British people often call fries chips although they also sometimes call them French Fries or skinny fries.
If you ask for a bag of chips in the US, you will be given crispy deep-fried thin sliced potato. In the UK, 'chips' are a thicker version of what people in the US call 'fries'.
If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
Cookies in England are called biscuits.
In England they refer to cookies as biscuits which are a baked snack that is small, flat and sweet.
In England they sugar cookies are called sugar biscuits as well as jumbles.
Sugar cookies are also called gemmells, crybabies, gimbletts, cimbellines, jumbles, and plunketts.
In England cookies are also called digestives.
The term digestive is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties around the time the biscuit was first introduced due to the use of sodium bicarbonate as an ingredient.
Historically, some producers used diastatic malt extract to "digest" some of the starch that existed in flour prior to baking.