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?

Bag of chips

Lunch box

Simples

single of chips.

Single = just the fish or pie or whatever.

Supper = the fish or whatever with chips .

Sausage roll = the pastry type

Roll with sausage= roll containing either link or square sausage .

What a minefield

Bag of chips, packet of fags, lunch box, dinner and tea ( Northern)
DH thinks the plural of soup is " soups" and over uses the word " set" as in " set of shorts" rather than pair!!

"One cod and chips please"

or

"Three cod and two bags of chips please"

or

"Six haddock and chips please"

or just

"Two haddock and no chips please"

Haddock is one of those words that doesn't have a plural version. Like "fish" or "sheep".

A single is just the chips. Fish can be ordered by name; but chips are just referred to as singles (double chips being two singles!)

I lived in Glasgow and Edinburgh for some years and it was always a 'poke' up there. A poke is a cone of paper made by twirling a square round and round.

Our chips in Norfolk are environmentally execrable as they're on a polystyrene tray wrapped in paper.

I'd say 'bag of chips'. And a' lunchbox'. ("The lunchbox has arrived..." )
But in mining communities it was a 'snap tin'.
Your dh may be from a region elsewhere. These terms are very localised.

Omg I haven't had an oyster in years....

We moved to the Midlands from Scotland and when my mum came to visit she asked in a shop for a poke, the poor guy didn't know where to look or what to do
I gave it a few seconds before I explained she would like a bag

Definitely 'one lot of chips'

And despitee having dinner in the middle of the day, it's a lunch box or a butty box. Dinner box is just weird

I get my African dh to step forward in the chippie to order, in an attempt to improve his English. He makes me die. He comes out with,

"'Ello,madame! I weesh for a feesh please, madame. And lottov cheeps. And for my wife, she weesh for a feesh also, but not lottov cheeps."

They know him well now, and he doesn't need to say a thing; the stuff is ready before he opens his mouth!

Poke of chips

Piece box

Tin of bru

(Scottish)

Oh InTheory! You've reminded me about the word 'piece'! A piece and jam.
In my first week in a primary school in Glasgow a 6yr old came up and said, "Miss! Miss! See him? He's got ma piece!" I needed an interpreter!

Bag of chips.

Bait Box. This one must be very regional as I had a southern friend in my car once who asked why there was a tub on the back seat of thw car "thats my bait box" - "oh I didnt know you were into fishing"

Ice cream van sells 99s, with or without monkeys blood. Pisses me off that they dont cost 99.

Its definitely a bag of chips. A portion, in a bag.

Portion of chips? Ours come in a plastic tray, wrapped in paper, so not a bag or a box or a packet.

In Yorks you can just say "twice" if you want two portions of fish and chips. So you could order "twice and a fish" which is 3 fish and 2 chips...

I was just about to say that Ghoul. Is the once, twice, three times etc universal or just a Yorkshire thing?

Anyway, I have a cast iron unbreakable 'no fish and chips outside West Yorkshire' rule, because the rest of the country do it wrong and they're Not Nice

Portion or bag of chips innit.

Try getting my husband to pronounce scone correctly and you will know true pain.

Lot or portion if wrapped in paper or in a box or if you don't know how'll they'll be served.

Bag if in a bag. Not very common around here, but one chippy do them like that.

My mum (Irish) thought it was a bit common to ask for a bag of chips, so she taught us to ask for a "portion " of chips. We got some looks in our local chippy (massive council estate in Nottingham)

I love all these different words for the same thing!

I've lived in Scotland, Cheshire and down south so I've heard and used them all.