Fry Linguistics 101

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

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

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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Fryday French Fry Fun Facts…Saturday Edition

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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Unusual Articles

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

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Fry-ology 101

…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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Fryday French Fry Fun Facts

Belgian Fries
From Wikipedia:

Jo Gerard, a Belgian historian, recounts that potatoes were already fried in 1680, in the area of “the Meuse valley between Dinant and Liège, Belgium. The poor inhabitants of this region allegedly had the custom of accompanying their meals with small fried fish, but when the river was frozen and they were unable [...]

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Fryday’s French Fry Fun Fact

From Stats. Canada: In 2005 the average Canadian consumed 6.4 kg (14.1 lbs) of french fries, approximately 40% of their total potato intake.
So, considering that a large fry at McDonald’s is 170 g, you could say that the average Canadian ate 37.6 large fries in 2005.
Come on…we can do better.

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French Fry Deceit

May be old news to some, but anyway…
The Lincoln Fry

This was an ad campaign launched by McDonald’s back in 2005.
From Museum of Hoaxes:
The Lincoln Fry Blog is supposed to be a journal kept by a couple, Mike and Liz, detailing their experiences after finding a french fry at McDonalds that looks a lot like [...]

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Fryday’s French Fry Fun Fact–Fries in Literature edition.

Apparently this is one of the earliest known references to ‘Chips’.
From ‘Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens (1859):
Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
Remember when you could [...]

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