Ok, keberoxu, here you go.
One of the things that I miss, in recent years, is proper chips. I see that these are called fries by those in the USA.

In the long ago, chip-shops cooked chips from specific potatoes and in larger batches. Then they kept and sold them from mesh-bottomed containers built over the seething hot cooking-fat. This meant that the chips were dripping surplus fat and drying a little to a slightly crisp coating.
Now they are spot-cooked to the order, and greasier, and often as a sideline to the shop's main line, a different ethnic food.
I miss those 'proper' chips.

I do like the ethnic stuff sometimes, but chips are special!