When I lived in Belgium as a child (1977-1980), I loved the pommes-frites you could buy at stands in the marketplace of most larger towns and cities...
They would be served inside a cone made from rolled newspapers... I guess the EU has probably outlawed that way of serving food.
I never liked mayonnaise (I still don't) and would always try to ask for ketchup, but of course no one knew what that was. "Avez-vous de ketchup?" was always met with blank stares.
Sometimes they would serve me "sauce Americain"... sometimes that meant a red tomato sauce (tasted like canned tomato paste, not sweet like American ketchup) or sometimes it was a pink sauce which tasted just like mayonnaise anyway.
I would give the frites that were covered in mayonnaise to my mom or dad, and eat all of the rest of them.
Do they serve real American-style ketchup at frites stands now, I wonder?
How about vinegar? A la anglaise?
I like the sound of the peanut sauce... "frites satay" perhaps.
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Looks like a bit of fun! Nice landscape in the background, too.
I hear the best chips are actually in Belgium even though us in the UK think it's us.
When I lived in Belgium as a child (1977-1980), I loved the pommes-frites you could buy at stands in the marketplace of most larger towns and cities...
They would be served inside a cone made from rolled newspapers... I guess the EU has probably outlawed that way of serving food.
I never liked mayonnaise (I still don't) and would always try to ask for ketchup, but of course no one knew what that was. "Avez-vous de ketchup?" was always met with blank stares.
Sometimes they would serve me "sauce Americain"... sometimes that meant a red tomato sauce (tasted like canned tomato paste, not sweet like American ketchup) or sometimes it was a pink sauce which tasted just like mayonnaise anyway.
I would give the frites that were covered in mayonnaise to my mom or dad, and eat all of the rest of them.
Do they serve real American-style ketchup at frites stands now, I wonder?
How about vinegar? A la anglaise?
I like the sound of the peanut sauce... "frites satay" perhaps.
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