 While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Born to be fast (food, that is) - July 13 is National French Fries Day. No matter how you slice them – crinkle or shoestring, thick-cut or curly – plunking thin strips of potatoes in oil is the kind of salty fried goodness that can't be beat. Now we all know that "French" fries don't really have ties to France at all, but where did these snacktastic sticks come from? Many countries have a history of frying potato slices in oil and fat, but it was our own Thomas Jefferson who first referred to eating "potatoes served in a French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802. Just don't forget this wise mantra: "Shake and shake the ketchup bottle, none'll come and then a lot'll." |
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I like the baked steak fries my mom would make–just cut the potato in half, then in 3 slices each side, brush in olive oil and bake until soft YUM! And dip? Salsa! Fresh made is best!
I like to dip mine in mayonnaise; learned about that in a French restaurant. Up until then, I liked 'em in ketchup. I don't think I could ever enjoy them dipped into a milkshake, though. And definitely malt vinegar for fish and chips.
Best way is New Mexico style: French Fries covered with green chile and optionally, melted cheese. That's how they're done at Albuquerque's 66 Diner and the Frontier, among others.
Chili-Cheese Fries Are AOK with me!!
THRASHERS FRENCH FRIES are the ONLY wat to go...........@ the board walk in ocean city!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so the fries dipped in milkshake sounded disgusting to me too, but let me specify. It has to be ONLY a Wendy's chocolate frosty-a thick shake...nothing weird and milky, and their OLD fries, not that new skinny crap. I'm not big on dipping in ketchup, mustard is delicious on french fries, or a mustard mayo combination. Cheese is fine too, but again, it's only at Portillo's. A good french fry, like that of McDonald's, or at Checker's/Rally's can stand on it's own adn requires no dipping sauce at all.
Now let me get this straight. One article talks about taking the kids out of a loving home if they become fat. This article is about a national french fry day. So the idea here is get the kids fattened up through national commercial propaganda, so the government can take them away from their parents. Slim the kids down on some kind of soilentgreen product made from the bodies of our starving and homeless elderly thanks to the Tpotty. Then turn them into uneducated droid super soldiers to supply never ending fodder for the 4th, 5th and at least 6th war America is bound to start or be get itself involved in with the continuing delusional "policemen of the world" and "nation building" policies. Have I got that right.
It is all part of the grand liberal/neocon/freemason conspiracy to take over the world.
Now when you make your tinfoil hats, do you like the shiny part inside or out?
Balls... shiny side out, please. Isn't this fun!!!
Sweet Potato fries are amazing! A staple in my diet for sure.. and no.. I'm not obese haha
Agreed. Sweet potato fries are where the action is!
Ketchup and mayo is technically known as "Fancy Sauce" That is all.
Aren't we still calling them "Freedom Fries"?
French fries give me gas.
why don't we have a National Obese Person Day where we celebrate people who make poor decisions about to to shove into their pie holes?
We DO celebrate trolls HERE every day! Congratulations! You just got the #1 slot!
Best thing ever to dip fries in: buffalo sauce. If you like buffalo sauce at all then give it a try. You won't regret it.
Straight Franks or wing sauce?
Real buffalo sauce is the only way to go. Which is franks + melted butter, not just franks (cayenne pepper sauce, not buffalo) or bottled wing sauce (soybean oil instead of butter... yuck). Buffalo sauce and fries are amazing, theres nothing like it.
Try a side of ranch with the buffalo fries too.
Everyone knows that the "French" fries are actually from Belgium. Only in Belgium you find so many dishes on the menu with "Belgische Frieten" and nowhere else along the streets in all the towns you find the small shacks ( Frietkot) where you can buy fries with mayonnaise and other things.
Smiley Fries with Sour Cream (or Greek Yogurt w/ chopped jalepano.
The best conventional fries in the world are at The Varsity. As far as fancy fries, give me Poutine! Yum!
Or, to translate for our Tea Party friends, "freedom fries."
Thrashers! Swimming in vinegar. I burn my fingers every time bc I can't wait for them to cool down!
I love Chips( Brit for thick cut french fries), Cheese, and Gravy (poutine) tis yummy
If we need to have a day to celebrate food, it shouldn't be a food that has helped make our nation an obese one.
Someday when you grow up and get your own blog, you can pick what the National Food Day will be. Until then, have a seat in the stfu cafe and someone will be right with you.
Oh SSSSSSSSNPAZ! He/she told you!
