and @Medievalist
I suppose I should have worked that out, but I was laboring under the misconception that he was describing an actual hat that people actually wear, not the equivalent of saying “running through a wolf’s den wearing pants made out of salami.” I mean, I knew they call fries “chips”, but not qualifying that it was an idea that the interlocutor made up in the moment made me think a “chip hat” was… i dunno, like slang for a crown of thorns or something.
also, I’m from inland, so gulls have never attacked my fries.
it seems like a terrible analogy to me, but I’m from Tennessee. We say shit like “I haven’t had that much fun since the hogs ate my brother,” when in fact, hogs never ate my brother. I never even had a brother.
