If I'm not mistaken, what you call chips, as in fish and chips, is what we call french fries, sliced potatoes fried in a pan of grease or cooking oil.
What you call crisps is what we call potato chips, which are store-bought, like the potatoes cut into flat circles if you will, more paper thin than home cooked french fries, tho we did once just cut the potatoes into flat circles, like potato chips but not the same.
Or what you call crisps, we call potato chips, but they are manufactured, sitting in a store, not freshly cooked.
While the french fries are best served after they have cooled down after cooking.
My mother is English, so at best, we have kind of deduced my having to watch things like On The Buses is an untouched English vein within me.
When I watched the first shows, Stan and Jack were carrying on, my mother walked thru and said, "Good Lord, I left all that to get away from it and you go and bring it over here!"
If they make references to something a bit more (then) current, obviously that loses me, but oddly enough, the slang I tend to eventually follow, maybe not right off.
The same thing just happened watching an American sitcom, also 40 years old, and they referred to going to see a movie I've never heard of. Can't recall the movie now, but it was strange to hear it tossed out there and now it is lost in obscurity.
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