I'ma wondering if fish and chips will be on today's list of things to do.

Bluddy lottry didn't offer to pay fur it again. I did get one number, but it seems you need more than that. These folks are never satisfied.

Yes. They are.

Is there a good chippy around where you live?

If there is, I'd be amazed. [/cynical]

Well, there is a quite respectable chippy in North Fort Myers, so it wouldn't surprise me!

I need testimonials.

Exit 58 on the I-4. Brilliant British chippy restaurant. Beer/wine on menu too.

There's another further down Highway 27, in Davenport. Scruffy place, small, untidy - but amazeballs fish n chips.

We had one, here in Kissimmee, but they lost all the customers when Publix pulled out of the mall.

Squeak, there's the... iirc, Rose and Crown in Broward, if you get back down that way ever. You'll have to check it out.

(I'm just into the chips, myself.)

Tanarian : Really good chips are incredibly rare, almost nonexistent

Yus.

I confess that my standards for chips are incredibly low. I think it likely that I have never had true chips. I happily settle for a few nice french fries.

This is the chippy in North Fort Myers: https://www.okukfishnchips.com/

They also sell British candies.

Nicest - but singularly most expensive - I have had in the USA were from the British chippy (Harry Ramsdens) in EPCOT, Walt Disney World.

No surprise there.

GarlicMyfi : In this context chips and fries at the same thing? If not, then my lamentation about chips was meant to be about fries.

[recoils]

That's an odd reaction

Fries are easymode.

That is a puzzling statement to me. Here fries and chips (in this context, not potato chips, of course) are the same thing; not there?

Not really part of the conversation, but I see "fries" as the scrawny thin things from McDonalds. "Chips" in this context are four times thicker and chunkier. "Wedges" are double the size again (and fall out of the bread when you try to make "chip butties".

The KFC Potato Wedges are about the closest things most Americans get to proper "chips", at least in size - the batter-frying makes them different in taste and texture. "French fries"/"pomme frites" can either be potato cut into lengthwise thin square-sectioned, or potato extruded into the same shape. "Crisps" are what Americans (Canadians?) call "chips".

This translation lesson brought to you by Idaho Potatoes.

So when I say fries or chips (in the UK sense of chips), I'm talking about the whole family of (mostly) stick-shaped, deep fried potato foods. I completely agree that there is nearly an infinite number of sub-varieties.

Squeak =^..^= : This is your plurk; of course you're part of the conversation!

I was looking fur some info I found a few years ago - but they changed it now.

The city of Kissimmee has a lake, Lake Tohopekaliga, about 16 miles south of Orlando. The banks of which were a Seminole indian reservation. The translation from Seminole to English DID have it as "potato eating place".......

.......but now they say it means "we will gather together here".

Gather together to eat potatoes?

Sure. What time?
I get discounts on airboat rides.

I'll bring the malt vinegar, I only like salt on mine.