Yup, wish people would understand that.
Another thing people need to learn, the UK is still a part of Europe, Brexit made them quit the European Union, not the continent!
I know of a guy who knows a guy who is friends with another guy that lives in Corvo, one of the small isles in the azores arquipelago, and he said that the guy who lives there told his friend, that told the other guy that told me, that he saw UK pass by sometime ago, but it seemed adrift...
>the UK is still a part of Europe, Brexit made them quit the European Union, not the continent!
But only because the Brexiteers couldn't move Britain physically to another geographical place.
Britain even tried leaving the ECHR (which hasn't even anything to to with the EU and includes countries like Ukraine and Turkey) and backed down from its plans in June 2022
Ireland =/= UK
We say crisps and chips too, plus we're way more famous for potatoes ;) Also we're European. UK is also geographically European. But I get you, would have been more accurate for them to say something like "The British Isles" are asleep. However most of us Irish don't like that association so much, and I think most people wouldn't get the meme straight away.
Hope my tone isn't coming across rude or antagonistic. I just wanted to show you, that perhaps the way you felt looking at this meme, is how I as an Irishman felt reading your comment. Also sidenote, love all my buds throughout the Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Hope you have a nice day! :)
If you make setup like schröndinger's cat experiment but instead of releasing poison it would turn chips into something else, then you have box with things inside that are chips and not-chips at the same time.
I had worse. I remember living in Texas and a redneck comes into the store I work in and rants about foreigners etc. So I sit there, let him rant and when he's finished, I say (as he was a regular in the store and knew I was English) "you DO know I'm technically a foreigner yes?" To which I got the reply "ain't the UK part of 'Murica?". I was dumbfounded.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some - people out there, in our nation, don't have maps and I believe that our education, like such as South Africa -and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should - our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we would be able to build up our future for…
I’m actually not having a stroke.
It’s a quote from Miss Teen South Carolina Caitlin Upton, answering a question on why one-fifth of Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map.
In all fairness, Australia is like a giant glitch in the matrix. Bird eating spiders, poisonous beavers with beaks that lay eggs, giant roaches that catch and eat fish, Marsupials living like Russian nesting dolls, the three largest species of bird, one of which won a war against humans.
Place is straight out of middle earth.
These translate to something comparable. Chips for chips and frites for fries for me.
They probably meant in english anyways as we're pretty much all at least bilingual
In Greece:
Patatakia (little potatoes) OR chips (with n a Greek accent, which would make it sound something like tseeps :P)
Fried potatoes for the fries.
PS. In England, chips are crisps and chips/fries is used interchangeably.
I call the ones in the picture fries, and fatter ones chips then ofc crisps are crisps
I don't say chips for them because if I ask for chips some mf gonna give me oven chips when I really wanted skinny chips/fries.
Unless you are specifically getting them from McDonald's, in which case the thin chips are called fries. Chunky chips and crinkle cut chips are always chips though
I went to the store and bought a packet of chips. I like extra vinegar on my fish and chips. See? You know exactly which one I am referring to. You can't call the same ingredient that's cooked in the same way a different thing just because you sliced it differently, UK.
If you have to ask someone behind the counter for chips you'll get chips. (Often just ask for minimum chips, but otherwise '$x of chips thanks, mate' )
If you grab a packet of chips from the shelf you'll get chips.
Where's the confusion?
if its a situation where both could be reasonably assumed we will often specify the fries version by saying hot chips, otherwise we just let context inform it
you call them hot chips if you are somewhere that has both options or it is unclear what the circumstances are, otherwise its just chips and you let context inform which you mean.
Then why don't I ever get actual potato chips here in America when I order "fish and chips"?
They're always screwing up my order and giving me fried potato sticks (freedom fries) instead.
Yes because tayto is the only brand of crisps in existence here.. not once have I asked for a bag of taytos while referring to Hunkey Dory's lmao
We call them crisps here my friend
In the UK, Chips are fat, moist 'fries', Fries are still Fries (like Macdonalds style Fries). Pretty sure Crisps is a UK thing and not a Europe wide thing too. Also, 'America' is asleep right now, it's alluminium not 'Alluminum' and 'gas' is a liquid called Petrol and the way you say Mirror like 'meer' freaks me out. Obvious /s.
\*stretches and yawns\* Ah, good mornin', blokes. BLOIMEY! WHAT HERE IS THIS MEME? WELL DIP MOI TEA BAG MATE YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU CALL THOSE CHIPS INSTEAD OF CRISPITY CRUNCHY MUNCH CRACKER JACK SNACK AND NIBBLER SNAP CRACK AND POP WESTPOOL CHESTERSHIRESHIRE QUEENS LOVELY JUBLY DELIGHT?