Fried American sounds like The Drag Queen of Everything.
Bro! Where ya been, Dude!?
Negative, Ghostwriter. Nothing on me gets tucked but I can understand that may be a lifestyle with which you are familiar. Since you seem to be devoted fan of mine, let me please point out that I have never told someone to sit in the "stfu cafe". That's the hallmark of another commenter on this site. I'll leave you with this last little thought: Shut your piehole, Francis.
Blahaha! You have been totally punked, bi tch!
I need you to go on a diet America, you are too fat and the Chinese are eating your lunch, you lazy basturds.
The absolute best is taking In N Out Sauce and pouring it on your In N Out fries which are normally not that great.......but it transforms them into the greatest thing ever! But In N Out is only on the West Coast.
Since ranch dressing is the state bird if Texas (or someting like that) thats what this part of the country dips their fries in...but i like to mix a little bit of ketchup with my ranch and it adds a sweet and tangy flavor to those salty fries...it's slap yo mama good!
I love dipping my frenchfries in Whataburger Honey Mustard! I look forward to that every time I eat there.
Crinkle-cut fries with Mayo-Ketchup combo. Yum!
dip them in bbq sauce. Great! :)
Ilike to sprinkle vinegar on my fries
I'm not really a fan of french fries, but that picture makes me want to lick the screen...
I haven't had fries in a while, my personal favorites have to be the cheese fries they sell at Great Wraps, but without the bacon. I've dipped my fair share of fries into Frosties, but that's as far as I'll go, and it's just maybe once every 3 years or so. I can't tolerate it at such a constant interval. Another one of my favorite combinations would probably be Waffle Fries with Honey. Yum, I think I might go to Chick-fil-a later on today.
-and mayonaise is just... disgusting in my personal opinion. I can't imagine mayonaise on fries... just... ewh.
Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl, it is SO GOOD! Don't knock it til you try it.
WHOO HOO. Now I have an excuse for eating french fries today!
I was thinking the same thing, I haven't had fries in a couple of months.
Hahaha! Thinking the same thing here as well.
Waffle fries with ranch dressing.. or steak fries with fry sauce.
Gotta Dip my fries in hot sauce.
French fries don't have ties to France at all? When I stayed there they ate tons of fries in local restaurants. Sheesh!
In Utah a lot of people use fry sauce or pink sauce which is ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together. You see it a lot in LatinAmerica too as salsa rosada. Pretty good.
If I'm having fish and chips, I like to dip my fries in the tartar sauce. Yummmmmm. Fry sauce is also good, as is white gravy.
I personally like fries cut from real potatoes with skin on. then i like to dip them in babeque sauce. Ketchup is so bland and tasteless!
And American fatties just keep getting fatter...
Why? Because I read a post on Eatocracy?
Where are you from so I can make fun of the stereotypes of your nation?
When going to fastfood places I like to put the fries on my burger under the bun.
Yo Rob that's what up!...... Ever try putting potato chips on a Hoagie ,Sub, Hero or any cold cut sandwich ..........yum, yum yum!
I don't dip my fries in anything...I prefer them as they are. They left the "I don't dip them" option off of the poll assuming people always dip them.
French fries with mustard with lots of pepper
I love tater tots with fry sauce. Never heard of fry sauce until I moved West. It is a great mixture of ketchup, mayo, and some other tangy ingredients what ever it is made of it makes the potato pop.
Poutine! That's the best – fries, cheddar cheese curd and gravy. From French Canada (Quebec) and spilled over into the North Country in New York. Gotta have 'em with a Michigan!
Ketchup mixed with buffalo wing sauce. Yummy!
Got to dip them in some cold apple sauce!!
Mustard is awesome. So is barbeque sauce and shrimp sauce. Never, ever will I use ketchup. It's disgusting.
The best thing to dip fries in is so-called "fry sauce," which you will only find if you are in Utah, Idaho, or western Wyoming. The best, hands down. And among fry sauces, the best ever probably has to be what is served at a little establishment called Training Table in Provo, Utah. Trust me on this one.
I scrolled and scrolled and for a minute there I thought there's nobody but me that eats my fries with fry sauce, lo and behold I see your comment, whew..I knew there's somebody out there like me. Fry sauce rocks!!!!!!! I've lived in Texas for 30 yrs but originally from Idaho (lived there for 10 yrs) I think I am only one in Texas that do fry sauce and people give me a weird look. LOL
I like BBQ sauce. And, I'm happily surprised that people haven't used this article's comment section to start complaining about Obama. And only dorks call them "freedom fries". gimme a break!
