French bravery - the classic oxymoron

[jorvik]

Yeah we have chips with cheese on them over here "cheesey chips" so I guess it wouldn't be too bad.in holland they put mayo on their chips

and have bannana flavoured crisps

[AAAhmed46]

Yeah we have chips with cheese on them over here "cheesey chips" so I guess it wouldn't be too bad.in holland they put mayo on their chips

and have bannana flavoured crisps

What? No gravy?

[Bill Glasheen]

Someone correct me if im wrong but here is how i HEARD the story go:

Apprently during the second world war a devision or platoon or whatever group of soldiers had just potatoes, gravy, cheese curds.

Being creative, they made fries, put gravy on the potatoes and put cheese curds on it.

Thus we got poutine.



Now this could be seriously flawed 'history' so....

I'm happy to offer an outside source here, Adam.

- Bill

Origins
The dish originated in rural Quebec, Canada in the late 1950s and is now popular all over the country, especially in New Brunswick. Several communities claim to be the origin of poutine, including Drummondville, Quebec (by Jean-Pierre Roy) and Victoriaville, Quebec. The most popular tale is the one of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented in 1957, when a customer ordered fries while waiting for his cheese curds from the Kingsey cheese factory in Kingsey Falls (now in Warwick and bought by Saputo). Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine ("it will make a hell of a mess"), hence the name. The sauce was allegedly added later, to keep the fries warm longer. Linguists have found no occurrence of the word poutine with this meaning earlier than 1978.

- Wikipedia

[Willy]

I knew a Brit who put mayo and taco meat on French fries….er freedom fries. It looked gross to me



The Yanks are keen on ketchup, hell they put it on and in everything!










They can’t get enough of the sexy tomato sauce



Lots of folks are confused with what to do with pom frits.

[f.Channell]

That worm is a riot!

The ketchup thing in the states is huge. Partly because all the big burger franchises offer it. Ketchup is now outsold by salsa though.

A friend showed me the malt vinegar thing once at a Irish pub and that is quite good on the fries.

By rural Quebec do they mean the Eastern Townships?

Those odd cheese concoctions look interesting, I'll have to try it someday.

Looks like it might take a few years off though.

F.

[jorvik]

Fred it's a pity that you had to go into an Irish pub to taste English food

in my country there are "Irish Sandwhich bars" ...what the hell is an Irish sandwhich.
Sandwhiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwhich.very definitly English

[Aaaargh]

The ketchup thing in the states is huge. Partly because all the big burger franchises offer it. Ketchup is now outsold by salsa though.

Not so- that was a bit of sensationalism in the media a few years ago. Sales of salsa did briefly have a higher gross- but salsa is more than twice as expensive per ounce than ketchup. In the US ketchup sells ~10 million ounces/year and climbing compared to ~4 million for salsa (Forbes.com).

[Bill Glasheen]

It's worth mentioning that various forms of cooked tomatoes (ketchup, marinara sauce, etc.) are excellent sources of lycopene. The readily available form of lycopene in cooked tomatoes has been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer - the most common cancer found in men.

So maybe the Yanks are on to something here. After all, we've been accused more than a few times with various obsessions...

See article in WebMD

Kids who love their fries here think ketchup is one of the 4 basic food groups.

- Bill

[Willy]

http://www.actahort.org/books/301/301_2.htm




The special sauce has taken the nation by storm Bill. A food group all by it's self.