In America, crisp is used to describe natural food that is very fresh or a nice, cold morning. But crispy is used to describe food that is cooked so long it's become crunchy.

That y changes everything.

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11111one11111@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y (1 reply)

As an American, the fuck you going on about? A crisp stick of celery makes a crispy crunch when you bite it. All you did is make weird classification for the adverb of the same word as an adjective.

Hello_there@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Both are crunchy. Yup.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 1y (6 replies)

What this gotta do with america 😭

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y (5 replies)

As opposed to the UK, where a crisp is a chip and a chip is a fry.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I like mixing some milk into my crisps to make sogs.

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y

Haus@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 1y

And South Central, where a Crisp is a dyslexic gangbanger.

remotelove@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

But in the UK, is a crisp "crispy" or is "crisp" a derivative of another term or phrase?

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

It's called a crisp because it's crispy (at least to my knowledge).

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y

It's almost like multiple types of food can have a brittle texture...

hazypenguin@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y

All of these examples are crunchy

TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

if you cook something long enough for it to get crispy, that's still used as a favourable descriptor

RedStrider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

wait till you learn about a crisper drawer

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y

And CRISPR

CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It's like once you've had Extra Krispy

You'll never go back again

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y