This commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIyCilEYo



1. What does he say after "What is he doing?"

2. What does he say at 0:09? "Maybe we should get some chips?"

3. What's "not it" or "nod it?" The ones they keep saying.

How I hear it.

1. "Said somethin' about not going through Texas without getting a shot of a bull."

2. "First one to get an empty chip?" (Has to go help the guy with the bull.)


3."Not it."

What does not it mean here? No, this is not the case? Or no, we are not done?

When no one present wants to be the one to carry out a task at hand, people come up with little games to try and decide randomly who should be the one who has to do it. That person is 'it'. They're both 'not it' because the condition of their game is that they need to draw an empty chip.

But what is a chip and how can it be empty?

The 'chip' refers to the tortilla chips in their nachos. They aren't drawing any empty chips (i.e. chips not covered in any of the assorted toppings), hence its name "Fully Loaded Nachos".

A 'chip' in American English is a 'crisp' in British English.

You can 'dunk' a British chip, and you can 'load' an American chip.

There is an expression 'fully loaded' which refers to cars. It means a car with all the extras.

I recently bought a mug with this saying on it, which struck me as being amusing:

"I used to be a skinny dipper but now I am a chunky dunker"

The other point that is possibly worth making is that in British English: Chips and Crisps are made from potatoes.

Nachos or tortilla chips are made from 'corn flour' (maize flour).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacho


How can you have 'longhorn cheddar cheese'?

The Cheddar Gorge is in Somerset, and this is where Cheddar Cheese comes from. Miles away from 'longhorn cattle'.


The real answer is that the 'advert' (commerial) contains a lot of Americanisms.