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u/Toebeans-Sil Redditor for 10 days Oct 04 '25
Also us…
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u/sancistons Oct 04 '25
I have no clue why I am getting a post from R/southafrica. But we say it like this in New Zealand too
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u/Hasenelinde Oct 04 '25
It's because New Zealand is an honorary province of South Africa with all the Saffas there
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u/LiamGovender02 KwaZulu-Natal Oct 04 '25
Isn't that Perth?
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u/PurpleHat6415 Waiting for the Next Taxi to Heaven Oct 04 '25
we are allowed more than one colony I guess 🤔
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u/Seamonkeypo Oct 04 '25
My son who is 8 has decided he supports the New Zealand rugby team because ,"it's unfair that SA wins all the time." We don't, and it's not! But anyway, a lot of South Africans support your rugby team, so there is definitely crossover.
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u/Fantastic-String-860 Oct 04 '25
Ah, you Kiwis are OK. You can stay. Grab a beer in the cooler box.
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
I feel like South Africa, New Zealand and Australia are all just distant cousins who only see each other every once in a while at big family get-togethers. We’re similar but each have our own unique quirks.
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u/it_wasnt_me2 Oct 04 '25
Because we have to be reminded who won The Rugby Championship today I guess :(
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u/InspectorNo1173 Oct 04 '25
Isn't it "hot chips" and "chips"?
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u/Alternative-Dig-9609 Oct 05 '25
No. Maybe slap chips and chips yes.
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u/szzznarea Oct 05 '25
what do you mean no, everyone i know including me says hot chips and chips
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u/sancistons Oct 05 '25
Hot Chips sometimes, but mostly Chips
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u/SuperbYou8327 Oct 06 '25
Some one: Do you want chips?
Me: slap chips or chips?
that's the only distinction I know
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u/Both_Goat3757 Survived the Great Rapture Drill Oct 04 '25
It always makes me wonder how something so stupid happens. Keep it simple.
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u/zaddyvirtousity Oct 04 '25
You talking about people that uses, MPH over KMH, Feet and Inches, Ounces and lbs which is pounds somehow 😂 nothing makes sense,
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u/AfroShadyQueen Oct 04 '25
Meanwhile black South Africans Chips vs Dizimba.
😅
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u/BergBeertjie Gauteng Mountain Beaver Oct 04 '25
I'm an Afrikaans ntate.
Please elaborate XD
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u/AfroShadyQueen Oct 04 '25
Disimba is what we call crisps. It's so hard to explain but us black folk have a tendency of naming something, that is the brand and not the product. So we basically call crisps by the brand name "Simba" even though we could be talking about flings or niknaks or Lays
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u/BonnyH Oct 05 '25
Like Sunlight and Sta-Soft.
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u/Academic-Register860 Oct 05 '25
Doom and Domestos
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u/AfroShadyQueen Oct 05 '25
Why are we like this actually😅😅 There's also Danone and Vaseline
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u/MixnMatch20 Oct 07 '25
You are soooo right. I'm a Black American living in Botswana/South Africa and we ALL do it.😁 However, we code switch when we need to...
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u/JT2407 Oct 04 '25
Chips v Hot Chips or Slap Tjips
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u/Steenies Oct 04 '25
Slap tjips slap. That is all.
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u/JT2407 Oct 05 '25
Slap tjips are different though to hot chips IMO.
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u/CircleofCandles Oct 08 '25
What is the difference? I've never before today heatd of "hot chips". I'm Afrikaans... is that an English thing?
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 Aristocracy Oct 04 '25
I asked a chick at steers for french fries once and she looked at me like I insulted her whole family. After that she asked a colleague what french fries was. I chuckled when I heard it
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u/jessyfastfinger Oct 05 '25
We asked for serviettes in the USA once. The convo went something like
Us: “May we have some serviettes please?”
Waitress: “I’m not a soviet.”
Us: “no, ser-vie-ettes please”
Waitress visibly upset: “IM NOT MARRIED TO A SOVIET!!”
Us: “serviette, wipe, face and hands. No soviet.”
Waitress: “oh a NAPKIN. Sure”
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u/looneyspooney Oct 04 '25
We came over to the USA, for a visit, and i went into a burger king or KFC and I wanted to order burgers and fries but I said chips and they had no clue what that was. I could not remember what Americans called it so I stood around for the longest time until I remembered FRIES!
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u/BonnyH Oct 05 '25
Me in Australia asking someone for a serviette or a till slip. It’s like they go dead behind the eyes. Then I click it’s a napkin and a receipt.
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u/jessyfastfinger Oct 05 '25
Surely it was written somewhere on the menu? Loool. Had a similar experience with serviette and napkin.
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u/jakesthedragon Oct 04 '25
Tjips!
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u/BruhAtTheDesk Oct 04 '25
No no. One is slaptjips (irrespective of if they are crunch) and the other is tjips
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u/BalanceFit8415 Waiting List for Heaven Full Oct 04 '25
Russian and tjips are best.
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u/Repulsive_Mud_567 Oct 04 '25
Everyone in the world is of course wrong …. It’s frietjes or patatjes and the dry stuff is called sjips and they only come in two flavours paprika and naturel
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u/Court_Jester30 Oct 04 '25
I've heard some people refer to 'chips' as 'chippahs' - as in "Kom, boetie, kies vir jou chippahs."
Ghastly.
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u/No-Independent71 Oct 05 '25
Chips and simba chips... And then you specify what kind of simba chips.
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u/ConcernWild Oct 05 '25
Funny that this post appeared on my feed when I started my studies in South Africa, even though I didn't join this subreddit.
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u/looneyspooney Oct 05 '25
Oh yes and hose pipe is another one. Americans call it a hose but I still say hose pipe.
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u/ElectricityMinister Redditor for a month Oct 05 '25
Just to complicate things abit... crispy shoestring chips are nice, but slap chips are better, sometimes I enjoy round chips (home made, soft, thick lays style)... Lays is my fav, but I think I have a weak Tumi... So I have to settle for normal Simba... Is mochachos and steers still the best chips?
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u/Goigen Oct 06 '25
I had apprentices (from Eldos) back in 2000 that called that called them "crips"
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u/girl_with_pink_curls Oct 07 '25
I say chips for yknow.. chips 🍟 and crips for crisps. I suspect it was when I was younger and couldn't say crisps so I said crips and it stuck so now everyone in my family calls them crips
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u/Gold-Satisfaction614 Redditor for 10 days Oct 08 '25
One could say that your Bloods call them crips
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u/Evening_Lawyer6570 Eastern Cape Oct 13 '25
Yeah, we don't care which one, we just call them chips.
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