• dwt@feddit.org
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    Took 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…
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      Long potato sticks are called chips in the UK and freedomnch fries in the US :)

      US chips are UK crisps, btw.

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      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”.

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        “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.

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          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!