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
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!
Isn’t it short for french-cut fried potatoes and had nothing to do with France at all?
Well, France developed the cut. No?
Eh, they just liked it a lot. But they definitely popularized it and detailed usages of it in books. They didn’t invent “cut it long and thin” though, since that’s just basic knife work whose origin is lost to time.
Potatoes are a food native to the Americas and the Belgians claiming them is cultural appropriation. French fries are Chilean.
This is a joke, right?
Spaghetti is an Asian-Native American fusion dish.
Kinda but also, it’s true. Potatoes come from the Incan Empire
Which has practically nothing to do with Chile lol more like Peru / Bolivia
All three, tbh
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.
Who wants to claim our Brussels Sprouts? Go ahead, take them. Nobody? Well well well.
Brussels sprouts look and taste like little green brains. I have no idea what brain actually tastes like, but I imagine it’s brussels sprouts.
Brussel sprouts are delicious. Modern versions have had their bitterness bred out. Roasted until crispy with olive oil and garlic and salt and they’re fantastic.
Problem is the fools that boil or steam them. That way lies little green brains.
They taste like the worst version of a cabagge and they smell god awful while being prepared. I do believe some michelin star chef could make me a version I can eat but it would be a much more involved version not just roasted till crispy.
I promise you that roasted in olive oil with light salt and pepper until crispy is the best. But taste is relative.
I will try this
While roasting them add some diced dates, bacon, onions and maybe peppers and you have the best dish ever made
Then carefully remove the sprouts and eat the rest.
Btw, you can cook and taste brain. It’s not the most common thing to find, but you can sometimes find it at a butcher shop, along with the insides of other animals
Fun fact: what’s known in the US as “Danish pastries” are known in Denmark as wienerbrød (Vienna bread) and it turns out that both terms have some merit:
It was invented in Copenhagen by immigrants from Vienna
WIENER BREAD
🌭❔
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?
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.
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.
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.
What about Flanders fries then?
Stupid tasty Flanders
They fry in Flanders fields.
When Hans gets the flammenwerfer
Hans Moleman?
Alternatively, alliteration am always awesome
Hot dogs are bastardized from three separate Germanic names. Frankfurt sausages sounded a bit formal, so you got “hot dachshunds,” except Americans could neither spell nor pronounce the name of that breed, so you get “hot dogs.” If you asked what a hot dog was you’d probably be told it’s a wiener on a bun, where the English word “wiener” is a loanword from the German conjugation of “from Vienna.” And we’ve come full circle by routinely referring to dachshunds as wiener dogs.
The less-fun tangent about the prominence of German food in American culture is that New York was famed for its wealthy German-American families until all their wives and children were on a boat that sank. I am not joking.
Quick note, just to be a pedantic arsehole: conjugation is specific to verbs. The general term is declension, which includes conjugation, but more broadly refers to the changing of a word depending on its semantical context
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
The kind of correct you can’t be mad at.
This is incorrect btw. Conjugation is not a special form of declension. Declension does not apply to verbs. The general term for both is morphology.
Survivors reported that the life preservers were useless and fell apart in their hands, while desperate mothers placed life jackets on their children and tossed them into the water, only to watch in horror as their children sank instead of floating. Most of those on board were women and children who, like most Americans of the time, could not swim; victims found that their heavy wool clothing absorbed water and weighed them down in the river.[9]: 108–113
t was discovered that Nonpareil Cork Works, supplier of cork materials to manufacturers of life preservers, placed 8 oz (230 g) iron bars inside the cork materials to meet minimum content requirements (6 lb (2.7 kg) of “good cork”) at the time. Nonpareil’s deception was revealed by David Kahnweiler’s Sons, who inspected a shipment of 300 cork blocks.[5]: 71–72 Many of the life preservers had been filled with cheap and less effective granulated cork and brought up to proper weight by the inclusion of the iron weights. Canvas covers, rotted with age, split and scattered the powdered cork. Managers of the company (Nonpareil Cork Works) were indicted but not convicted. The life preservers on the Slocum had been manufactured in 1891 and had hung above the deck, unprotected from the elements, for 13 years.[9]: 118–119
What a disaster, fuck
“capitalism makes the best product for the lowest cost because of the invisible hand of the child drowning monster”
Well, we have Wiener Würstchen made from pork and beef, and we have Frankfurter Würstchen which are made from pork and are smoked :)
On the plus side they didn’t have to live to see their home country get fucked twice in a row.
I know what you’re saying, but their home country was America.
That’s what they’re saying I think? First they saw Germany, then they would’ve seen America? Though idk if those people were immigrants or the second generation of immigrants
I always found it funny that it is called “dachshund” in English. In German it is called “Dackel” and “dachshund” would be translated as “badger dog”. I don’t think that a badger is really meant here, but that the language has just developed a bit strangely (like with the word ampersand).
We call them that because they were meant to drive badgers from dens. It’s why they are so inclined to be aggressive little shits when not properly trained
Thanks for the explanation, I didn’t know that and wikipedia does not explain that in their etymology section.
Always happy to help, it’s not often that my families multiple generations of dog breeding and training actually provides relevant information to internet conversations
They don’t look like badgers - they hunt badgers. They were bred specifically to hunt in burrows.
No, Freedom made this.
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?
I’ll simplify things for you. I invented 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?
Probably not the deep fried version, since AFAIK there isn’t any evidence of pre-Columbian cooking vessels that would be suitable for frying.
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]
TIL
I always thought they were called French fries because they’re French style, as in cut into long thing pieces. Til!
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
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.
We call them pommes frites in Denmark
It’s papa fritas in Spanish
Tot poles in the US
Oh hey, OpenDyslexic font.
Actually…my nation made it. Every popular food item you can think of actually.
Then I spread them around your planet and had my agents whisper in people’s ears to say things about them all.
Finally, an explanation for the universality of Swedish meatballs.
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!
