To think my OH is just wrong and that's it? (Lighthearted)

[lbsjob87]

OK, here's a question. If you go to the local chippy, what do you get your chips in?
It's a BAG isn't it? A bag of chips is a thing. But my OH insists on calling it "a packet of chips".
I have told him countless times, chips come in a bag, crisps are in a packet (although with crisps it's interchangeable).
I'm right, here, aren't I?

Also, he calls his work lunchbox a dinner box, even though he eats lunch from it at lunchtime.

I realise this isn't the most pressing issue I could face, and there are far bigger ones in our lives, but I wanted a straw poll to see who agrees with me?

YANBU it is a bag of chips.

Oh it's definitely a bag! And a lunch box. My DH says that he is going to 'send' me somewhere when he means drop me off somewhere. And he says 'forks and knives' rather than 'knives and forks'!

Chippies in edinburgh it's definitely more a packet than a bag. In that it starts off as a square of brown paper that the chips are then wrapped in. Definitely not a bag.

It's a poke. That is all.

LTB I couldnt be dealing with that shit

It's bad enough that dp calls his lunch dinner and dinner tea!

I say a box of cigarettes (I don't know why) and DH always replies 'a packet'.

It's always a bag of chips though.

yanbu

A poke? A poke? I've never heard of that - where in the country are you?

Definitely a bag. I would ask for a bag of chips or a portion of chips but NEVER a packet!

A friend of mine calls it a tin of Coke

How could you marry someone who referred to packets of chips and dinner boxes? How can you look at your reflection in the mirror and not burn with shame.

'poke' is very Scottish.

And indeed I am in Scotland . A poke is a paper bag. So I guess in translation I'd say bag, not packet. except I say poke

There is no such thing as a dinner box. When have you ever heard anyone referring to Linford Christie's dinner box?

But surely a poke is an ice- cream from the poke van

Isbeau it is a tin of juice

The 'poke van' sounds like a mobile brothel.

No wiggle that's a cone!

A bag of chips and a snap box.

Lived in Edinburgh all my life , Never heard of a packet of chips . It's a bag .
If fact never heard it called a packet anywhere .

No a cone is the wafer that the ice cream is deposited in, a poke is said wafer with Mr Whippy ice cream - a poke man, a poke van, a poke

Bag of chips. Sandwich box.

My DH says theeatter for theatre and peeannist for pianist, both with a strong accent on the a.

He is wrong on both counts.

In Northern Ireland, "poke" is the word for an ice-cream cone, Lonny.