Fat Americans
Pent up Canucks.
This American could go for some poutine about now.
Take off, eh
Dont forget its healthier cousin Hash Browns....cooked in a ring with onions and seasoning.
Scattered, covered, smothered, chunked. Now I have to get some good hash browns. And fries. And mix mustard, honey and hot sauce.
Regular cut with pure white vinegar. Canada sells pure white vinegar and it is not available in the states. The white vinegar in the US is distilled (I don't know why) and it doesn't taste good with food.
I hate these articles. I got up at 4:55 AM today and ran 6 miles, you fat people DO NOT need to be encouraged to eat french fries.
Sad fellow throwing the first stone at which he cannot even see. Such presumption.
Have some muffin tops do we Diane?
Fat or thin, people make choices every day whether CNN writes about them or not.
Now .... smell-o-vision ... that's another story.
Well good for you Robert! Lots of us know how to eat them in moderation and don't make a regular practice of eating them all the time. Judgmental much?
I love muffin tops Robert, especially chocolate chip. And if you hate these articles so much, why are you reading them and commenting? You sound grumpy; take a nap. Maybe your blood sugar is low.
I'd love to run your dumb running azz over. Di ckhead.
Where's the "fry sauce" selection??? in the west (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colo) we eat them with fry sauce! Ketchup mixed with spiced mayo... it's served at all the restaurants!! When I moved to Cali noone had ever heard of fry sauce!
The shape of the fry is less important than the requirement that they be very crispy on the outside.
Malt vinegar if eaten with fried fish; ketchup and mayo if eaten with a burger.
At home we make a fry sauce of mayo, ketchup, minced chipotles in adobo sauce, a little vinegar and a little sugar. YUM!
F the French and their stupid fries. Bunch of dang rifle droppers and frog lickers.
Mickey D's fries dipped in Sweet & Sour sauce.
Poutine is where it's at! There is no better way to eat fries than when they are covered in cheese and gravy.
I have to try that because it just sounds so wrong. Gravy on fries. Eh. Ok. I won't knock it 'til I try it.
In Amish country (Pennsylvania Dutch/Lancaster County, PA), gravy on fries is a given. And...it's a delicious given. I also love plain old white distilled (I know, I know) vinegar on my fries. YUMMY!
In the USA we call them "Freedom Fries!"
I'm pretty sure you are one of the very few people calling them "freedom fries." It was a dumb idea to begin with and has not gotten any better since.
I go to the Montreal Jazz Festival each June and I must say, Montreal does fries best. They make what they call Poutine. A giant portion of crispy golden shoe string fries covered with fresh cheese curds and topped off with a tasty poultry gravy. It's amazing. They take it a step further too. I had some with pulled pork on top a few weeks ago.
Poutine is the worst thing to come out of Canada since Justin Bieber and Celine Dion.
I guess that's your opinion but not Canada's.
Sounds very good.
i like to dip my curly fries in a mix of ranch & ketchup!, Mmm,,,, Yumm!!!!
In the Netherlands we eat them with mayo and hot sate (peanut) sauce.
The best is garlic rosemary fries dipped in aioli. Mmm.
Sweet Potatoe Fries w/Jerk Sauce washed down with beer
National French Fry day?
If that is the best that Americans can get excited, then go for it, but it only shows the fact that your tases are unrefined and pretty plebian. (look it up)
Fairly condescending for someone who stutters over the spelling of his own name. Unrefined is in the eye of the beholder, my friend.
Two truth's to wrap a European cabesa around is lots of 'Mericans like fried foods and French fries were purportedly invented in Belguim. That's also where those waffles were invented.
Many of us also have sophomoric senses of humor (look THAT up). HA!
First of all, you just made yourself look like an arse. The correct spelling of your "plebian" Is PLEBEIAN. So get off your soap box, look up the word in a dictionary. If you are going to make such a bold statement, please get it right.
Also, what are tases? I assume that you meant TASTES.
So, you all do realize that the double letter at the end of the name is the "secret handshake", right?
Yup! Hee-hee.
Now I do. LOL
Nah. It's a stutter. And it's condescending. A condescending stutter.
We are a barbaric and culture-less nation.....that can kick everyone else's butt 10 times over. Leave us to our barbaric pleasure and be glad we dont nuke you. GFUSD = God Forgives, Uncle San Doesn't.
