by 2dimes on Sat May 02, 2020 6:22 am
You can't get potato chips at McDonalds.
Are you guys still calling French fries, chips, down there? Pom Frite were never called chips in the United States of America unless specifically served with fish as "fish n chips".
Here in Canada up until the 1980s it could be confusing, since as we were attatched to the US we never used the term crisps.
As a commonwealth, chips could mean potatoes prepared two very different ways. Typically if you prefaced it with Potato that meant the hard thin sliced snack that comes in a bag or tube and are ok eaten at room temperature for weeks. And just chips was often French fries that can be pretty disappointing once they cool off and get soggy.
Since the 1990s we decided to tag along with the US regarding nomenclature since they are the leaders in that sort of cuisine, chips = crisps and French fries = the potato part of fish and chips.
I think it happened because of the policy at McDonalds to ask, "Would you like fries with that?" after every item ordered. It eventually changed to, "Meal or just the Sandwich?"