This initially had me confused as I forgot that Americans call crisps as ‘chips’. Our chips are something else. We did laugh when we went to NY on a holiday and the waiter told us that the meal came with chips. We thought he was Anglicising the word for us as he recognised us as being from the UK (probably from our accents), expecting our version of ‘chips’ to turn up – call them French fries (but they’re not). But when it turned up, it was actually with crisps.
This initially had me confused as I forgot that Americans call crisps as ‘chips’. Our chips are something else. We did laugh when we went to NY on a holiday and the waiter told us that the meal came with chips. We thought he was Anglicising the word for us as he recognised us as being from the UK (probably from our accents), expecting our version of ‘chips’ to turn up – call them French fries (but they’re not). But when it turned up, it was actually with crisps.