Go back to France Fag.
Id like to stick a french fy in your nose.
Can you provide documentation so I look up how tases can be unrefined? That would be a great help.
What's a "tase"?
Plain Jane (but super salty) or dipped in sour cream... YUM
HOMEMADE RIGHT OUT OF THE PRESS... OR BOARDWALK FRIES... WITH ONLY ONE KIND OF MUSTARD... FRENCH'S YELLOW!
DO THEY MAKE MUSTARD SHAKES? IF SO I'D BE ALL OVER THEM... WENDYS FROSTY MAKES A GOOD BASE TOO. AS FOR HOT SAUCE IF ANYTHING GO WITH CRYSTAL. ITS MORE TASTE THAN HEAT.
Pipe down over there!
School's out;
No need to shout.
Shoestring sweet potato fries with cayenne pepper and sea salt with avocado yogurt sauce!
Orieda now makes sweet potatoe fries that are outstanding! Best fast food fries still has to be McD's hands down. There's nothing quite like them ... you can tell them apart from other places by smell alone! As for dipping, to each his own, but i'm either ketchup or ranch – depending on what's available or mood
It depends on the fry. Waffle, gotta go with cheese, green onion with salsa and sour cream. Steak fries make the best chili cheese – nice and big to hold a lot of the topping. Shoe string... it depends on what I'm eating with it. Fish fry – gotta go the malt vinegar route... Burger = ketchup... Chicken fingers – bleu cheese... chicken nuggets, BBQ or Honey.
Home made oven fries... just salt and ketchup, or I'll make them with onion soup mix and oil, then bake them. YUM
love my sweet potato fries with salt & pepper, and shoestring fries with Heinz 57 sauce or BBQ sauce...also Ranch w/Tabasco is awesome too, along with Wasbi Mayo and of course a vanilla shake...now I'm hungry, thanks alot :)
People who dip their fries in mayo or milkshakes need to have their heads examined.
I'll be the judge of that.
and this is a response coming from Goat Bottoms... I understand now.
Depends on where I am eating. Arbys – mix ketchup with Arbys sauce. Wendys if I get a choc. frosty dip in that. Everywhere else usually ketchup.
In N Out, animal style!!!
+1
I've never heard of nor seen anyone dip fries in a milkshake! I've lived in the NE, SE, SW, W and in the middle of the country and never seen that sounds awful! I like fries with mayo or ketchup, first choice is tartar sauce but it's usually not available.
I havnt either and it sounds disgusting and braindead
Now don't you worry yer purtee head 'bout that. Canuck School starts again in just a few weeks and you can go back to your normal life.
It's actually very good. It's like eating chocolate covered (or yogurt covered) pretzels. It combines the sweet with the salty. You really should try it before judging it. Unless you don't like milkshakes.
So, you've been to Wendy's and NOT dipped your fries in a frosty? You have no idea what you're missing!
The poem at the end of the article should be credited to Ogden Nash.
Fleas
Adam
Had'em
-Ogden Nash
Sour cream, sometimes with a little shredded cheese added. It's like a baked potato turned finger food.
Love to see you guys do a survey for the best waffle fry.
I like my fries VERY WELL Frenched–that is all.
I like poo tain fries.
mmmmmm ... poo tain fries
Mmmm, fried turtle.
Ketuchup mixed w/ mustard & hot sauce delicious!
Ketchup, mustard, mayo, worcestershire, and Crystal hot sauce......oh mama!
I like Steak fries since they're bigger and easier to handle with a fork to get maximum dipping potential.
As for the dip itself? I've tried each and everyone of those, so I can't really decide, so...all of the above? :D
Ketchup w/ Tabasco make 'em hot and tasty!
I could put Tobasco on donuts.
I like Tobasco on azz crack.
Me loves some azz crack dipped in Tobasco.
I thought the milkshake thing was a southern thing.. Definately not a North-Western thing D:
me too
I thought they were Freedom Fries now....
...Freedom Fries with Frenchs mustard....
Pardon me,Do you have any Gray Poopon?
No, but I do have some Brown Poopon.
My normal routine is ketchup, but I do love a good plate of chili cheese fries!
i agree
Sweet potato fries, lightly salted, the absolute best!
Agreed!
Mmmm. Last Summer Outback had some yummy SP fries. Crispy on the outside tender in the middle. A touch of salt and none of their offered honey glaze. Awesome!
