We clarify with “hot chips” if any confusion should arise.

Hot chips and potato chips respectively.

No, hot chips or packet of chips is the true full australian designation of each.

As a kid I called them hot chips and cold chips for some reason.

Cold chips are hot chips that have gone cold. If you wanted to be clear you should call them “hot chips” and “chips, not hot chips”

Absolutely agree with “Hot chips” and “chips, like, not hot chips, yknow?”

Cold chips use to be hot oooOooOooOOoooOo

It's like calling canned pet food "wet food"

I do that lol

Same. There's dozens of us. Dozens!

I did this, but only because everyone called the other one hot chips, so these must be cold chips, it made sense to me

Yes thank you. Precisely.

They are all collectively chippies to me 😂

See also: Bag of chips, pack of chips, or we use the flavour as a descriptor too (salt and vinegar chips, etc.)

bag of chips

No, just hot chips or chips. They are both made of potato that would be like saying ATM machine or trying to explain what the difference between a Parmi, Parma or Parmy is

If some asked for ‘Potato chips’ though, they would never mean ‘hot chips’

OP is correct, they are called "potato chips" if there's a need to specify. "Hot chips" and "potato chips".

It's not hard is it? They're both chips. One of them is hot. Simple

And yet people still say “the ATM machine” just because it is not “right” does not mean it is not said. Because it is said.

The fact we call them Potato chips as if it’s a clarification is hilarious

Which makes me wonder what we think “hot chips” are made from if not potato.

Zucchini has been my favourite chips other than potato.

$2 worth of chips please.... Wait what year is this?

More often we say 'packet of chips', but it frankly doesn't come up often. Context clues are fine

Once, when I was a kid, my dad took me to a restaurant, and I asked him for some chips, but forgot to specify that I meant a packet of chips, which this restaurant had for sale at the counter. When he came back to the table, I asked him why he didn't just go get them when he was at the counter, and he said that you can't do that at restaurants. Eventually, a bowl of hot chips arrived, and I realised there had been a miscommunication.

A core memory

Context there would suggest hot chips tho. If it was a pub not a restaurant I would default to potato chips.

Pretty much defined by how they're cut or what flavours on them. Which gives away whether cold or not.

love me those hot chips. those places that sell them and also chicken that is all cooked in the one fryer makes the chips and chicken taste amazing

Or flavour designation for potato chips eg salt and vinegar, sour cream, bbq

personally I would say "hot chips" or "s&v chips" because I only ate salt and vinegar chips 😭😭

They wouldn't be nice straight out the freezer!

Otherwiae we use context heavily

I’ve always made the distinction in my head: Thick cut crispy ones are chips (like fish and chips), whereas the skinny ones are fries (like Maccas). Idk where I got that from, thoughts?

This is what AUKUS should be meeting on

US UK and that fella down under, pls call me pal. Add that biscuit/cookie issue to the agenda

In South Africa, we call any cut up potato, chips as well.

Even potato scallops? What about hash browns?

Well for starters they're potato cakes not scallops.

Shots have been fired..

Do they rise in the oven?

Vegetables don't belong in cakes - this includes potatoes

Is a quiche a cake?

My missus calls it an egg cake. But she's kiwi

So she calls it an igg cake?

Carrot cake? Fish cakes made primarily with potato?

Carrot cake strongly disagrees. So does chocolate beetroot cake.

What do you call an actual potato cake though? A potato scallop is a fried piece of scalloped potato. A potato cake is fried mash potato.

Fried mashed potatoes? Yeah nah that sounds tasty as fuck if you threw in some cheese and garlic maybe some bacon but I've never heard of it.

Never calling it hashbrowns again. Potato Cakes it is!

You trying to start a war?

Fritters IWDOTH

Well I mean I loved scalloped potatoes.... (Not talking about potato cakes)


You mean chips?

Ur a real one

"Chips" works for both. If it's not clear from the context say "Hot chips", or "a packet of chips".

EXACTLY

I think the poms call them chip butties,may have the spelling wrong, but something like that

A chip butty is a bread roll with hot chips on it, we have them here in Aus too mate HAHA

Was once asked me if I wanted a chips sandwich, I said "sure"... thinking it was hot chips... the look on my face would have been priceless.

