French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Home made ones are tops, but for the most part I'll pass on them.

oven baked potato wedges , sour cream and sweet chilli sauce - saep lie der

they are not french fries.....they are bloody CHIPS........

they were not invented by the yanks or the french.....

they are not french fries.....they are bloody CHIPS........

they were not invented by the yanks or the french.....

No, chips are Frito Lays. You can have than thin or with ridges. There are corn chips too, like Doritos.

Holland and Belgium have a french fries culture and what you can get there in the street is a lot better than what MCD is serving.

they are not french fries.....they are bloody CHIPS........

they were not invented by the yanks or the french.....

What the blazes are you talking about, Burnsy. Chips are precisely as Bops defined them; corn or potato, ruffled or unruffled, eaten plain or with a dip.

I don't claim to know the origins of french fries and don't really care who invented them. The only thing that's important to know is that the Yanks stole them, perfected them, made them their own, and then made them famous to the rest of the world.

Heck, when anyone thinks of noodles what country do you think of first? Italy, natch. The thieving Italians stole them from the Chinese, just like the underhanded Yanks stole french fries.

But you don't hear the Chinese complaining, do you?

French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Love these troller threads!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Love these troller threads!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

Jeez, zzap asks an innocuous question and Boonie's already reaching for the gun on the rack behind his drivers' seat.

they are not french fries.....they are bloody CHIPS........

they were not invented by the yanks or the french.....

What the blazes are you talking about, Burnsy. Chips are precisely as Bops defined them; corn or potato, ruffled or unruffled, eaten plain or with a dip.

I don't claim to know the origins of french fries and don't really care who invented them. The only thing that's important to know is that the Yanks stole them, perfected them, made them their own, and then made them famous to the rest of the world.

You mean they invented frozen fries...

Heck, when anyone thinks of noodles what country do you think of first? Italy, natch. The thieving Italians stole them from the Chinese, just like the underhanded Yanks stole french fries.

But you don't hear the Chinese complaining, do you?

You mean they invented frozen fries.

French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Love these troller threads!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

As a consequence of France opposing the whole Iraq thing, French fries were renamed Freedom Fries at the White House, still served by a French chef though.

Truly a matter of national security.

French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Love these troller threads!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

Jeez, zzap asks an innocuous question and Boonie's already reaching for the gun on the rack behind his drivers' seat.

Almost choked on my wad of Red Man at the same time!

As a consequence of France opposing the whole Iraq thing, French fries were renamed Freedom Fries at the White House, still served by a French chef though.

Truly a matter of national security.

Penz - the whitehouse chef is from the Phillipines.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20050814-1.html

The Dutch, however, cannot take responsibility for inventing the fry. Neither can the French. That honor goes to the Belgians, where fries are cherished even more than they are in Holland. The fry culture in Belgium is similar to that of Holland—fries are everywhere, the thick slabs of potatoes are freshly fried and served in paper cones, and they are offered with a variety of toppings, the most popular being mayonnaise—but the Belgians have also developed a wide variety of specialized fries shops, called, in Belgium "frietkots" or "fritures". These range from small stands, to sheds, busses and caravans, to shacks or quaint chalets.

It is only in the United States that the nomenclature of fried potatoes insinuates a French connection. In England they are called "chips," in France "pommes frites" (which means, literally, "fried apples"), and in Belgium and Holland "patat" (not the word for potato, which is "aardappel"). The French fry has little to do with France other than the fact that it's popularity spread to that country as quickly as it did to others. In fact, the French, like most of Europe, eyed the potato with suspicion until the last century or two.

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

Patatas fritas (french fries, of course always home made never frozen) are spanish origin...we brough/stole potatoes when we conquered America...them spanish women invented this way of cooking them...always with olive oil of course!

Patatas fritas (french fries, of course always home made never frozen) are spanish origin...we brough/stole potatoes when we conquered America...them spanish women invented this way of cooking them...always with olive oil of course!

There you go. Y'all can vent your anger on the Spanish, it's all their fault !

Spanish Fries, the 2nd most popular invention to come out of Spain, the 1st being Spanish Fly of course !

