Orign of French fries

[Guest]

French fries, alternatively know as ''chips'', are recent addition to our eating habits. As potatoes are native to New World, I'd imagin the origin of French fries to be post-Colombus.

Had the Native Americans cooked up the recipe for French fries prior to the arrival of the Old Worlders?

Are the ecipie for fries originated in France as their name suggest?

I'd very much like to know.

Thank you.

Who invented fish and chips? Huddock for The Scots and cod for the English?

 

[islandman]

Did I mention that I hate eggplant?

 

[Guest]

Did I mention that I hate eggplant?

I have always wondered who had named the plant an ''eggplant'' Americans.<shake my head> Which egg does the plant resemble? Of course, over here we call it ''aubergine''.

Aubergine is a rather tasteless plant which sucks up any liquid/oil during cooking process.

I have once prepered ''poor man's caviare''. Not good at all. I should have fed to the robots.

 

[Mountain Man]

French Fries

Potatoes that have been cut into thick to thin strips, soaked in cold water, blotted dry, then DEEP-FRIED until crisp and golden brown. They are called pommes frites in France and chips in Britain. The name does not come from the fact that their origin is French, but because the potatoes are "frenched"-cut into lengthwise strips. Other versions of french-fried potatoes are shoestring potatoes (matchstick-wide) and steak fries (very thick strips).

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Credited to the Belgians, but picked up by the Danes and the French.

Here's a good link leading to recipies for Belgian "Double Fried" that sounds like a good secret!

http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.2/fries/fries-sidebar-09.2.html

Rhumb

 

[lovetoread]

French fries are my life.

I live for Wendy's fries and Chick-Fil-A's waffle fries.

 

[peachykeen]

Potatoes are no good for most humanoids, especially those prone to arthritis. Try eliminating them from your diet and you will be surprised how hard it is. But since I stopped eating them my knees don't creak going up stairs anymore.

 

[Mountain Man]

Eggplant

eggplant - A member of the nightshade family, the eggplant is related to the potato, tomato, and pepper and has its origins in India and Southeast Asia. Arab and Asian traders brought eggplant to the Middle East, North Africa, and finally Europe. The first eggplants were small, round, egg-shaped and white (that's how this vegetable got its name). The prime eggplant season is July through October, but the purple variety is available all year long.

 

[Guest]

Which -ist are you?

The traditionalist Brits eats chips with salt and vineger.
The fastfoodists eats French fries with ketchup.
Most of Americans, I suspect, are ketchupists, too.
The Dutch eats them with mayo. I did try in Amsterdam. Not bad.
The fancy-cuntists might sallow fry them and add honey and soysauce or something.

I like them all.

P.S.
DO NOT put frozen chips into pipping hot oil to deep fry them whilest you are bare chested.

Gawd, I've learnt the lesson.

 

[peachykeen]

thanks mtn. and all nightshade vegetables are actually, technically, poisonous. Their lectins deposit themselves in the tissues surrounding joints, which is why if you know you may have the tendency to become arthritic in your family, you should avoid them. Seriously can't tell you the difference it's made in my life.

 

[Mountain Man]

Re: Which -ist are you?

The traditionalist Brits eats chips with salt and vineger.
The fastfoodists eats French fries with ketchup.
Most of Americans, I suspect, are ketchupists, too.
The Dutch eats them with mayo. I did try in Amsterdam. Not bad.
The fancy-cuntists might sallow fry them and add honey and soysauce or something.

I like them all.

P.S.
DO NOT put frozen chips into pipping hot oil to deep fry them whilest you are bare chested.

Gawd, I've learnt the lesson.

I guess i'm a traditionalist brit(fron the states).....vinegar and salt.......

Does hat make me a loyalist???? god i hope not

 

[phrodeau]

I hate to admit it, but I researched lectins online and it made my head spin. Digestive chemistry is a bitch and a half in spades.

I don't eat potatoes as a rule, but sometimes courtesy requires it and I end up irregular. Of course, courtesy doesn't apply when French Fries are involved. Haven't eaten one of those in decades.

 

[Guest]

Useless information

In olden times, drinking water was dangerous. People in the different parts of the world had developed different method of making liquid intake safer. Some boiled it- Teaists: others fermented it - alcoholicsist. The English prefered to suck cow's udder while for the Japanese the concept of drinking cow's milk was so foreign that many - to this day - cannot stomach it.

P.S.
50% of the Japanese cannot hold alcohole, but other half can drink like fish.

 

[penguindance]