French is actually the language of the fries.
Curious, so why is it I never heard them talk in French?
You don’t listen.
Well, have you given them any reason to want to talk to you? Or are you just murdering them all slowly with your mastication?
See, if you just sat there and killed a large stack of my friends and countrymen, I wouldn’t want to talk to you either.
I’m not telling you anything you murderer!
I’m not telling you anything you murderer!
You wrote a whole comment. Checkmate liberal
You sure got me!
2003 Americans: “Freedom made this”
America… Fuck Yeah!
That was in 2001 iirc
2003 was the Iraq invasion that France rightly opposed and led to the creation of freedom fries.
Isn’t it short for french-cut fried potatoes and had nothing to do with France at all?
Well, France developed the cut. No?
Eh, they just liked it a lot. But they definitely popularized it and detailed usages of it in books. They didn’t invent “cut it long and thin” though, since that’s just basic knife work whose origin is lost to time.
Potatoes are a food native to the Americas and the Belgians claiming them is cultural appropriation. French fries are Chilean.
This is a joke, right?
Spaghetti is an Asian-Native American fusion dish.
Kinda but also, it’s true. Potatoes come from the Incan Empire
Which has practically nothing to do with Chile lol more like Peru / Bolivia
All three, tbh
What about Chile fries? (I jest).
I was curious about French Toast the other day. Turns out it was invented by someone with the last name French and the intention was to call it French’s Toast. But when he printed the name, he forgot the apostrophe and ‘S’!
Similar story with German chocolate cake. It was German’s chocolate cake. A guy named German.
And Black Forest cake was actually created by Forest Whitaker.
That’s a legend; the name was used in England before the mythical Mr. French existed in the US!
(also French Toast was invented at least before the 6th Century)
In Poland we have Greek style fish, Ukrainian borscht and Russian pierogi. None of which have anything to do with the place they are named after.
I forgot about French pastry. Which I just puff pastry, but we call it French pastry for some reason. Doesn’t it come from Ireland?
A little correction, the name “ruskie pierogi” comes not from Russia but from Red Ruthenia/Red Rus, or Ruś Czerwona in Polish, a region in western Ukraine.
I thought pierogi was polish 🤔
As all dishes, it’s not from a specific country, but from a region of the world. Eastern Europ in this case. When we fill them with potatoes, we call it russian style. Apparently Russians like carbs.
Who wants to claim our Brussels Sprouts? Go ahead, take them. Nobody? Well well well.
Brussels sprouts look and taste like little green brains. I have no idea what brain actually tastes like, but I imagine it’s brussels sprouts.
Brussel sprouts are delicious. Modern versions have had their bitterness bred out. Roasted until crispy with olive oil and garlic and salt and they’re fantastic.
Problem is the fools that boil or steam them. That way lies little green brains.
They taste like the worst version of a cabagge and they smell god awful while being prepared. I do believe some michelin star chef could make me a version I can eat but it would be a much more involved version not just roasted till crispy.
I promise you that roasted in olive oil with light salt and pepper until crispy is the best. But taste is relative.
I will try this
While roasting them add some diced dates, bacon, onions and maybe peppers and you have the best dish ever made
IDK if it’s cause I’m starving right now or what but this sounds amazing.
Then carefully remove the sprouts and eat the rest.
But… alliteration is always awesome.
We could have called them Flemish fries.
Even as a homophone, I don’t want the word phlegm associated with my salty snacks.
Don’t call me homophonobic though, I support phonemes of all stars, stripes, and identities.
Alternatively, alliteration am always awesome
Hot dogs are bastardized from three separate Germanic names. Frankfurt sausages sounded a bit formal, so you got “hot dachshunds,” except Americans could neither spell nor pronounce the name of that breed, so you get “hot dogs.” If you asked what a hot dog was you’d probably be told it’s a wiener on a bun, where the English word “wiener” is a loanword from the German conjugation of “from Vienna.” And we’ve come full circle by routinely referring to dachshunds as wiener dogs.
The less-fun tangent about the prominence of German food in American culture is that New York was famed for its wealthy German-American families until all their wives and children were on a boat that sank. I am not joking.
Quick note, just to be a pedantic arsehole: conjugation is specific to verbs. The general term is declension, which includes conjugation, but more broadly refers to the changing of a word depending on its semantical context
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
The kind of correct you can’t be mad at.
This is incorrect btw. Conjugation is not a special form of declension. Declension does not apply to verbs. The general term for both is morphology.
Survivors reported that the life preservers were useless and fell apart in their hands, while desperate mothers placed life jackets on their children and tossed them into the water, only to watch in horror as their children sank instead of floating. Most of those on board were women and children who, like most Americans of the time, could not swim; victims found that their heavy wool clothing absorbed water and weighed them down in the river.[9]: 108–113
t was discovered that Nonpareil Cork Works, supplier of cork materials to manufacturers of life preservers, placed 8 oz (230 g) iron bars inside the cork materials to meet minimum content requirements (6 lb (2.7 kg) of “good cork”) at the time. Nonpareil’s deception was revealed by David Kahnweiler’s Sons, who inspected a shipment of 300 cork blocks.[5]: 71–72 Many of the life preservers had been filled with cheap and less effective granulated cork and brought up to proper weight by the inclusion of the iron weights. Canvas covers, rotted with age, split and scattered the powdered cork. Managers of the company (Nonpareil Cork Works) were indicted but not convicted. The life preservers on the Slocum had been manufactured in 1891 and had hung above the deck, unprotected from the elements, for 13 years.[9]: 118–119
What a disaster, fuck
On the plus side they didn’t have to live to see their home country get fucked twice in a row.
I know what you’re saying, but their home country was America.
No, Freedom made this.
It has been established that the earliest recorded recipes of fries are French.
Which is debated as there are signs that point towards Spain having done it first. Then there’s the fact that Belgium says they developed it first, not the French, and that remains hotly debated.
It’s almost like people aren’t entirely sure where French fries came from yet north America insists on calling them French anyway. Wonder if a meme can be made from that?
I’ll simplify things for you. I invented french fries. Anyone who says otherwise is a dirty liar
I always thought they were called French fries because they’re French style, as in cut into long thing pieces. Til!
In Finland they’re just called French. Plural.
That might be worse than Germany insisting shrimp scampi comes “with shrimps.”
Sounds like everyone invented it
Belgians: And I took that personally…
I did though
Actually…my nation made it. Every popular food item you can think of actually.
Then I spread them around your planet and had my agents whisper in people’s ears to say things about them all.
Finally, an explanation for the universality of Swedish meatballs.
Germany is French, right?
Then the French play the Uno reverse card and invent “Le sandwich américain”
To be fair, I just looked that up and it does seem like something we would come up with…
Yss it does. It looks delicious.
https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2022/05/le-sandwich-americain/
I mean, it’s basically a cheeseburger with an accent, hard to go wrong there. It looks delicious.
Can’t have a food thread without you. Our matrix channel is a cooking channel now lmao
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Is it that time again?
LOL yes, it def a coffee vase day. I think I may need two 😐
Oh hey, OpenDyslexic font.