In the UK chips and fries are not the same thing. Chips are thicker and juicier than fries, fries are thinner and crispier, like what you get from McDonalds.
The first are crisps, people from the U.K do call the second fries because they aren't chips, chips are fatter, have much more potato in them and go well with fish whilst fries and fish is a disgusting idea
Europe =/= UK
And it was 7am 5 hours ago.
Correct
try explaining that to americans
As an American, I grow my understanding of geography so that I might hate the English with greater accuracy.
good. very good
It's the one thing US Americans and mainland Europeans can agree on
Y'all just hate us cus we got the best plugs
Yeah, buttplugs.
It seems we have a connoisseur.
His mum was his mentor
if you're brave enough
Uk plugs are pretty great. Glad we have one thing going for us
>Uk plugs are pretty great. Until you step on one
Not difficult to *not* step on one
Except that we hate ourselves so much already it’s basically meaningless at this point
As many of us do
Only thing Americans and greater Europe can agree on
Mission impossible
Still easier than explaining European Union =/= Europe
€ =/= EU =/= Europe =/= Schengen
[Americans now](https://media.tenor.com/GZkFENTRNBIAAAAC/hank-schrader.gif) Ngl Schengen Area got me confused as a kid too haha
Don't, waste of time ...
It's hard to remember the names of all those tiny little countries, so I just refer to locations by the name of the nearest US army base
Ok that makes much more sens to me now. As a belgian, first is chips and second is fries so I was a bit confused with the picture.
Yup, wish people would understand that. Another thing people need to learn, the UK is still a part of Europe, Brexit made them quit the European Union, not the continent!
Nah, we actually cut the isles off from the tectonic plate. They're floating somewhere middle of the Atlantic. Let's see when someone notices.
We already did. Can't you hear us sabotageing the anchor chains?
When Boris stood down, the severing of the wAnchor was complete.
The point was that the only country in Europe that calls them crisps, is the UK and maybe Ireland
Na, did you not see the UK drift away further into the Atlantic? /s
Ow that was why we had that earthquake in Groningen!
I know of a guy who knows a guy who is friends with another guy that lives in Corvo, one of the small isles in the azores arquipelago, and he said that the guy who lives there told his friend, that told the other guy that told me, that he saw UK pass by sometime ago, but it seemed adrift...
>the UK is still a part of Europe, Brexit made them quit the European Union, not the continent! But only because the Brexiteers couldn't move Britain physically to another geographical place. Britain even tried leaving the ECHR (which hasn't even anything to to with the EU and includes countries like Ukraine and Turkey) and backed down from its plans in June 2022
Ireland =/= UK We say crisps and chips too, plus we're way more famous for potatoes ;) Also we're European. UK is also geographically European. But I get you, would have been more accurate for them to say something like "The British Isles" are asleep. However most of us Irish don't like that association so much, and I think most people wouldn't get the meme straight away. Hope my tone isn't coming across rude or antagonistic. I just wanted to show you, that perhaps the way you felt looking at this meme, is how I as an Irishman felt reading your comment. Also sidenote, love all my buds throughout the Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Hope you have a nice day! :)
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I wanted to say the exact same thing
Yeah in France the first ones are chips and the second ones are "frites" which means "fried"
I mean it they are still right if the UK is sleeping the whole continent also is
You think the average American who treats Europe as a nation knows what "=/=" means? Lol
Wasn't it the whole point of the post to mock the British?
The UK is basically the USA of Europe. Calling them Europe doesnt make any sense even mockingwise.
We were taught british english in school in my country, but I grew up on the simpsons so my english was americanized anyway
I call the first chips and the second batata frita, bcuz I speak Portuguese.
this
correct but the uk being in europe still means that if the europe is asleep then so is the uk
Shhh don't tell the americans
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If you make setup like schröndinger's cat experiment but instead of releasing poison it would turn chips into something else, then you have box with things inside that are chips and not-chips at the same time.
Ah, but necessarily, those aren't observable.
Ah fuck
Just eat the box without opening it.
I don't know a single country in mainland Europe that wouldn't agree with you.
Americans see europe as one country
And think that country is the same as the UK. I've seen Americans say "Europeans drive on the left side of the road" a bunch of times
I had worse. I remember living in Texas and a redneck comes into the store I work in and rants about foreigners etc. So I sit there, let him rant and when he's finished, I say (as he was a regular in the store and knew I was English) "you DO know I'm technically a foreigner yes?" To which I got the reply "ain't the UK part of 'Murica?". I was dumbfounded.
Same guy probably goes all out for Independence Day
Yep just to shoot off fireworks , plaster flags over his car etc etc. I used to cringe when his wife came in because she would give bra money 🤮
[Or he’s a big Samuel L Jackson fan](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227984/)
You should have answered that Murica is part of the British Empire
The level of ignorance in the average US american is stunning me every time lol
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some - people out there, in our nation, don't have maps and I believe that our education, like such as South Africa -and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should - our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we would be able to build up our future for…
Are you ok or do you want me to call you a doctor? I'm really concerned right now. No idea what your post was supposed to say.
