Chip-hungry Olympic workers celebrate freedom from McDonald's monopoly

[oldironside]

The great London 2012 Olympic chip embargo has cracked. No longer will hungry workers at the games be denied pie and chips, chicken and chips or even just chips because of a monopoly enforced by McDonald's, a major sponsor.

On Wednesday, the London Organising Committee responded to plaintive cries of caterers who had grown tired of receiving "grief" from chip-hungry staff working on the opening and closing ceremonies and allowed chips to be served outside branches of the fast food chain McDonald's.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/11/mcdonalds-olympics-chips

McDonald's sell chips? That's news to me.


So, real chips and then that stuff McD's sells and claims is food. Bizarre.

[elleng]

1. 'Chips' in Brit English = Fr. Fries (kind of.)

Chips as in Potato Chips = Crisps.

[non sociopath skin]

2. I seem to remember that what MacDonald's sell is "cardboard" ....

.... although it's been a long time.

If you seek to know what "chips" are, see here:

http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-gills-wallsend/menu

This devilish emporium threatens me with obesity every time I teach at Wallsend.



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[dipsydoodle]

3. Almost

Chips are large deep fried pieces of potato and French Fries are long skinny ones. Crisps are paper / cardboard thin deep fried sections of potato.

Two nation divided by a common language.

Chips here :



This is lovingly known as the beer and chips song :

[oldironside]

4. To further illustrate what I meant...

Food:

Not food:

And, for my good friend T_i_B...
Beer:
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Not beer:

The Python fans will get this reference...

[T_i_B]

5. Old Speckled Hen?

Far better before Greedy Kerching took over the brand, moved production to Bury St Edmunds and utterly ruined the beer. Rev. James is good though.

There's also some nice German Weisse beers, not to mention the sheer wierdness of Rauchbier that I like.

As to food, I'm just waiting for somebody over here to start doing "Man V Food" style eating challenges. Maybe that could be a new Olympic event?

[oldironside]

6. I was trying...

... to find a generic picture of English beer pumps. The real point was the "Not beer:" part. I'm sure we can all agree on that.

[non sociopath skin]

7. Yeah, Rev James is good stuff.

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