Talk about absence of common sense.

MARGE! Lisa won't let me have my cup of gravy!

MARGE! Lisa won't let me have my cup of gravy!

another step in the plumping of children worldwide.

I swore the headline said swimming clubs a minute ago... I wondered why that was assinine... did they make people wait an hour or what?

A packet of crisps?
"Oh, it's Cricket! Marvelous game, really. You see, the bowler hurls the ball toward the batter who tries to play away a fine leg. He endeavors to score by dashing between the creases, provided the wicket keeper hasn't whipped his bails off, of course!"
/wants my Clam back

I'd have preferred lollipops and crisps...

Haha, headline says "crisps." Oh those British...

It is CRISPS, dammit.

Crazy yanks coming over here telling us how to use our own bleedin language!

"Slimming club serves doughnuts and crisps"
WHAT THE HELL ARE CRIPS ? Last time I looked, this wasn't news, and neither was it Fark.co.uk, it's Fark.com !!!!

What the hell is a crisp?

Toranga

Your language? Thats a thought, you guys butchered english worse than your food.

Aren't "crisps" just potato chips that have been boiled ?

No, crisps are a bastardization of the word chips.

Damn I thought it said "swimming club" too. I thought maybe they were having problems with people eating food and jumping into the pool before their thirty minute wait was up or something.

Quick! Twenty seven people ask 'what the hell is a crisp'!!!

"Slimming" is British for "swimming". They like wet doughnuts.

Crisp, lol

Reactron, they can go to hell.... Dunkin Donuts is ours, not theirs!

The language may be called English, but I think the nation that invented the potato chip should get to determine what it's called.

Damn right, we invented the potato chip, what the hell good has ever come out of England?

Dunkin' Donuts serves boiled potato chips and doughnuts soaked in chlorine ? I thought that was strictly British fare.

...waiting for someone to comment on the story's spelling of "doughnuts" ... well, they invented the language, so I guess it's cool with me. Well, the bright side is that this comment took me .00000425 seconds less for me to complete, thanks to the absence of extra "u"'s in some words. darn...and I just typed "doughnuts" before ...d'oh..did it again. Make that .000000421 seconds.

now now guys.. Come on this is fark, You can't say anything negative about other countries, You're only allowed to bash the US and make stereotypical comments about it's citizens. Any other clichs outside that are old and tired and just plain mean!

The only good thing to come out of England was Mad Cow diesease because so many Brits died.

"Doughnuts" is far more proper than "donuts". They are, after all, nuts made out of dough. Pip pip, and all that.

And to answer your question Marge, we have hamburgers and french fries over here, but we call french fries "chips".

Yours truly,
Ringo

P.S.: Forgive the lateness of my reply.

Ah but my droogs, we all know that chips are real horrorshow... bloody hell. When you eat chips, you get that feeling all in your guttiwuts.

You eunich jelly, thou.

/Clockwork Orange freak who can't spell

Speak American, dammit!

I wasn't bashing. I'm merely guilty of bad form. Should have included the ubiquitous "not that there's anything wrong with that". British food is actually eaten by many people.

so "crisps" are "chips" and "chips" are "french fries" but "french fries" are "freedom fries"? (ok, that fr'dm fries thing is a little crazy...thank goodness we don't actually use that term)

mmmmm guttiwuts......drool. wait!...gutti....wut?

The best fries I've ever had in my whole life were at a fitness club.

It's a racket I tells ya.

Well, my father's name being Pirrip, and my given name being Philip, my infant tounge...

"slimming club", "crisps", oh how I love our goofy British cousins. They have funny names for everything.

And thay have very silly walks. Hard to believe they can swim and eat doughnuts and boiled chips at the same time. I wonder what they call Pringles over there. Anyone have a recipe for boiled Pringles ?

Were the heads of the breakfast clubs also a part of the police force? or maybe caring mothers of police officers that found doughnuts to be the way to get those boys going... nothing like giving children or our police force a sugar rush to get them going, but woe to the people that cross their paths!!!

"Slimming club"? How quaint. I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel.

Doc Martin: uh, Americans? After all, you're in New York which if you're marginally educated you'd know was named after the northern England city of York. And before you flame no I'm not Irish, just have Irish heritage. I was born in Chicago.

irishlad78

Nah. It's still New Amsterdam in our eyes. Oh, how history could have changed ...

Doughnut is the proper American spelling and therefore that used by Krispy Kreme, the supreme masters of doughnut making. Donut is just a bastardization popularized through Advertising. However, due to this adaptation the donut variant returns nearly double the hits as doughnut on google.

http://www.bartleby.com/68/16/2016.html

American-to-British Dictionary

What Americans call...is what Brits call...

Chips = Crisps
Fries = Chips
Drunk = Pissed
= Bits
Horse Piss = Beer
Cigarette = Fag
Fag = Tony Blair

I thought 'bits' were the male anatomy?

The article should have read:

SCHOOL breakfast clubs aimed at giving kids a healthy start and curbing obesity have been SLAMMED for serving doughnuts and crisps.

A STUDY found those who ate at the clubs were not offered fruit or cereal and, on average, exceeded the adult maximum daily salt intake.

Margo Barker, a Sheffield University nutritionist who studied meals at three schools, said: This is abysmal.

Health officials admitted yesterday that many clubs did not make sure children ate healthy food.

Gaw, w'as wrong wit the weigh i tawk?

It's Bushs fault...somehow.

I myself enjoy doing my browsing at www.fark.uk.

In the land of the limeys, the one-toothed man is king.

We call 'chips' crisps because they are crisp.

We call 'fries' chips because of the shape; the are chipped potatoes (e.g. shaped like wood chips).

Crisps aren't potato chips and both are fried, so I'm afraid its the Americans who've taken out perfectly good system and farked it up.

I thought crisps were f-ing cookies?!

What school would take the time to serve Doughnuts and FRIES?