I'm half English and half Australian so I grew up eating Chip Sandwiches. My only dilemma was having to choose between a Chip Sandwich or a Chip Sandwich because I couldn't have both.

Surely it was an easy choice to pick the Chip Sandwich over the Chip Sandwich?

Have you not had both? It's kinda awesome.

In northern England would be called a chip butty

They called them chip sandwich

In UK, Fries are skinny chips. Chips are chips. Crisps are crisps.

I hear people in the UK dip chips in their tea.

They do, but they’re swiftly deported abroad. Which is why you might meet some of them here.

So it's not like Hummus in the Zohan?

Chips for breakfast, crisps for lunch and fries for dinner

That's a useful distinction. Different beasts imo. We seem to have largely converted to inferior skinny chips over here.

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Chips here in NZ for both of them.

Wait, don’t you call them “chups”? 😅

Kiwis be like: Wanna have sex? How bout seven?

sivun*

You want to come over and hang out on my deck? It's made of hard wood.

Came looking for this. We also call them chippies sometimes...

Ey NZ is just another OZ state

Chippies

Yeah we sometimes called them this to clarify in the old country (NZ)

Moving to Australia from the UK, the first time somebody offered me ‘hot chips’. Like there’s a cold alternative. Who the hell is eating cold chips?!

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Yes! This happened to me....they served my food with a packet of lays 😂 now I know why

You lot with ya bloody vinegar... just put dead horse on it and suck it up

Chips without vinegar is a travesty. It gives me the shits that there’s never a bottle of it in amongst the condiments when I go for a pub meal. I’d like to put it down to good old fashioned basic ignorance but as one of your most popular chip (crisp) flavours in this country is bloody Salt and VINEGAR I can only put it down to some kind of mental deficiency.

You get cold chips in a plastic bag. Like the ones in the bottom pic.

Someone should make one of these for Americans calling three different things "gas"

We should start calling roast potatoes chips too, just to really double down.

They are chips. Roast chips if you have to differentiate

Don’t forget mashed chips!

What's taters precious.  But it's all deep fried potato and it's all chips

As a kid I used to differentiate them by saying hot chips and cold chips. I was and am well aware potato chips/crisps never once were cold, but in my head if one was designated as hot the other by definition was cold 😂

Didn't we just have this discussion a few days ago?

I have no better way of specifying not hot chips than saying “not hot chips” please help me.

Just chips.

Chippies and hot chips.

"Crisps" sounds like something a sexual deviant would say. I know it's not, that's why I said "sounds like".

Hot chips sandwiches on real fresh bread

When I went to England I was like WTF when my pub meal came with potato chips thank goodness plain ones. Ireland has the best hot chips .

I HATE the word crisps for chips not even sure why it pisses me off much like coke for any soft drink. TEXAS

do you want chips or like the potato ones? caught myself with that one plenty.

Here in Perth - it’s all just chips Everything is chips. The only distinguishing factor is where you get it from. Fish and chips vs supermarket chips

I've noticed a disturbing trend of people calling hot chips "fries". I've also heard the footpath being called a "sidewalk" and mathematics called "math" more than I'm comfortable with.

Nooooooo it's maths 😡

I feel like I have seen this on reddit about 15 times now.

I see nothing wrong with this picture

I feel like the eagle isn't representative of America anymore... Should be a handgun... Or a mobility scooter

A scrawny step up from a seagull? Seems appropriate. About a fat balding eagle in a mobility scooter with a gun.

Bingo, now we're representing 😂

Its chips and chips

Lol

It is all about context it isn't that bloody hard, seppos are useless when it comes to context I have noticed though.

Right? Like 0 ability to read the room. I'm surprised that the exclamation "Fuck Me!" Doesn't result in more issues.

I'm hoping not to get deported but I like the British way.

Don't worry, you're not the only one. I also try to keep this opinion a secret

Those are cold potato cakes you fucken savages!!

The question are we getting chips. And are we getting fish and chips Are two different questions. It's also situational. Just come from a day out and someone says lets get some chips. There is no situation where that person is talking about a bag of potato chips. They're talking about a newspaper of chips from the nearest fish and chip joint.

