What's causing Australia's frozen chip shortage and how long will it last?

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I always put the publication date as 6 months prior on my blogs - Consider it a form of time travel.

Chips

Chips. Although very occasionally you will hear crisps.

Often "hot chips" (french fries), as distinct from a "packet of chips" (crisps), but it's contextual: e.g. a Schnitzel with salad and chips, would always be with hot chips.

New Zealand uses "chips" for two kinds.

e.g. I'd use the name "chip sandwich" for a sandwich with crisps in them; a "chip butty" is sandwich with thick-cut french fries.

Crisps. Unless you are referring to a packet of chips, which you may also refer to as a bag of crisps, which you may also call chips. This is on the citizenship test, by the way. Every other answer is “Sir Donald Bradman”.

Thinly sliced fried potato in bags = chips.

French fries = hot chips if you need to disambiguate, but usually (eg on a restaurant menu) just chips.

Crisps has pretty entirely been overtaken by chips. Magnificent word though, sometimes I use it to either be funny or just remember the taste and texture of a sadly underutilised word.

It never applied to hot chips/ fries though, just the other kind.

If you want a raised eyebrow response, just ask "are you going to finish those crisps?"

They'll know what you mean, but they'll still act confused. It's great.

Help us all

Ok, I'll explain. It's not about people at home having to peel potatoes. Imagine you run a diner. You have low profit margins and you use frozen chips. It's a high volume item. Most customers order chips. A 25kg bag of potatoes is about 30 portions. You might use 100kg of raw potatoes in a day.

Have you ever peeled, chipped, parboiled, and possibly pre-fried 100kg of potatoes? I certainly haven't but I imagine it's at least a shift of work for a member of staff. Which means you need to hire someone. You might also need to buy a commercial potato peeler which cost $1000-$3000 US. Then a month or two later the shortage is over, you go back to frozen. Do you fire the new staff? Sell the machine?

I think it's funny, although it does go against the guideline of not editorializing headlines. Changing the title wouldn't really make sense as I believe the whole submission was meant as a joke around the changed title to deceit hacker news readers.

EUV multi-pattern potatoes

They’re not shellfish.

Pretty sure you mean a potato fritter.

Those Victorians need to go back to skew-el (it's hard to write their pronunciation of school...)