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Drooping?
"[Chips]... are very similar to French fries, the distinction being that fries are much thinner and may droop. A chip, by contrast, will always remain straight even when a little pressure is applied."
Surely the other way around? A cardboardy fry could be used to jab someone in the eye after being cooked; by contrast, a thicker chip tends to be softer and therefore more liable to drooping. Stand on a dropped fry and it might puncture your shoe - whereas a chip gets mashed into your sole. Anton Sweeney 18:24, 14 June 2007 (CDT)
- As a fairly experienced cook, I think the key element here is how *long* the individual item has been cooked. A skinny little french fry can be overcooked until it's like a stick. And obviously if you take an Idaho potato and cut it into, say, 4 lengthwise pieces, each piece is gonna be so thick that it will *never* droop. But otherwise I think you're right in one sense: I think this "droop" business should be eliminated. It's clearly one of those things where it's sometimes this, sometimes that....
- Particularly if french fries are cooked in two batches: sometimes the 95% cooked fries are put back into hot oil and allowed to overcook -- it can only be a couple of seconds too many but they mostly ruined.... Hayford Peirce 18:30, 14 June 2007 (CDT)
- I have reluctantly removed the bit about droopy French fries. Clearly, some droop and others don't. John Stephenson 23:56, 14 June 2007 (CDT)
Nomenclature
Chips are indeed a bit heartier in the UK, and the 'pommefritz' you can buy from street vendors in Berlin are even better! But despite this, it seems to me that "chip" (UK) = "french fry" or "fries" (US) (just as Potato Chip in the US = Crisp in the UK). Russell Potter 18:47, 14 June 2007 (CDT)
- that's to say,. I do not think a "chip" is a fundamentally different thing from fries or pommefritz. Russell Potter 09:03, 15 June 2007 (CDT)
- I'm tempted to make a disambiguation page for chips; one that includes an entry for a television show starting the one and only Eric Estrada.--Robert W King 10:38, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
- Do it!! John Stephenson 10:41, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
- I'm tempted to make a disambiguation page for chips; one that includes an entry for a television show starting the one and only Eric Estrada.--Robert W King 10:38, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
Chips photos
See Talk:French fries; I have uploaded some chips to French fries as well as this page so sceptics can compare the two. John Stephenson 02:54, 16 June 2007 (CDT)
- A casual reader from Mars, etc, might conclude from your pic of the chippy that they have very few customers! It might be an idea to have a pic which shows the social context, as this is mentioned in the article. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 08:20, 16 June 2007 (CDT)