Were they invented when Belgium was a part of France?
Who wants to claim our Brussels Sprouts? Go ahead, take them. Nobody? Well well well.
Brussels sprouts look and taste like little green brains. I have no idea what brain actually tastes like, but I imagine it’s brussels sprouts.
Btw, you can cook and taste brain. It’s not the most common thing to find, but you can sometimes find it at a butcher shop, along with the insides of other animals
It’s actually super good, like meat flavored butter
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The human brain is the best! sarcasm
Brussel sprouts are delicious. Modern versions have had their bitterness bred out. Roasted until crispy with olive oil and garlic and salt and they’re fantastic.
Problem is the fools that boil or steam them. That way lies little green brains.
They taste like the worst version of a cabagge and they smell god awful while being prepared. I do believe some michelin star chef could make me a version I can eat but it would be a much more involved version not just roasted till crispy.
I promise you that roasted in olive oil with light salt and pepper until crispy is the best. But taste is relative.
I will try this
While roasting them add some diced dates, bacon, onions and maybe peppers and you have the best dish ever made
IDK if it’s cause I’m starving right now or what but this sounds amazing.
Then carefully remove the sprouts and eat the rest.
We call them pommes frites in Denmark
It’s papa fritas in Spanish
Tot poles in the US
No, Freedom made this.
What kind of savage puts their freedom fries in a bowl?
See, as someone who doesn’t live in Europe, I honestly have a hard time telling which horizontal/vertical striped lines of red/white/orange/blue/black/brown/whatever, represent which countries. All I know is: that’s not the flag of France. I have no idea which country it’s for.
I also have trouble with all but a few of the country codes (the two letter notation for a country), and states by their letter codes, with few exceptions… for countries, I know like… CA is Canada, US is the USA, UK is England/United Kingdom (and I know those are two different things, but I don’t know why or how they’re different). For States I know like… NY for new York and CA for California… and like DC for Washington DC (which is different from the state of Washington).
Apart from that and maybe a few others, idfk. And yes, I did not do very well in geography class…
In any case, this joke almost went over my head and I’m still not sure whose flag that is.
It’s the Belgian flag
In Poland we have Greek style fish, Ukrainian borscht and Russian pierogi. None of which have anything to do with the place they are named after.
I forgot about French pastry. Which I just puff pastry, but we call it French pastry for some reason. Doesn’t it come from Ireland?
I thought pierogi was polish 🤔
As all dishes, it’s not from a specific country, but from a region of the world. Eastern Europ in this case. When we fill them with potatoes, we call it russian style. Apparently Russians like carbs.
A little correction, the name “ruskie pierogi” comes not from Russia but from Red Ruthenia/Red Rus, or Ruś Czerwona in Polish, a region in western Ukraine.
America had just bad eyesight or the belgian flag was already faded. So black became more blueish and yellow became white.
Oh not this black-yellow or blue-white game again!
Oh, I know this one! I hear Yanny
Then the French play the Uno reverse card and invent “Le sandwich américain”
To be fair, I just looked that up and it does seem like something we would come up with…
Yss it does. It looks delicious.
https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2022/05/le-sandwich-americain/
I mean, it’s basically a cheeseburger with an accent, hard to go wrong there. It looks delicious.
That just looks like the French took a cheeseburger and fries meal, stuffed the fries inside the burger, then replaced the bread with their own to make it slightly more french.
Yeah that’s correct, but now you can find plenty of different recipes with local flavors
Missing the Honolulu with salad, tomatoes, frites, and spam, and the Tokyo with salad, tomatoes, frites, tofu, and spam, and the Guam with salad, tomatoes, frites, spam, eggs, and spam, and the Belfast with salad, tomatoes, frites, kippers, spam, and spam, and the Helsinki with salad, tomatoes, frites, spam, licorice, spam, hakarl, and spam, and the Mumbai with salad, tomatoes, frites, sultana korma with green cardamom sauce on slow-roasted cashews, and spam.
So much spam
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The frites seem to be non-negotiable.
Frites frites frites frites because we are tired of always saying baguette baguette baguette.
And salade and tomates too
It puts the frites on the sammy, or else it gets the French body-slammy
Can’t have a food thread without you. Our matrix channel is a cooking channel now lmao
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Is it that time again?
LOL yes, it def a coffee vase day. I think I may need two 😐
The next Word should be turkey.
I really don’t understand why Belgium is so upset about this. They’re literally fried potatoes. Choose something else.
I don’t know why you think the entire country of Belgium has anything to do with this and it’s not just a joke to laugh about language in the US.
I had a Belgian roommate one time, and he was very upset about it.
Especially since they didn’t invent the fried potato. The French did. They invented cutting the potato in sticks instead of disks to fry them…
froid potato
Especially since they didn’t invent the fried potato. The French did.
Can we really say that with any certainty? Frying is a pretty basic cooking technique, and potatoes became a very common ingredient. Maybe it really caught on in France, but I’m sure just about anybody who was eating potatoes must have tried them fried on occasion.
This is “who invented the sandwich” all over again when what we really mean is “who named the sandwich”. We credit the Earl of Sandwich for the invention, but sandwiches have existed for as long as bread has. I mean there are only so many things you can do with bread and slicing it and putting other food in between is beyond obvious.
Now I’m hungry.
But considering sliced bread is treated as an amazing invention (at least the phrase “best thing since sliced bread” would have you believe that) then maybe whoever invented sliced bread was also responsible for inventing sandwiches.
As for what people did before sliced bread? I’ve seen people tear pieces from a bread loaf and use it to soak liquids, so I assume that was the method used for all uses of bread.
I’ll never get over Polandball calling them “made-up waffle country.”
THEY’RE NOT JUST FRIED POTATOES THEY ARE A CULINARY MASTERPIECE! THEY’RE CRISPY ON THE OUTSIDE, FLUFFY ON THE INSIDE, AND SERVED WITH A DIZZYING ARRAY OF SAUCES AND TOPPINGS THAT ELEVATE THEM TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF DELICIOUSNESS!!
The term “frenching” is also a culinary term that means preparing food for even cooking and to make it visually appealing.
Man, we did that in middle school too
Even though we werent visually appealing…
Says you, I slayed.
I got hungy :(
I was curious about French Toast the other day. Turns out it was invented by someone with the last name French and the intention was to call it French’s Toast. But when he printed the name, he forgot the apostrophe and ‘S’!
In france we call it “pain perdu”, lost bread
I really like that.
That’s a legend; the name was used in England before the mythical Mr. French existed in the US!
(also French Toast was invented at least before the 6th Century)
Similar story with German chocolate cake. It was German’s chocolate cake. A guy named German.
And Black Forest cake was actually created by Forest Whitaker.
Isn’t it short for french-cut fried potatoes and had nothing to do with France at all?
Well, France developed the cut. No?
Eh, they just liked it a lot. But they definitely popularized it and detailed usages of it in books. They didn’t invent “cut it long and thin” though, since that’s just basic knife work whose origin is lost to time.
