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Fish and chips (introduced to the UK by Jewish immigrants in the 1800s) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] Ajdee6@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever you wanna call them, but they aren't chips thats for damn sure

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Firites is where Americans got the term fries from Europe. The UK always called hunks of things cut off chips. So cut off chunks of poatoes are chips.

Fish and chips, which is the correct term in the US too, when it's fish and chips, so they are in fact chips, right?