Take a plate. Knock a chip off of it. Do the same to a rock. Look at a computer chip. All are closer to what you would call crisps.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I agree with everything my wife says. Can we build on that?

Well I disagree with what your wife says.


Please don't tell her that.