Comment on US Frites

Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Correct. The “frites” part means exactly the same as “fries” (well, technically it means “fried”).

  Americans just LOVE to make things sound fancier by adding “French” to the name to give it some “ooh là là”. See also: “French” vanilla ice cream (everywhere else in the world it’s just vanilla).

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  • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actually, French vanilla is used when actual vanilla bean is used in the flavouring, if t just says vanilla its either artificial or a miniscule amount of extract.

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    • __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      French vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream in the French style. The ice cream is French not the vanilla.

      French vanilla ice cream has egg yolks. Regular vanilla ice cream does not.

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    • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lul, instead oft making vanilla mean (real) vanilla and calling fake “vanilla flavoured” or vanilin like a sane person

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  • Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My favorite is French Toast. It’s just “golden bread”, pain doré.

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah it’s “pain perdu” which means lost bread. It’s list because it’s too hard to eat normally anymore

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      • Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s called that where you are? In Quebec we call French Toast “pain doré”. :)

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  • __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “French Fries” is a shortening of “French fries potatoes” and they indeed came to America via France.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      French fried potaters

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Indeed. Actually the real french word is “fries”, and “frites” is a mistake children make, like saying “pourrites” instead of “pourries”

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  is it not pommes frites? fried apples?

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  • Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My bad. I had really bad nausea when typing that. Patate frites. I messed up the pomme de terre in there.

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