Question: How are fries different from chips?
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British chips are usually thicker than American-style French fries sold by major multinational fast food chains, resulting in a lower fat content per portion.
In their homes or in non-chain restaurants, people in or from the United States may eat a thick type of chip, more similar to the British variant, sometimes referred to as steak fries.
How much cooking fat soaks into the potato depends on the surface area and how long they are cooked.
Chips have a smaller surface area per unit weight than French fries, which means absorbing less oil in a given time.
On the other hand, chips, being thicker, take longer to cook than fries. 
Although chips were already a popular dish in most Commonwealth countries, the thin style of French fries has been popularized worldwide in part by the large American fast-food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Arby's.
Pre-made French fries have been available for home cooking since the 1960s, usually having been pre-fried (or sometimes baked), frozen and placed in a sealed plastic bag.
Some later varieties of French fries are battered and breaded, and many fast-food chains in the U.S. dust the potatoes with kashi, dextrin, and other flavor coatings for crispier fries with particular tastes.
Results with batterings and breadings, followed by microwaving, have not achieved widespread critical acceptance.
Oven frying delivers a dish different from deep-fried potatoes. 
Variants of French fries include "thick-cut fries", "steak fries", "shoestring fries", "jojos", "crinkle fries", "curly fries", "hand-cut fries" and "tornado fries".
Fries cut into rough cubes instead of sticks are called "home fries".
Fries cut thickly with the skin left on are called "potato wedges", and fries without the skin are called "steak fries", essentially the American equivalent of the British "chip".
They can also be coated with breading, spices, or other ingredients, which include garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, paprika, and salt to create "seasoned fries", cheese to create "cheese fries", or chili to create "chili fries".
Sometimes, French fries are cooked in the oven as a final step in the preparation (having been coated with oil during preparation at the factory): these are often sold frozen and are called "oven fries" or "oven chips".
Some restaurants and groceries in North America offer French fries made from sweet potatoes instead of traditional white potatoes.
In France, the thick-cut fries are called "Pommes Pont-Neuf" or simply "pommes frites", about 10 mm; thinner variants are "pommes allumettes" (matchstick potatoes), ±7 mm, and "pommes paille" (potato straws), 3–4 mm (roughly ⅜, ¼ and ⅛ inch respectively).
The two-bath technique is standard (Bocuse).
"Pommes gaufrettes" or "waffle fries" are not typical French fried potatoes, but actually crisps obtained by quarter-turning the potato before each next slide over a grater and deep-frying just once.
This results in large flat fries with two layers, each of which consists of parallel strips of potato.
In an interview, Burger King president Donald Smith said that his chain's fries are sprayed with a sugar solution shortly before being packaged and shipped to individual outlets.
The sugar caramelizes in the cooking fat, producing the golden color customers expect.
McDonald's was assumed to fry their fries for a total time of about 15 to 20 minutes, and with fries fried at least twice. 
French fries (American English) or chips, fries, finger chips, or French-fried potatoes are batons of deep-fried potato.
Americans and most Canadians refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as "fries", while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of fried potatoes are sometimes called "fries" to distinguish them from the more thickly cut strips called chips.
French fries are served hot and generally eaten as an accompaniment with lunch or dinner, or eaten as a snack, and they are a common fixture of fast food.
French fries are generally salted and, in their simplest and most common form, are served with ketchup; in many countries, though, they are topped instead with other condiments or toppings, including vinegar, mayonnaise, or other local specialities.
Fries can also be topped more elaborately, as is the case with the dishes of poutine and chili cheese fries.
Sometimes, fries are made with sweet potatoes instead of potatoes, are baked instead of fried, or are cut into unusual shapes, as is the case with curly fries, wavy fries, or tornado fries.
Tubby's offers more than twenty different types of submarine sandwiches, most of which are served grilled.
In addition, the chain serves several sides, including french fries, onion rings, potato chips, cheese sticks, and soft drinks.