Comment on US Frites
Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Trick question. They’re called patate frites normally, but everyone just calls them frites.
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).
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.
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.
Lul, instead oft making vanilla mean (real) vanilla and calling fake “vanilla flavoured” or vanilin like a sane person
My favorite is French Toast. It’s just “golden bread”, pain doré.
Nah it’s “pain perdu” which means lost bread. It’s list because it’s too hard to eat normally anymore
Maybe it’s called that where you are? In Quebec we call French Toast “pain doré”. :)
“French Fries” is a shortening of “French fries potatoes” and they indeed came to America via France.
Indeed. Actually the real french word is “fries”, and “frites” is a mistake children make, like saying “pourrites” instead of “pourries”
lime@feddit.nu 1 week ago
is it not pommes frites? fried apples?
Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My bad. I had really bad nausea when typing that. Patate frites. I messed up the pomme de terre in there.