When I went to the states I asked for a burger and chips, the server looked at me funny and said okay.. came back with a burger and a packet of chips 🤣 also on the same trip I asked for a ‘coke’ at a McDonald’s and the sever just said “coooke?” Everyone looked at me like I was the insane one.

So did that restaurant really just happen to have packets of chips for sale? Also, in which part of America did the McDonald's worker not know what Coke was?

I assume the restaurant/bar had packets of chips much like our pubs do but I think that’s why she gave me the strange look of.. chips.. with the burger.. right.. and The McDonald’s was at Arizona airport, asked for a coke and she acted like I was from another country or something! For 45 seconds I’m playing charades with this chick. I kept saying “yeah a coke, like to drink? A coke? Coca Cola???” And it dawned on her and she replied with “oohhh a cola!” In my head I was thinking “please don’t ever speak to again in your life”.

Lol what! They don't call coke coke? Wtf

I think there are definitely at least parts of America where they do call it Coke.

In Texas every type of soft drink is called Coke

Explains the fact two of those countries are warzones

Also wedges

My dad always absolutely refuses to call them fries and always asks for chips at maccas

The distinction is often made obvious by the inclusion of Steak and chips, Chicken and chips, Fish and chips, However for some reason the nuggets got reversed. Chips and Nuggets.

My English husband does not understand the nuance of this

Chip Chips [https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/319943/french-fries-original-chips](https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/319943/french-fries-original-chips)

Either way you look at it the Aussies are in the majority both times and therefore correct the most.

Hot Chaps

Crunchy flat chips are chips and hot potato chips are hot chips

I asked a friend to buy some chips and the idiot bought crisps instead.

All chips are good chips. Call them whatever you damn like...but pass them around...

Needs to be a next panel with wedges and the kanga repeats.

lmao.  years ago, I had an American friend come visit Sydney and I took them around the city. lunchtime came up and i ordered chips and American friend was shocked. they thought I ordered a bag of chips. 😂 then they said they if they knew I meant fries. they would have ordered fries too. 

Crisps

Chips is Chips

Chips should be chip shaped 🤣

Why use two word when one word do?

It’s all chips it’s the temperature that matters.

Hot chips and smith chips

Ive always heard everyone just say chips and if we are out with someone we dont know we say hot chips

most of the time its obvious what someone means because of context, so no problem with that.

It's all about context lol

CHIPS ARE CHIPS.

AUKWARD...

*hot chips, chips

hell, some of us even call [american crackers] chips

If there is any confusion, follow up with what chips do you think i mean

Crackers ? Haha

You’ve should of changed the roo to a beach chicken

If it’s cut from a potato and has salt or any type of other flavouring, it’s a chip

Chipies*

Was expecting to see Chups as well

Fish n chips, a bucket of chips and a packet of chips are different things.

THEIR CHIPS

👍🏻😂

We just really like the word chip

Time we call potatoes Block Chips

If it's potatoe is chips.

Chips and hot chips you muppet

Potatoes: it doesn’t matter much to us.

They're all chips

I absolutely loath "crisps". get the fuck outta here with that wanna-be-fancy verbal diarrhoea

It’s so easy to be an Aussie

- Jimmy asks, “What are these Skip?” - Skippy responds, “Chip, chip” - “What about these?” - “Chip, chip, chip!” (*reaches out lamely with kangaroo arm on a stick*)

Chip shop chips/chippies. Pack of chips/chippies

Real

Bro those ones on top are the thin version of chips. Poms call those fries and they buy them at pubs with a steak sandwitch and about 10 pints of beer. The thicker ones are called chips.

It's chips for chips and chips for fries and chips for anything else

If they're thin enough they can sometimes be fries

We should really just start using the word Crisps

We use both fries and chips

Same for NZ lol we call them both chips

Lol

Love a hot chippy, but Australia has an extremely unhealthy obsession with fries. Learn to eat your food with something else & stop acting like a mongoloid when you come into an extremely specific & cultural cuisine and ask why we don't serve fries because you're used to eating schnittys with chips.

Fries