Stamets [Mirror]International game of 'Food Telephone'
yataIt has been established that the earliest recorded recipes of fries are French.
Belgians: And I took that personally…
Antik 👾I did though
Which is debated as there are signs that point towards Spain having done it first.
somasI’ll simplify things for you. I French fries. Anyone who says otherwise is a dirty liar
Without knowing anything at all about the subject, except for where potatoes come from: Can we even be sure that native Americans didn’t do them first?
MxM111They did not have vegetable oil. They could not deep fry potatoes.
dadarobotThey could easily have used lard…
Apart from the fact that lard fries would be different from French fries (probably better, to be honest), my understanding is they fried food on stones, they did not have metal skillets with high edges (or metal skillets at all). So, fried potatoes, yes. Deep fried, no.
Your point about the frying not being “deep” is valid, but your insistence that it has to be vegetable oil is just incorrect.
Since the 1960s, most french fries in the US have been produced from frozen Russet potatoes which have been blanched or at least air-dried industrially.[12][11][13][14] The usual fat for making french fries is vegetable oil. In the past, beef suet was recommended as superior,[7] with vegetable shortening as an alternative. McDonald’s used a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil until 1990, when they changed to vegetable oil with beef flavouring.[15][16] Horse fat was standard in northern France and Belgium until recently,[17] and is recommended by some chefs.[18]
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CatoblepasProbably not the deep fried version, since AFAIK there isn’t any evidence of pre-Columbian cooking vessels that would be suitable for frying.
Dharma CuriousI always thought they were called French fries because they’re French style, as in cut into long thing pieces. Til!
Grammaton ClericSounds like everyone invented it
In Finland they’re just called French. Plural.
That might be worse than Germany insisting shrimp scampi comes “with shrimps.”
It doesn’t matter, Belgians are making much better fries than French. They deserve the recognition.
I love those meatballs they do in Belgian and Dutch frite shops that come in segments like a Terry’s chocolate orange.
But… alliteration is always awesome.
We could have called them Flemish fries.
Even as a homophone, I don’t want the word phlegm associated with my salty snacks.
Don’t call me homophonobic though, I support phonemes of all stars, stripes, and identities.
CarbonIceDragonWhat about Flanders fries then?
They fry in Flanders fields.
vaultdweller013When Hans gets the flammenwerfer
Hans Moleman?
Stupid tasty Flanders
Alternatively, alliteration am always awesome
Patapon EnjoyerFrench is actually the language of the fries.
Curious, so why is it I never heard them talk in French?
You don’t listen.
Bonjour
Que tal?
Well, have you given them any reason to want to talk to you? Or are you just murdering them all slowly with your mastication?
See, if you just sat there and killed a large stack of my friends and countrymen, I wouldn’t want to talk to you either.
I’m not telling you anything you murderer!
I’m not telling you anything you murderer!
You wrote a whole comment. Checkmate liberal
You sure got me!
No, Freedom made this.
America had just bad eyesight, or the belgian flag was already faded. So Black became more blueish and yellow became white.
Oh not this black-yellow or blue-white game again!
Oh, I know this one! I hear Yanny
EisFreiThen the French play the Uno reverse card and invent “Le sandwich américain”
TheRtRevKaiserTo be fair, I just looked at up and it does seem like something we would come up with…
The Giant KoreanYss it does. It looks delicious.
I mean, it’s basically a cheeseburger with an accent, hard to go wrong there.
That just looks like the French took a cheeseburger and fries meal, stuffed the fries inside the burger, then replaced the bread with their own to make it slightly more french.
SkunkYeah it is, but now you can find plenty of different recipes with local flavors
The frites seem to be non-negotiable.
Frites frites frites frites because we are tired of always saying baguette baguette baguette.
It puts the frites on the sammy, or else it gets the French body-slammy
SnipingNinjaAnd salade and tomates too
Missing the
with salad, tomatoes, frites, and spam, and the
with salad, tomatoes, frites, , and spam,
with salad, tomatoes, frites, , and spam,
Missing the Honolulu with salad, tomatoes, frites, and spam, and the Tokyo with salad, tomatoes, frites, tofu, and spam, and the Guam with salad, tomatoes, frites, spam, eggs, and spam, and the Belfast with salad, tomatoes, frites, kippers, spam, and spam, and the Helsinki with salad, tomatoes, frites, spam, licorice, spam, hakarl, and spam, and the Mumbai with salad, tomatoes, frites, sultana korma with green cardamom sauce on slow-roasted cashews, and spam.
So much spam
Can’t have a food thread without you. Our matrix channel is a cooking channel now lmao
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Is it that time again?
LOL yes, it def a coffee vase day. I think I may need two 😐
PoikThe term “frenching” is also a culinary term that means preparing food for even cooking and to make it visually appealing.
Altima NEOMan, we did that in middle school too
BunnyluxEven though we werent visually appealing…