French fries are pretty much the national dish in the States, often accompanied by a Hamburger and followed by a supersized portion of ice-cream or something even less healthy.

Do you like French Fries, and is preparing them (i.e. peeling potatoes) an uplifting experience for you?

Do you eat French Fries often?

I enjoy them about once a month, with a spoonful of ketchup, some crispy pork and a tomatoe salad.

Love these troller threads!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

Jeez, zzap asks an innocuous question and Boonie's already reaching for the gun on the rack behind his drivers' seat.

Can't agree here.From the tone of the thread, zzap sure sounds like he has a hardon for yanks, al;though the question sounds fair enough.

they are not french fries.....they are bloody CHIPS........

they were not invented by the yanks or the french.....

What the blazes are you talking about, Burnsy. Chips are precisely as Bops defined them; corn or potato, ruffled or unruffled, eaten plain or with a dip.

I don't claim to know the origins of french fries and don't really care who invented them. The only thing that's important to know is that the Yanks stole them, perfected them, made them their own, and then made them famous to the rest of the world.

Heck, when anyone thinks of noodles what country do you think of first? Italy, natch. The thieving Italians stole them from the Chinese, just like the underhanded Yanks stole french fries.

But you don't hear the Chinese complaining, do you?

They ARE chips.Burnsy is 100% correct..

When I think of noodles, I think of Asian food.I never think of Italy.

The best "Pommes Frites" are served in Belgium.

The "chips" on the Isles north of France are thumb-sized chunks of undercooked potatoes dripping with lard.

The OZ "chips" are somewhere in between, i.e., well-cooked thick fries, I believe.

"French Fries" are the minute frozen strings they serve at MCD et al.

The French are glad these have been renamed.

zzap sure sounds like he has a hardon for yanks.

That zzap yearns for big, strong hairy yanks has already been established.

Now he's come out, "Ulysses" finds it hard to restrain his pantasies.

"big, strong hairy yanks", hmm, I bet you cherish fond memories of those communal showers in the barracks!

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

I just love how at all the US government cafeterias they went and replaced the word "French" which isn't really a french word, with words like "Liberty" and "Patriot" which are.

cv

"big, strong hairy yanks", yumm

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

I just love how at all the US government cafeterias they went and replaced the word "French" which isn't really a french word, with words like "Liberty" and "Patriot" which are.

cv

They are English words which are derived from French ones.

They are English words which are derived from French ones.

They are incorrectly spelled french words

cv

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

I just love how at all the US government cafeterias they went and replaced the word "French" which isn't really a french word, with words like "Liberty" and "Patriot" which are.

cv

Missing the point though cv - the 'spirit' or 'essence' of the message was that we don't eat or want any 'stinkin' Froggie fries on our plates!

Missing the point though cv - the 'spirit' or 'essence' of the message was that we don't eat or want any 'stinkin' Froggie fries on our plates!

Couldn't help but notice you kept the statue.

Unlike the pomme frites, it actually came from France too

cv

"big, strong hairy yanks", yumm

Missing the point though cv - the 'spirit' or 'essence' of the message was that we don't eat or want any 'stinkin' Froggie fries on our plates!

Couldn't help but notice you kept the statue.

Unlike the pomme frites, it actually came from France too

cv

They regard it merely as a liability these days, a security risk they could do without.

Missing the point though cv - the 'spirit' or 'essence' of the message was that we don't eat or want any 'stinkin' Froggie fries on our plates!

Couldn't help but notice you kept the statue.

Unlike the pomme frites, it actually came from France too

cv

Well, not turning this thread into a Frog-Bash...perhaps zzap is right. It could be a Trojan Horse.

Y'all are wrong - they're called 'Freedom Fries'!

...but zzap knew this already

I just love how at all the US government cafeterias they went and replaced the word "French" which isn't really a french word, with words like "Liberty" and "Patriot" which are.

cv

Good one cdnvic !!!

French Fries are actually from Belgium, we all knew that (except the usual suspects) but they also speak French there. Poor yanks were probably confused with the French speaking Belgians when they stole the recipies