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Fry Linguistics 101

Posted in cooking fries, education, fun facts, recipes on March 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »

When in Rome…say ‘patatine fritte’
Learn how to say ‘french fries’ in other languages at Belgianfries.com
There is also a recipe there for cooking fries the Belgian way.

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Fryday French Fry Fun Facts

Posted in education, fun facts on March 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »

From the Alamagordo Daily News:
The Netherlands is the world’s largest exporter of frozen potato products, accounting for more than half of world trade in the tuber.
They aren’t going to the United States, which exports more potatoes than it imports. The Dutch frozen potatoes are in demand from American fast food chains in Europe.
But in America, [...]

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Spud lovers month

Posted in education, fun facts on February 22, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Good news everyone. February is ‘National Potato Lover’s Month’…. Spudtober perhaps, but I guess, if you want to get all technical, Spudruary might be more appropriate.
Thankfully our friends at Amazon.com have a few products available to help us celebrate. Like this potato ricer for instance. I don’t know what I’d do [...]

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Revving the Search Engine

Posted in education, funny shit on February 21, 2007 | 13 Comments »

Looking through my blog stats recently I saw that a search engine term that led people to this blog was ‘poutine prostitute’. Interesting combination. My first thoughts were something about gravy and second degree burns, then french fry pimp, and then finally, what on my site could possibly be linked to this [...]

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The Universal Principles of Cat Pukery

Posted in animals, education, nature, nothing to do with fries, rants on February 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »

1. Cats instinctively (spitefully) seek out a puke zone with the following characteristics:
a) the puke zone must contain multiple objects
b) objects within the puke zone must be oddly shaped with multiple surfaces, holes, nooks and or crannies (e.g. [...]

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Fryday French Fry Fun Facts…Saturday Edition

Posted in education, fun facts, history on February 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

From an article in the Roseville Press Tribune:
It’s amazing the popularity of the French fry in this country. The average American consumes more than 140 pounds of potatoes annually, and 51 pounds of those are French Fries. More than 6 million pounds of potatoes are processed into frozen fries every year.
If you think McDonald’s and [...]

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Global Warmings

Posted in Environment, celebrities, education, funny shit, nothing to do with fries on February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Good stuff.
Will Ferrell doing George Dubyah on global warming.

‘Adam and Eve drove an Excursion’…ha ha ha

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Unusual Articles

Posted in cool shit, education, fun facts, funny shit, nothing to do with fries on February 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Time well wasted.
Wikipedia’s list of unusual articles.

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The Perfect Chip

Posted in cooking fries, education on December 19, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Seems that many people end up on my blog via searches for “the perfect french fry” and such.  I stumbled across this webpage which has mucho mucho information in this regard from a British perspective.

To make enough chips to serve 4, peel and cut 675 g potatoes and cut [...]

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Fry-ology 101

Posted in Science & Technology, education, fun facts on December 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »

…and yes, this material will be on the midterm.
From UC Davis Magazine:

Metamorphosis
The most important factor that distinguishes a potato from a french fry is its layers. A raw potato is 100 percent “core,” with no crunchy crust to please the palate. A potato chip, on the other hand, is 100 percent crust, crisp all [...]

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