Sweet Potato fries dipped in maple syrup is pretty much to die for. As for regular fries, I'll dip those in sweet and sour sauce.
Dipped in Honey Mustard. Mmmm Mmmmm Good :)
Yup.... they're the bomb...... Just plain... All by themselves......
" French fries " come from Belgium . The English soldiers fighting in Belgium during ww 1 called it French , the language of most Belgian officers in the Belgian army in those days...
Wouldn't they have been called Pomme Frites then...
I thought pomme was apple and pomme de terre was potato....
According to http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-french "pomme" is both.
Maybe someone who speaks Francais more fluently than an internet translator can clarify this.
I think they roughly translates to apple and apple of the earth.
Correct Pomme Was Apples And Pomme De Terre Was Used To Describe Potatoes Because The French Were Introduced To Them Around The 15th Century Or 17th Century(I Believe There Still Needs To Be A Lil More Research Done So They Can Pinpoint About When they Were Introduced...But Anyways Since They Were New Ppl Were Kind Freaked Out By Them So They Added Added On To A Term So It Would Kind balance Out....So They Liked Apples and Then "Apple Of The Earth" Sound A Bit Safer Since They Have Apple In The name :)
Gotta dip the fries in mustard! I always get weird looks until I make them try it then they like it. It's better than it sounds, honestly.
They are sooo good dipped in mustard! I also like them with vinegar, or if eating waffle fries, dipped in a cheese sauce....it grosses me out to see people dip 'em in mayo...or mayo and ketchup, ewwwwww. Living in the northeast, I have never seen anyone dip french fries in a milkshake, people do that???
Yum! I mix mustard in my ketchup for the best fry dippin'!
The most addicting by far is buffalo sauce. People think its weird at first but its the best thing you can do to a french fry. If ranch is on hand then thats an added bonus.
And Ive NEVER known a person who has gone back to ketchup after doing Mcdonalds fries with Sweet and Sour sauce. They all think its gross until I make them try it, then after that they only dip their mcdonalds fries in sweet and sour. It does not work with any other kind of fry or any other sweet and sour sauce though, only mcdonalds.
it has to be yellow mustard, not brown or spicy, and you have to mix it w/ ketchup...
Mustard all the way, baby!!!
mustard...it's spicy!
While I am a huge fan of waffle fries, my favorite are the rosemary/thyme fries from Good Stuff Eatery in DC dipped in their Chipotle Mayo. Also a fan of the sweet potato fries from Cheesecake Factory, again dipped in Chipotle mayo.
Stop! I promised myself I wouldnt stop at Good Stuff on my walk back from the cap south metro today! Those fries are the bomb, especially when fresh – I sometimes am disappointed by inconsistency in freshness there.
Whoa that pic is so lick-able. Dipping 'em depends on what I'm eating with 'em. With fish, I'll dip in vinegar. Anything else, get a dip in black market ketchup (nods to TWO).
Watching someone dip french fries in a milkshake makes me gag – so I try not to watch. Is that a Northern thing? I've only seen Delawareans do that.
If you wear mirrored sunglasses you can watch while being incognito.
My family in Pittsburgh do that so not sure, they also add hot sauce to the milkshake before dipping *shudder
Now I'm going to have to piggyback on Lulu's IV. I just lost breakfast AND my most-vital coffee. *urp*
I love dipping fries in a Wendys chocolate frosty. And I love dipping them in mayo too. Nasty good!
I guess, on balance, since I like ketchup on my corn & hot dogs, I can live with OTHER people dipping fries in a milkshake .... *hurl* ..... nope, guess I can't. ;)
Yes! A Wendy's Frosty is best for dipping fries!
Hubs like to dip his in gravy or au jus, soaked it it actually, never seen that before he did it. I like some ketchup with a squirt of mustard in the middle so I get a bit of both. Milkshakes?? ewwww, can't imagine that one.
SteakNShake is from IL so we LOVE their skinny crispy fries dipped in a hand made milkshake. Or in their chili (preferabley at 2 AM after the bar closes). I couldn't imagine dipping a fat steak fry in a milkshake. But drench them in melted cheese and add bacon bits and jalapenos and we are good to go. Burger King fries are best with ranch sauce but McD's are for the purist. Just the salt they are born with is enough.
Lordy,WD is already putting on weight just looking at the picture as these are her favorite food.
Im from Michigan and we dip out french frys in milkshakes too.. its so yummy!