Is "Half and half" just a British thing?

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In the UK if you go for a Chinese you can ask for a "half and half". It means instead of choosing between rice or chips with your curry you get both. Some chip shops do a simpler version with curry sauce or even a chilli con carne half and half.

Do you have "half and half" where you are and what type?

Jersey2 · Accepted Answer

Chinese restaurants in the US don’t have Freedom Fries. They will ask you if you want white rice or Fried Rice. Fried Rice usually has egg in it along with some small chopped vegetables like carrots or whole peas.

For giggles, I just grabbed a random menu from Long Island NY so you can see what they have and the prices. It seems normal although I don’t seem egg fried rice but perhaps its so common they don’t list it as it usually comes with the meal or white rice does depending in what you chose.

https://www.tonysgoldenhouse.com/menus

mstbooblover · Accepted Answer

No idea for "half and half" to be just a British thing, but I've never seen that in any snack or restaurant. Now, sometimes, depending on what I'm cooking, whether with remains of a previous meal or not, I have rice with noodles for instance, or potatoes and rice or spaghetti, etc.

Mind that if one considers potatoes as a vegetable, nothing prevents from mixing them with other vegetables to be served with noodles or rice, which is something I do sometimes with sweet potatoes, considering them then as a spice.

Miah05 · Accepted Answer

Half and half here is a type of creamer. But what your half and half version is, we have those options, just each restaurant calls it something different

PBandJ_Nerd · Accepted Answer

We have half and half that is half fried rice and half chow mein noodles. But we don't have french fries at chinese places.

AviatorTom · Answer

Some restaurants in the US support half-and-half. At gustos!, for example, a standard dish is either all rice or all greens, with your choice of meat. You can get a salad half and half, which means half rice and half greens, with your choice of meat.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Yeah I think some fish and chips and many middle eastern pita stores have a half and half meal that is part salad or potatoes and part shawarma. They taste beyond majestic but make me fat cause I’m sensitive to calories.

Lliam · Answer

No Chinese restaurant in the U. S. serves French fries (chips). I don't think they have any curry dishes, either. Thai restaurants have curry, but Chinese don't.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Oh, I thought you meant like, mixed race people.

We do. For instance you can order a pizza where each half has different toppings. "Little Caesars" even had their own Half and Half for a while, but as far as sides go, I don't believe so. And I've never thought to ask anywhere. Sampler plates are quite common though, but they usually aren't customizable.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

In germany pizza ristorante are doing this, half fungi half tonno. Never saw this at chinese or indian restaurant.

normalice · Answer

Panera does a "pick two" which is basically this, but apart from that, I haven't heard of it.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

In my area, half and half either means  1. the milk/cream blend that is used in coffee, or 2. half sweet iced tea and half unsweet iced tea, for those who don't want their iced tea to be overly sweet.

LiamSawyer · Answer

Here half & half refers to 10% milk fat coffee cream. But we can also get an order of half fries & half onion rings sometimes it's referred to as frings. We can order a three topping pizza with three different toppings on each half.

ibodi · Answer

No, just saw varied irish chips that is new for me.

Lynx122 · Answer

No Asian restaurant here has french fries at all.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

I don't know any curry places near by that serve fries/chips.

molonski2 · Answer

Ohhhh -- just too too many carbs , not good. My understanding is its a British thing , plus I remember some old British TV where the old guy always said " I'll have half " ..

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Why the fuck would anyone eat their curry with fries? That sounds so nasty. I think that's just a British thing.  When I think "half and half" I think of cream you put in coffee.

Pete671 · Answer

Not in south east England, but in eg, the Black Country, half rice/half chips is very common,,,

Iron_Man · Answer

That’s more like a British thing but I like the idea

madhatters4 · Answer

i've never heard of this... i'm from pennsylvania

Anonymous · Answer

And the Republic of Ireland as well as the British occupied 6 counties.

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

Snapple used to do half (tea) and half (lemonade). It’s a tea/juice company in USA.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Yes, Chinese food places around her will do half-and-half rice and chow mein.

Sparkie460 · Answer

We have half and half creamer. I'm not a fan of it.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I'm British and I never heard of "half and half".

Anonymous · Answer

Apparently. I've heard of half rice/half noodles. But French fries and rice? That s*** don't even go together.

goaded · Answer

I've never heard of it in that context.

NotInterestedSorry · Answer

We have that in Australia

SpaceGalaxy · Answer

Not in the US

exitseven · Answer

No, half and half is a lemon/. lime mixer.

Pterodon · Answer

I thought half and half was 50% milk and 50% cream

Guido · Answer

That's a dish for the half man/half woman.

Christoff92 · Answer

Sure

EaterPeter · Answer

That's a no

Cherkez · Answer

I like it that way

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