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In Poland we have Greek style fish, Ukrainian borscht and Russian pierogi. None of which have anything to do with the place they are named after.
I forgot about French pastry. Which I just puff pastry, but we call it French pastry for some reason. Doesn’t it come from Ireland?
I thought pierogi was polish 🤔
As all dishes, it’s not from a specific country, but from a region of the world. Eastern Europ in this case. When we fill them with potatoes, we call it russian style. Apparently Russians like carbs.
A little correction, the name “ruskie pierogi” comes not from Russia but from Red Ruthenia/Red Rus, or Ruś Czerwona in Polish, a region in western Ukraine.
What kind of savage puts their freedom fries in a bowl?
See, as someone who doesn’t live in Europe, I honestly have a hard time telling which horizontal/vertical striped lines of red/white/orange/blue/black/brown/whatever, represent which countries. All I know is: that’s not the flag of France. I have no idea which country it’s for.
I also have trouble with all but a few of the country codes (the two letter notation for a country), and states by their letter codes, with few exceptions… for countries, I know like… CA is Canada, US is the USA, UK is England/United Kingdom (and I know those are two different things, but I don’t know why or how they’re different). For States I know like… NY for new York and CA for California… and like DC for Washington DC (which is different from the state of Washington).
Apart from that and maybe a few others, idfk. And yes, I did not do very well in geography class…
In any case, this joke almost went over my head and I’m still not sure whose flag that is.
It’s the Belgian flag
It has been established that the earliest recorded recipes of fries are French.
Which is debated as there are signs that point towards Spain having done it first. Then there’s the fact that Belgium says they developed it first, not the French, and that remains hotly debated.
It’s almost like people aren’t entirely sure where French fries came from yet north America insists on calling them French anyway. Wonder if a meme can be made from that?
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?
They did not have vegetable oil. They could not deep fry potatoes.
They could easily have used lard or tallow…
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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Probably not the deep fried version, since AFAIK there isn’t any evidence of pre-Columbian cooking vessels that would be suitable for frying.
In Finland they’re just called French. Plural.
That might be worse than Germany insisting shrimp scampi comes “with shrimps.”
Sounds like everyone invented it
I always thought they were called French fries because they’re French style, as in cut into long thing pieces. Til!
Belgians: And I took that personally…
I did though
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.
French 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!
But… alliteration is always awesome.
Alternatively, alliteration am 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.
What about Flanders fries then?
They fry in Flanders fields.
When Hans gets the flammenwerfer
Hans Moleman?
Stupid tasty Flanders
Were they invented when Belgium was a part of France?
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
Then the French play the Uno reverse card and invent “Le sandwich américain”
To be fair, I just looked that up and it does seem like something we would come up with…
Yss it does. It looks delicious.
https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2022/05/le-sandwich-americain/
I mean, it’s basically a cheeseburger with an accent, hard to go wrong there. It looks delicious.
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.
Yeah that’s correct, but now you can find plenty of different recipes with local flavors
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
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The frites seem to be non-negotiable.
It puts the frites on the sammy, or else it gets the French body-slammy
And salade and tomates too
Frites frites frites frites because we are tired of always saying baguette baguette baguette.
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 😐
I really don’t understand why Belgium is so upset about this. They’re literally fried potatoes. Choose something else.
Especially since they didn’t invent the fried potato. The French did. They invented cutting the potato in sticks instead of disks to fry them…
Especially since they didn’t invent the fried potato. The French did.
Can we really say that with any certainty? Frying is a pretty basic cooking technique, and potatoes became a very common ingredient. Maybe it really caught on in France, but I’m sure just about anybody who was eating potatoes must have tried them fried on occasion.
This is “who invented the sandwich” all over again when what we really mean is “who named the sandwich”. We credit the Earl of Sandwich for the invention, but sandwiches have existed for as long as bread has. I mean there are only so many things you can do with bread and slicing it and putting other food in between is beyond obvious.
Now I’m hungry.
But considering sliced bread is treated as an amazing invention (at least the phrase “best thing since sliced bread” would have you believe that) then maybe whoever invented sliced bread was also responsible for inventing sandwiches.
As for what people did before sliced bread? I’ve seen people tear pieces from a bread loaf and use it to soak liquids, so I assume that was the method used for all uses of bread.
froid potato
THEY’RE NOT JUST FRIED POTATOES THEY ARE A CULINARY MASTERPIECE! THEY’RE CRISPY ON THE OUTSIDE, FLUFFY ON THE INSIDE, AND SERVED WITH A DIZZYING ARRAY OF SAUCES AND TOPPINGS THAT ELEVATE THEM TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF DELICIOUSNESS!!
I don’t know why you think the entire country of Belgium has anything to do with this and it’s not just a joke to laugh about language in the US.
I had a Belgian roommate one time, and he was very upset about it.
I’ll never get over Polandball calling them “made-up waffle country.”
I got hungy :(
The term “frenching” is also a culinary term that means preparing food for even cooking and to make it visually appealing.
Man, we did that in middle school too
Even though we werent visually appealing…
Says you, I slayed.
I was curious about French Toast the other day. Turns out it was invented by someone with the last name French and the intention was to call it French’s Toast. But when he printed the name, he forgot the apostrophe and ‘S’!
Similar story with German chocolate cake. It was German’s chocolate cake. A guy named German.
And Black Forest cake was actually created by Forest Whitaker.
That’s a legend; the name was used in England before the mythical Mr. French existed in the US!
(also French Toast was invented at least before the 6th Century)
In france we call it “pain perdu”, lost bread
I really like that.
