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BAH!! You uppity brits dont know whats going on!
see, you take fat, fry it in some fat, and pour on some cream and bread it, then fry that. mmmm mmm mm. its good with MSG.
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No, actually I eat french fries with vinegar all the time. I picked it up more or less from my father, who is originally from Canada, so I think it kind of migrated south.
Anyhow, I've never dipped fries in mayonaise, but from just imagining what that combination tastes like and the amount of saturated fat that you get from eating ONE fry I begin to convulse simply by thinking about it.
And here's a question: If brits call french fries "chips" then what do they call potato chips (the ones that go CRUNCH when you eat them, often times paired with salsa if its the tortia variety)?
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Travis Bickle, in the classic movie Taxi Driver, ordered a piece of apple pie with a slice of american cheese on his lunch date with betsy. and mayo is VERY good with french fries (as is vinegar).
quote: And here's a question: If brits call french fries "chips" then what do they call potato chips (the ones that go CRUNCH when you eat them, often times paired with salsa if its the tortia variety)?
Crisps, I believe.
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well, Americans invented them, and their chips, dammit, CHIPS!!!!
btw, do fish and chips still get served in cones of newspaper? i had it that way in australia a long time ago, and it was a very charming presentation, a friend of mine had them like that in england an equally long time ago. i'm sure that there is now some health law forbidding it, *sigh*.
I think the health regulators would be more concerned with the fish and chips themselves than the method of presentation.
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Yes, crisps. And we invented chips, so you're in the wrong by calling them french fries, nyah.
Anyway. Fish and chips is these days generally served in a wrapping of greaseproof paper, surrounded by a few sheets of plain white paper like any grocer or butcher or baker might use to wrap something up. Haven't seen fish'n'chips in newspaper for a long time. . .
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