A possible french fry shortage is looming due to poor potato crop this year

[Stevicus]

I am sure that wars will be started if this threat goes on for any significant amount of time. In the meantime, people who want fries with that will find the fries costing more than the that, and will make appropriate economic decisions, such as seeking substitutes. For others, the increased price of spuds will be only a minor inconvenience, simply costing them more, which because they're rich, will not result in any sensible economic choices.

It sounds like there might be some kind of underground black market in potatoes, headed up by some shadowy figure known only as "Mr. Potato Head."

 

[exchemist]

I thought they had been renamed freedom dries after france refused to bow down to american war mongering.

Has the (incorrect*) name snuck back or didn't it ever disappear?

* French fries (english chips) are actually a Belgian invention.

Side note, potato chips (english crisps) will also be effected. Last year in Europe potatoes grew unnaturally small and potato chips (crisps) were affected

They were "freedom fries" after 9/11, when France refused to get involved in Dubba's and Blair's imbecile invasion of Iraq. Then, when that duly started to go pear-shaped as predicted, for while they were in some quarters known as f***-up fries.

Finally I think the idea was quietly forgotten, along with the Project for a New American Century (remember that? ) and they are once more french fries.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Fish and chips with tartar sauce (mayonnaise with a bit of pickle relish) for the fries and vinegar for the fish. A western Washington tradition.

Must be malt vinegar!

 

[ChristineM]

Sorry but it has to be Fish, chips and peas with salt and vinegar; preferably wrapped in last Sunday's newspaper so you can read the sport/gossip whilst feasting on the balanced diet.

Thats going back a bit, isn't it illegal to wrap fish and chips in old newspaper now? Certainly not seen it since i was a kid.

 

[ChristineM]

i have had both Thai and Indian curries, but they do not seem to be favored in local Chinese restaurants.

Nah, not Chinese restaurants, Chinese (or British) fish and chip shops.

 

[Altfish]

Thats going back a bit, isn't it illegal to wrap fish and chips in old newspaper now? Certainly not seen it since i was a kid.

Yes, usually get them in 'boxes' now; too small boxes that at least an inch of the fish sticks out both sides.- it's not the same.
How many people died from eating out of old newspapers?
It's like pubs refusing to serve your beer in the glass you've just had the previous pint. Crazy and they try to blame it on H&S

 

[exchemist]

Ketchup works too, most fish and chip shops in the uk have mayo and ketchup bottles on the counter as well as salt and vinegar.

Many also make their own curry sauce. Often with raisins in it which i avoided like the plague. But some create a palatable sauce that closely mimics a good Chinese curry sauce.

Yeah. A "good Chinese curry sauce" just about sums it up.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Must be malt vinegar!

That is a given.

 

[ChristineM]

Yes, usually get them in 'boxes' now; too small boxes that at least an inch of the fish sticks out both sides.- it's not the same.
How many people died from eating out of old newspapers?
It's like pubs refusing to serve your beer in the glass you've just had the previous pint. Crazy and they try to blame it on H&S

Yup, but it does have its up side. When we moved here the packers wrapped everything in chip shop paper, reason being , its a good size, its slightly greaseproof and hence water proof and it's cheap.

The upside is we have paper for fire lighting for the next 10 years.

 

[exchemist]

Yes, usually get them in 'boxes' now; too small boxes that at least an inch of the fish sticks out both sides.- it's not the same.
How many people died from eating out of old newspapers?
It's like pubs refusing to serve your beer in the glass you've just had the previous pint. Crazy and they try to blame it on H&S

You realise you are a mere hairsbreadth away from railing against 'ewf'n'safety-gone-mad, like some sort of taxi driver - or Nigel Farage.

 

[ChristineM]

Yeah. A "good Chinese curry sauce" just about sums it up.

But its ideal for pouring over chips

 

[exchemist]

Yup, but it does have its up side. When we moved here the packers wrapped everything in chip shop paper, reason being , its a good size, its slightly greaseproof and hence water proof and it's cheap.

The upside is we have paper for fire lighting for the next 10 years.

...the downside being you couldn't fight your way to the front door, through all the paper, for the first three......

 

[Subduction Zone]

Nah, not Chinese restaurants, Chinese (or British) fish and chip shops.

Chinese fish and chips? Sounds like Korean teriyaki.

 

[ChristineM]

...the downside being you couldn't fight your way to the front door, through all the paper, for the first three......

Certainly after delivery we had to use the back door for 3 weeks but since then... We have a handy outbuilding.

 

[ChristineM]

Chinese fish and chips? Sounds like Korean teriyaki.

You just aren't getting the british slant, brit fish and chips with chinese curry sauce on top.

 

[exchemist]

But its ideal for pouring over chips

I am a convert to the Belgian practice of making mayonnaise to go with my home-made (pseudo) chips. Except that I put garlic in it, which I don't think the Belgians do. I got the idea from Dutch kibbeling, which are rather good: Kibbeling - Wikipedia In fact I can now get cod cheeks at my fishmonger.

 

[exchemist]

Certainly after delivery we had to use the back door for 3 weeks but since then... We have a handy outbuilding.

........made of papier maché from all the paper?

 

[Vinayaka]

Bud died.

 

[ChristineM]

I am a convert to the Belgian practice of making mayonnaise to go with my home-made (pseudo) chips. Except that I put garlic in it, which I don't think the Belgians do. I got the idea from Dutch kibbeling, which are rather good: Kibbeling - Wikipedia In fact I can now get cod cheeks at my fishmonger.

We have a Dutch restaurant close by, the sort of place that puts you off Dutch cuisine ;-)

 

[Revoltingest]

Gravy is good, or chinese curry, salt and malt vinegar is nice but the best, and in the tradition of the inventors so it must be right is mayonnaise, it beats them all

Where's the <ugh!> froobal when we need it!
Mayo on fries? Blechughcharccchhhh!
Permissible enhancements....
Vinegar
Salt
Ketchup (not catsup)
Fermented habenero sauce