Please settle this for me.
If someone puts a load of sauce on a plate of chips and I mean an excessive amount, if you wanted to be sarcastic, would you say “Do you want some sauce with your chips?” or would you say “Do you want some chips with your sauce?”.
Pedantic I know but neither of us will back down.
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Chips with sauce. It doesn’t work the other way
Do you want some chips with your sauce
You want some chips with that?
I’d lean toward chips with sauce, but both work.
One derives humour from the farcical idea that you have put so much sauce on your plate that it is now the main component of the meal.
The other derives humour from the joker mockingly pretending that the amount of sauce you have put on your plate is meagre, when in reality it’s a tremendous amount of source.
Both are of course extremely funny jokes and likely to get a lot of laughs.
“Do you want some chips with your sauce?”
The other way around, it doesn’t make any sense. Unless you’re adding an absolute tonne of chips to a small amount of sauce.
Have you got enough sauce?
Option: 2
I used to joke like that about myself, when I went to a chippy and when asked if I wanted S&V on them I would ask them to make the chips gurggle, that I wanted chips with my vinegar
Chips with sauce
Chips with your sauce. Categorically rhe only correct answer.
I’m confused by people saying the first one doesn’t work. It is sarcastically asking if you want sauce because it is bloody obvious that they already have sauce because there’s an arseload all over your chips.
You’re British, for God’s sake. Please don’t forget how sarcasm works.
Do you want some chips with your sauce
Do you want some chips with your sauce, no two ways about it.
Do you want some chips with your sauce… you’re pretending you’ve not noticed the chips because of all the bloody sauce, it’s obvious.
The other way around does work sarcastically but it’s so much less of a joke
People saying both work… Fucking idiots. It’s supposed to be sarcastic.
Yes, the first one does work, but it’s more literal and hence pointless.
The second, however, is implying the main dish is the sauce (when the chips are), and hence is sarcastic and funny.
Fucking hell, things will be ‘better then’ other things soon.
Would you like a chip with that sauce?
I say that about Vinegar. My mother puts it on roast dinner.
You want some chips with your salt.
The other way…. yeh no
Chips with sauce
Long story short, one of you is a winner
Do you want chips with your sauce. Only way it makes sense
if it’s sarcastic it has to be “do you want some chips with your sauce because you are trying to point out you have a plate of sauce rather than a plate of chips.
The latter is the “stronger” sarcasm.
In the semantic universe of the former, you’re simply noting the excessive amount of sauce applied without asking. It’s basically: “Look–lots of sauce–oh would you like some?”
In the SU of the latter, the sauce ***IS*** the main dish, and chips are the *accoutrement*. You’ve reversed their significance. This is: “I’ve served your main dish; the sauce–would you like a bit of fries to accompany that? I could put a little on the side.”
I always go for “do you want chips with that?
“Do you want some chips with that sauce”
How is this a question?!
Chips with sauce 100%
Chips with your sauce
The point is to sarcastically ask if they would want some chips, to go with what appears to be the main dish of sauce.
Both work with the right tone.
You would say “do you want some chips with your sauce” because you’re saying they’ve got loads of sauce in comparison to how many chips they’ve got 🤷🏽♂️ whoever’s arguing with you is a knob. You could say “do you want some sauce with your chips” too though. Either would work.
Chips with sauce – the other way around is not sarcasm
I’ve only ever heard ‘want some chips with your sauce’ but now that I’ve heard it the other way it’s way funnier tbh