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minus-squaredwt@feddit.orglinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up18·2 days agoTook me some time to figure this out as a non native speaker: lift, easy flat, that took a while Chipped, didn’t even know that idiom…
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-22 days agoLong potato sticks are called chips in the UK and freedomnch fries in the US :) US chips are UK crisps, btw.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoThat’s another chip up the nose, I’m afraid. -A Fish Called Wanda
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoYes, the first two are obvious, but I didn’t get the last one. Mainly because “to french fry” isn’t an actual verb, afaik. Alternative could have been “has an RFID transponder implanted”.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days ago“French fried potatoes” is an archaic term but not unheard of. I know of it mostly from the song “Cheeseburger in Paradise”. It can be used to give a country or homemade feel to French fries.
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoI had to look up the existence of the song and its lyrics to make sure your post wasn’t the Al hallucination that it at first sounded like to me. 😆 Interesting trivia!
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 days agoAll Jimmy Buffet songs sound like AI hallucinations, but they were just normal human drug induced hallucinations.
Took me some time to figure this out as a non native speaker:
Long potato sticks are called chips in the UK and fre
edomnch fries in the US :)US chips are UK crisps, btw.
That’s another chip up the nose, I’m afraid. -A Fish Called Wanda
Yes, the first two are obvious, but I didn’t get the last one.
Mainly because “to french fry” isn’t an actual verb, afaik.
Alternative could have been “has an RFID transponder implanted”.
“French fried potatoes” is an archaic term but not unheard of. I know of it mostly from the song “Cheeseburger in Paradise”. It can be used to give a country or homemade feel to French fries.
I had to look up the existence of the song and its lyrics to make sure your post wasn’t the Al hallucination that it at first sounded like to me. 😆
Interesting trivia!
All Jimmy Buffet songs sound like AI hallucinations, but they were just normal human drug induced hallucinations.