A rage comic poking fun at the Aussies. Does it still hold up?

As an Australian I can comment on this, theres this wonderful thing called "Context"

At McDonalds they refer to them as fries, but if you ask for a large chips, they know what you mean. If you go into a petrol station and ask where the crisps are, nobodies head explodes. If you go into a place that has ALL 3 (french fries, chips and crisps) and say "Can I get some chips" the person will ask for clarificaton.

British roots and American television has made OUR english quite flexible.

I was with you until "ALL 3"... help
- French fries and chips
  As a rule most people I know think of french fries or fries as thin cut and chips as thick cut. Most restaraunts only do one or the other. If you ask for steak and chips and they do fries, they will either clarify for you (more likely) or just bring you fries.
What do they ask in order to clarify?
ETA: "french fries or crisps?"
- Not many places offer both, but "a packet of barbeque chips" vs "$5 worth of chips" or "small chips" are were distinct
  In the imaginary situation where there are all three (why not more!)
  chips (thick hot chips)
  fries (thin hot chips)
  packet of chips (crisps)
Pretty much.

it holds, but we might refer to "fries" as hot chips if there's possibility of confusion

I would say the distinction between fries and chips is the thickness.
Macca's has fries, KFC and a lot of other places have chips.
- Do they have Red Rooster and Chicken Treat in the US?
I dunno, man. It's always been 'hot chips' for people I know if clarification is needed

It's context sensitive. We know what we mean.

"I'm going to pick up some chips on my way to your place."
"Hey, can i have some of your chips?"

Couldn't be simpler.

- Do you mean, chups and chuppies?
- We also say chips and chips. If you need to clarify, crisps are "potato chips" and chips are "hot chips". A chippie is a shop that sells (fish and) chips, not the chips themselves.

They're Hot Chips if you're being fancy

Eat hot chip and lie
- All we know how to do is
- Have you heard the song?

Shut up and get some real i.e. Belgian fries.

as an Australian let me explain, fast to get, unhealthy potato = chips.

That does seem simpler at least.

This isn't poking fun at us, this is just facts :)

Let's confuse them even more:

Hot chips and potato chips.

How about a bag of French Fries potato chips?

You see, Chips are deep fried slices of potato, but Chips are ..

Hot chips and potato chips if you need to be specific, for everything else there's context.
- potato chips
  Because hot chips are made from beets, of course :p

They’re freedom fries now

Never forget

Errr... I'm from the UK and they're fries. These are chips

If it's think it's fries, if it's thick it's a chip.

I'm American, and I'd call those steak fries. We also have potato wedges, which aren't called fries for some reason and look like this
They're seasoned with a spice blend, and delicious. Do you have curly fries in the UK? They're a similar flavor.
- We have wedges and curly fries here in the UK too :). We have Chips, Fries, Curly Fries, Potato Wedges, Salt and Pepper chips, Ziggy Fries and many more I assume
- wedges might be the only one I would only ever refer to as wedges and never as chips, while fries, crisps, hot chips are all "chips" as an australian
- Yes we do and they are delicious.
Came here to say this, McDonald's give you fries, fish and chip shop gives you chips
In the US, those would be called either “steak fries”, “potato wedges”, or perhaps “Jojos”.
- They're called JoJo's. I will die on this hill. Same goes for pop and hotdish.
Yep, proper chips are thick cut.
The shops sometimes call them chips as well, as if they think just any rectangular cut potato qualifies to be a chip.
Calling those thin things chips should be an offence.

My friend from Adelaide always says crisps.

Usually not a problem because of context but you can easily specify hot chips or packet chips in places where they might have both such as a school or sports canteen.

- American here. Yeah, chips/crisps are sold in restaurants. They’re usually bagged too lmao. Like the restaurant just got them from the supermarket.
Chips (or crisps) don’t seem to exist anywhere but grocery/convenience stores.
That... that's normal, right? That's where chips are supposed to come from.
Like, I have been to a restaurant or two that had "chips" on the menu, usually as "fish and chips" or some other battered and fried stick of meat "and chips" where, to my supreme bewilderment, the side was a pile of Lays, but, like, those restaurants were universally run by geriatrics in the middle of nowhere, served food on paper plates, and where wrong.
Restaurants exclusively serve fries as far as I could tell. Even with sandwiches.
Even with sandwiches
Wat

It's communicated by context cues the same way one word has different meanings and context points to towards the meaning the person is communicating with a word

Though it does get annoying when the context cues are missing for example someone asking you if you want chips and not specifying what type

I'm guessing Australian language for "chips" calls them both that because they are a product made from potato that is usually salted and the two in the image are just different styles of the same potato product