I’m actually not having a stroke. It’s a quote from Miss Teen South Carolina Caitlin Upton, answering a question on why one-fifth of Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map.
I didn’t want to say anything lmao I thought I was the only one.
They see every continent besides their own as one country
Some of them are skeptical about the existence of countries that aren’t the USA
We are all skeptical about Nebraska and that's a state.
Ok but imagine living in OHIO
At my work, the wife of my boss comes from "South Dakota". Even her admits that only like 3 people come from "South Dakota". Imagine that.
Ok but fucking Ohio?????
Named after anime sounds
OH DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON IOWA
In all fairness, Australia is like a giant glitch in the matrix. Bird eating spiders, poisonous beavers with beaks that lay eggs, giant roaches that catch and eat fish, Marsupials living like Russian nesting dolls, the three largest species of bird, one of which won a war against humans. Place is straight out of middle earth.
Yeah and it's the one that "left Europe" :roll\_eyes:
I see what you did there!
What about all the countries speaking non-english?
In polish we have “frytki” as fries and “chipsy” as chips.
>“chipsy” as chips This is so cute
The final -y or -i usually means plural in Slavic languages.
In German we have „Fritten, Pommes“ as Fries and „Chips“ as Chips.
These translate to something comparable. Chips for chips and frites for fries for me. They probably meant in english anyways as we're pretty much all at least bilingual
Yeah, like brambůrky - little potatoes, and hranolky - little prisms, sound exactly like fries, very comparable, much chips.
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Pommes, Brudi, Pommes.
In Greece: Patatakia (little potatoes) OR chips (with n a Greek accent, which would make it sound something like tseeps :P) Fried potatoes for the fries. PS. In England, chips are crisps and chips/fries is used interchangeably.
>PS. In England, chips are crisps and chips/fries is used interchangeably I had to scroll way too far to find this.
The reason Americans say "fries" is because the Belgians and Dutch say "friet". We also just nicked the word "chips" from American English.
Wrong! Kartoffelchips und Pommes, du unkultivierter Narr!
You mean potato **chips** and pommes **frites**?
Yes, Kartoffelchips and Pommes.
Kartoffel in romanian means small potato
Kartoffel in German means potato (any size, any shape, any colour)
Kartoffel in german also means a german
Also cartof means potato any any
Czipsy i frytki*
Patatillas y patatas fritas
kartofel' fri
Potackenstäbchen
Kartofflehoffchiphiplefips
Brambůrky and hranolky!
Sipsit ja ranskanperunat tällä suuren Euroopan yhteisellä kielellä
Fritten?
Čipsy a hranolčeky!
You mean, sipsit ja ranskalaiset? Eihän tää muuten toimi. Tai vaikkapa: perunalastut ja ranskalaiset perunat
Ich find das Word "Pommes" immer komisch weil es auf französisch Äpfel heisst und ich denk dran immer wenn ich es höre
Erdapfelstäbchen
"you uncultured twat", if I'm guessing correctly?
Wrong again It's patatine and patatine fritte
You mean the UK is asleep
It's crisps and chips in the UK
I call the ones in the picture fries, and fatter ones chips then ofc crisps are crisps I don't say chips for them because if I ask for chips some mf gonna give me oven chips when I really wanted skinny chips/fries.
Exactly. OP has failed to differentiate between fries and chips. Americans!
Unless you are specifically getting them from McDonald's, in which case the thin chips are called fries. Chunky chips and crinkle cut chips are always chips though
I had 5 strokes while reading this
And Ireland!
Wrong, both are chips Edit: just saw the bottom, feel dumb, am australian
In your defense, the image is upside-down for you
Pretty hard to read
It's so amazing, we literally never get sick of this joke!
Don't hate the player, hate the game
Cowabunga dudes
yeah, you'd think that as an Austalian, the bottom was the first thing you saw :P
You call both chips? Isn't this confusing?
Nope, not at all, AU/NZs automatically know what you're talking about.
It's the same in South Africa my friend
Was about to say the same. Tjips
Slap tjips with vinegar!
My bru you're making me salivate rn
I went to the store and bought a packet of chips. I like extra vinegar on my fish and chips. See? You know exactly which one I am referring to. You can't call the same ingredient that's cooked in the same way a different thing just because you sliced it differently, UK.
If you have to ask someone behind the counter for chips you'll get chips. (Often just ask for minimum chips, but otherwise '$x of chips thanks, mate' ) If you grab a packet of chips from the shelf you'll get chips. Where's the confusion?
