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johnfowles · 10-08-2004, 10:42 AM

mummph Vinegar hate it in excess on anything
(a waste of grapes).
Anyway you are all completely missing the point
In England where "fish and chips" no doubt originated a "chip" is a friggin "french fry" and what you yanks call a "chip" is
a good old potato crisp in the terminolgy of their inventors (the no longer available?? Smiths Crisps not sodden Lays)

picture of a latter day Smiths packet (after they tried to push the inclusion of the hitherto traditional do-it-yourself salt packet)
IMHO the incorrect American use of "french fries" is purely due to the subservience in the 18th century by the newly independant folks on this side of the pond (including Canadians but that is another story) to all things/syatems/words from their recent allies in "frog-eating" France. Hence the fact that you all over here drive on the wrong side of the road and also that the Americans do not have a logical Left and Right sitting arrangement in their legislative assemblies, but rather the elected people are seated (as in France) in a stupid circle resulting in endlees shades/leanings of political thought and consequent confusion among the voters (just watch the current presidential debates here and try to decide just who is on the "left wing" (politically not the television series duh...)
Now where was I?? Oh yes vinegar!!
It is a fact that in most of the UK fish and chip emporiums the servers tend to have a very heavy hand with both the salt and vinegar shakers so unless you specify "just a little salt and vinegar please" it is almost impossible to taste the delicacy of the fish or the chips
in trying to find a pic of a Smiths crisps packet I found:-
http://www.bubblegun.com/culturepop/chrisps.html
which incudes a quiz (one answer to the final question is of course
"Gay-Poo Bumhole Piss Crisps" to which the obvious retort US style is go figure!!)
and which is good for a good few chuckles including:
"We’re also missing the long-gone Smiths, and their benchmark Cheese And Onion and Salt And Vinegar, and their abortive
attempt to introduce flavoured Salt And Shake crisps. Even so, Smith’s standard Ready Salted always tasted like someone had
pulled their trousers down, and sat in the vat on a hot summer’s afternoon."
quote:Originally posted by Gord re "Mayo on fries???":
ewwwwwwwwwww
I recall that in Holland the purchase of their "patates frites" inevitably entailed a liberal spread of Mayo which I personally prefer over vinegar any old day
So there!!

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10-08-2004, 10:42 AM	#43
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	mummph Vinegar hate it in excess on anything (a waste of grapes). Anyway you are all completely missing the point In England where "fish and chips" no doubt originated a "chip" is a friggin "french fry" and what you yanks call a "chip" is a good old potato crisp in the terminolgy of their inventors (the no longer available?? Smiths Crisps not sodden Lays) picture of a latter day Smiths packet (after they tried to push the inclusion of the hitherto traditional do-it-yourself salt packet) IMHO the incorrect American use of "french fries" is purely due to the subservience in the 18th century by the newly independant folks on this side of the pond (including Canadians but that is another story) to all things/syatems/words from their recent allies in "frog-eating" France. Hence the fact that you all over here drive on the wrong side of the road and also that the Americans do not have a logical Left and Right sitting arrangement in their legislative assemblies, but rather the elected people are seated (as in France) in a stupid circle resulting in endlees shades/leanings of political thought and consequent confusion among the voters (just watch the current presidential debates here and try to decide just who is on the "left wing" (politically not the television series duh...) Now where was I?? Oh yes vinegar!! It is a fact that in most of the UK fish and chip emporiums the servers tend to have a very heavy hand with both the salt and vinegar shakers so unless you specify "just a little salt and vinegar please" it is almost impossible to taste the delicacy of the fish or the chips in trying to find a pic of a Smiths crisps packet I found:- http://www.bubblegun.com/culturepop/chrisps.html which incudes a quiz (one answer to the final question is of course "Gay-Poo Bumhole Piss Crisps" to which the obvious retort US style is go figure!!) and which is good for a good few chuckles including: "We’re also missing the long-gone Smiths, and their benchmark Cheese And Onion and Salt And Vinegar, and their abortive attempt to introduce flavoured Salt And Shake crisps. Even so, Smith’s standard Ready Salted always tasted like someone had pulled their trousers down, and sat in the vat on a hot summer’s afternoon." quote:Originally posted by Gord re "Mayo on fries???": ewwwwwwwwwww I recall that in Holland the purchase of their "patates frites" inevitably entailed a liberal spread of Mayo which I personally prefer over vinegar any old day So there!! ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 08, 2004).]