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(Hot) chips are fat, fries are thin.
Yes but you would never order fries, you would say chips still. We have some very confusing rules on this apparently.
I don't think it's very confusing when you remember that we don't get (non-hot) chips (crisps) as a side dish to any meal.
Like in the U.S. you can get either as a side. In Australia if it says (or you ask for) chips, you get hot chips (fries).
Chips (crisps) are just a standalone snack here.
Would you order chips at maccas? I wouldn’t.
Yes
What do yanks call thick cut chips? It seems "burger and fries" is burned into their national psyche (leading to memes such as these) but surely they have a word for the non shoestring fry version. Wedges? 🤔
Anyway, the Brits have probably got it right on this occasion, but context definitely helps with the dual usage in Aus. I'm not going to have fish and chips with crisps, and a packet of chips isn't going to be of the hot variety.
Either potato wedges if they're actually wedge shaped or steak fries if they're more rectangular.
Steak fries
Hot chips and lie
Hot chips are hot.
Chips are not.