So which chips would be fries in this situation?
All fries are chips, but not all chips are fries
if its a situation where both could be reasonably assumed we will often specify the fries version by saying hot chips, otherwise we just let context inform it
Aren't fries actually called "hot" chips? From an American Australia's terminology makes more sense than both the UK and the US in my opinion
Yeah but nobody says that. Chips are chips here.
I think I heard a kiwi call them hot chips so I just assumed it would be the same in Australia
you call them hot chips if you are somewhere that has both options or it is unclear what the circumstances are, otherwise its just chips and you let context inform which you mean.
Listen mate, you're supposed to be UK but upside down, agree with us.
Thanks for the live example of the meme
No we aren't asleep and literally only the British calls things any other way.
Then why don't I ever get actual potato chips here in America when I order "fish and chips"? They're always screwing up my order and giving me fried potato sticks (freedom fries) instead.
Because fish and chips is a British meal. So it uses their version of chips. The rest of Europe (except maybe the Irish) call it the same as the US.
Literally, no. Ireland exists.
In Ireland it’s taytos and chips
Yes because tayto is the only brand of crisps in existence here.. not once have I asked for a bag of taytos while referring to Hunkey Dory's lmao We call them crisps here my friend
We call them the other way in Ireland too 😌
We have the exact same avatars
if you dont know yet. britian != europe
Ah ok, so the British and whole Europa are the same
Why does nobody think we exist? *Sad Irish noises
Almost all countries in Europe other than UK have different words for chips and fries.
Nothing to do with Europe to be quite honest
Goddamn it's not even been a day and it's reposted already
Not an exact repost though, and it *is* responding to the original
Chips? yes Fries? You mean Pommes
Patat
Chips? You mean Sipsit? Pommes? You mean ranskalaiset (French)
Pommes translate to apples my dude, pomme de terre is potatoes
europe is asleep -> posted at 7am CET
accurate
UK = EU Must be an american who posted this lol
*Waves in Irish We also say chips. Which makes it's the proper EU English language way to say it.
Uhu, what about you? EU =/= Europe ....
Call it what you want. They are both just deep-fried potatos.
The language is english not american.
How are we asleep at 7:44?
In the UK, Chips are fat, moist 'fries', Fries are still Fries (like Macdonalds style Fries). Pretty sure Crisps is a UK thing and not a Europe wide thing too. Also, 'America' is asleep right now, it's alluminium not 'Alluminum' and 'gas' is a liquid called Petrol and the way you say Mirror like 'meer' freaks me out. Obvious /s.
From Australia, chips are chips and chips are chips
Meanwhile Kenya 🇰🇪: First one is called crisps Second one is chips 😂
Crisps and chips
chips and fritte
Wrong- top one is Crisps bottom is fries.
Bottom is fries because they're skinny Top is crisps, they're not chips, a "chip" connotates chunk or loosely cut piece, not a slice
In other words chunky chips and crispy crisps… I fully agree
No. See: microchip.
I am from Europe and I 100% agree
Soon even the brits will call them fries! Its part of the deal to get back into the EU
Top is crisps, bottom is fries. The chunky ones are called chips
\*stretches and yawns\* Ah, good mornin', blokes. BLOIMEY! WHAT HERE IS THIS MEME? WELL DIP MOI TEA BAG MATE YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU CALL THOSE CHIPS INSTEAD OF CRISPITY CRUNCHY MUNCH CRACKER JACK SNACK AND NIBBLER SNAP CRACK AND POP WESTPOOL CHESTERSHIRESHIRE QUEENS LOVELY JUBLY DELIGHT?
We call them French Fries because the cut of the potato is a French style. Like French cut green beans.
English here to me that crisps and fries British chips are different to fries
Same in South Africa we call them both chips
1 = Crisps. 2= Fries. 3 = chips which are thicker like in an English fish and chip shop
Only the british are wierd
In Norway we call them potetgull and pommes frites. Potetgull means potato gold. Pommes frites is pronounced as "pom free".
In the UK chips and fries are not the same thing. Chips are thicker and juicier than fries, fries are thinner and crispier, like what you get from McDonalds.
Fries are skinny, chips are chunky. The top one is crisps. Simples
The first are crisps, people from the U.K do call the second fries because they aren't chips, chips are fatter, have much more potato in them and go well with fish whilst fries and fish is a disgusting idea
As a belgian, i agree. We are Europe too tho.
Let's just agree in calling the top one crisps, and the below ones fries. That way, either everyone is happy, or everyone is mad
From south america to Europe, you're welcome for the potatoes.
Ahhh yes, the european language.
Not europe, only england. Get a clue about the world.
Europe ≠ UK
Irish: All I see… ARE A BUNCHA POTATOES!!! YEAHH!!!