A new random thread

[Tsukiyumi]

Well, for me the biggest problem with me is my memory is shot...

After my recent accident, my short-term is f*cked. So, I can relate.






...Wait, where am I?

[Lt. Staplic]

Greetings from France everyone... found a moment to get on the internet, thought i would pop in and say hi

It's not too late! Get out while you still can!

Snarl at someone!!!! They'll surrender!!


By the way, do the french call fries "American Fries"?

no they are called <<pomme-frites>>

[Tsukiyumi]

Lame.

[Mikey]

Leave it to the French to call French fries "fried apples."

[Sionnach Glic]

By the way, do the french call fries "American Fries"?

They call them frites.

AFAIK, the US is the only place to call them French Fries. Everywhere else in the English speaking world just calls them chips (unless you're in a McDonald's).

[Mikey]

They call them frites.

Which is short for pomme frites, which itself comes from the French term for potatoes which is pommes de terre - "apples of the earth." Ignoring the vernacular in order to make a joke, pommes frites literally translates as "fried apples."

AFAIK, the US is the only place to call them French Fries. Everywhere else in the English speaking world just calls them chips (unless you're in a McDonald's).

Which is a bit odd, as the name "French fries" comes from the method used to cut them - however, the term "French fries" has long since expanded to include all different shapes of riced, deep fried potato bits, whether they are French-cut or not.

However, we can't use the word "chips," as that properly refers to what you people erroneously call "crisps."

[Reliant121]

Well We've always used chips to refer to the fat chips, and french fries to refer to thin chips.

maybe thats just us.

[Mikey]

Meh, doesn't matter anyway - the only ones worth a damn anyway are good old thick-cut, skin-on Jersey shore boardwalk fries.

[stitch626]

Meh, doesn't matter anyway - the only ones worth a damn anyway are good old thick-cut, skin-on Jersey shore boardwalk fries.

Agreed.

[Tsukiyumi]

Meh, doesn't matter anyway - the only ones worth a damn anyway are good old thick-cut, skin-on Jersey shore boardwalk fries.

Which is why I bought a deep fryer; can't buy 'em? Make them yourself.

[Reliant121]

We tend to stray away from the deep fat fryer. mainly cause dad is somewhat...deadly with it.

[Tsukiyumi]

Do I even want to ask?

[Tyyr]

Lemme guess, filled it to the brim with oil THEN put the food in?

[Mikey]

Ain't displacement a bitch?

I use a good ol' stovetop cast fryer - I don't trust the electric ones, and oil loses heat too rapidly for a heating element rather than a burner.

[Tyyr]

I've seen some good ones, kept the heating element immersed in the oil rather than under the container and the element was a beast. Expensive as hell though. I still use my good old fashioned cast iron pan. Can't fry up a ton of stuff at once but hey, toddlers don't eat that much anyways.