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?

Someone up thread mentioned a barm. My DP thinks that is hilarious and 'wrong'. He is from the East Midlands and beyond help as far as I am concerned. He will never know the delights of a chip barm. More fool him.

Here in New Zealand it's a scoop of chips or a pottle of chips. (A pottle is the name for a small pot, so normally is a large paper cup or a cone for chips, so is the smaller amount). Of course crisps are also chips here, which is confusing...

And it's definitely lunch box

Thank you ladies, my sanity has been restored. I love all these regional variations, but notice that none of them accept "packet of chips" because it's just plain wrong. And dinner box is just not what it it is, because that would be a box with dinner in it. Like spuds and that.
He's originally from Oxfordshire but now lives in Kent so he can't claim it as a Scottish thing either.

I have no immediate plans to LTB, but if I do, I will definitely cite these among my reasons. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact he shares my utter contempt for misplaced apostrophes, I think we'd have been done years ago.

I just say "can I have a small large chips please"

Bag/poke/packet etc doesn't come into it

portion of chips

no bag, cone, packet or box here

No chip barms here in Coventry. It is most definitely a chip batch. We've had some very queer looks on holiday asking for these

Oh I've just scranned a roll n fritters n a single sausage because of this thread.

On my mind all day in work. Man it was good. Freshly cooked and doused in salt n vinegar. Yum yum yum. thank gawd OH is away out for night. Guilt free chippy

We say 'portion', as in 'small portion of chips please', but usually just abbreviated to 'small/large chips please.' Definitely not bag, although I don't think that 'bag of chips' is wrong, just not what we say. 'Packet of chips' is so wrong that it needs to go and sit in the corner quietly and think about how wrong it is.

This is sunny Liverpool, by the way. We have chip barms here too. LOVE a good chip barm!

Is a barm a roll?

Teacake.

teacakes have chocolate on them.

Poke of chips

Chip roll

Playpiece or tuck for morning snack

Piece box

Pokey hat (ice cream cone)

Tin of Irn Bru

Roll an' sausage (roll containing square or link)

Sausage roll (as in Greggs)

Portion of chips
Bag of crisps
Packet of chips is just wrong.

Lot / portion of chips

Chip barm

Snack

Dinner is lunch

Tea is dinner

Butty box

Cornet (ice cream cone)

Sausage butty / barm

Teacake has raisins in

Sausage roll (Gregg's)

Can (of drink - eg vimto)

hatesspiders...dh was asked if he wanted anyone to get him a fancy piece from the bakers when he was having his coffee break

once colleagues had explained they were not pimping out the bakery staff he asked for a jam doughnut and was horrified to have a plain doughnut cut in half, with jam spread on it.

20+years on he has just about forgiven me for dragging him from the SW England to the darkest reaches of NE Scotland.

And getting back to the point, Poke of chips, Fish Supper, Can of Juice.

Another Edinbugger here, and even though they don't really come in a bag, it's still a bag of chips! I've only ever heard poke used for some of the chip vans where you get them in a wee paper/cardboard cone

Bag of chips, lunch box, packet of crisps, can of coke

And for the last fecking time it's scone as in cone, cream first then jam.

Sigh.

I refuse to get into the bread debate.

BUT

A tea cake is plain bread

A currant teacake is just what it says.

And a bunny is a bridge roll.

OK?

I prefer the generic 'bread' as an all encompasser.

Or baked goods.

pretentious

You are both being U

Its fries not chips and chips not crisps
no one talks about the container

and you are rightt is a lunch box

qwebec nooo! I'm holding out against the chips/crisps thing despite living in a country that uses hot chips for chips and chips for crisps as it just too confusing, I actually got stopped by a passing British woman the other day when talking to my DC who told me it was lovely to hear the word crisps

Yanbu
Bag of chips
Lunch box
Packet of crisps

Can of coke
Tin of beans

I'm in Ireland and never heard chips referred to as singles! Here it's reg or large