All countries are different, tell me a fact about your country.

Someone put the Townsend on that track. There will be nutmeg involved, but that is ok by me.
 
SirDice said:
That's quite likely, as potatoes originally came from that region and were brought to Europe by the early explorers (Columbus and co.).

Thinly sliced, probably more akin to what we'd call "chips" nowadays.
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AFAIK what's "French fries" in the US it's called "chips" in the UK and rest of Commonwealth. Although, I'm only sure about South Africa, no one there will have a clue what you are talking about if you order "French fries".

Funny thing, here in Serbia, "chips" (čips/чипс) is what you described, thinly sliced potato into round pieces, while for the "French fries" we use French term "pommes frites", slightly changed in pronunciation to "pomfrit/помфрит"

BTW, over here we got potato quite late, first brought in 1806. In the beginning folks were very suspicious and refused to eat that "devil's seed" 🤪
 
vmisev said:
Funny thing, here in Serbia, "chips" (čips/чипс) is what you described, thinly sliced potato into round pieces, while for the "French fries" we use French term "pommes frites", slightly changed in pronunciation to "pomfrit/помфрит"
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Here in Estonia we use "friikartulid" for French fries, "chips" as a loan word for dry round slices and "praekartulid" for any other type of fried potatoes.

And, "kartul" itself is also a loan word from German language. Germans originally brought potatoes here.
 
Argentum said:
And, "kartul" itself is also a loan word from German language. Germans originally brought potatoes here.
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German "kartoffel" also comes from Italian's "tartufolo", from the Latin "terrae tūber".

In Serbian "potato" is "krompir/кромпир", also loan from German "krommbeer", a dialect of German settlers in Pannonia plains.

With so much of inheritance talk, we could merge this thread with "Object Oriented Programming really an Advantage" 😁
 
I've been to many countries. But i think France has a good cuisine. When you go to a small village in the south of France you eat very well at a reasonable price.
But don't drink beer in Paris. Way to expensive.
 
stampot is considered a 'traditional' Dutch dish. But it obviously can't be as potatoes weren't a thing in the Netherlands until the 18th century :)

(How's that for a bridge? :D)
 
Alain De Vos said:
Crivens , this thread is spiraling in good direction. I had somewhat doubts for it :)
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IMO, no one here (all of us being in love with FreeBSD) gonna actually fight about "my country is better than yours" - that's for the losers; and besides, we are not discussing text editors here 😉

When I mentioned editors, we had one of the best text editors for ZX Spectrum, "Ekranski Editor" (by Vladimir Kostić), and while ex-Yugoslavia was a thing, the best mechanical keyboard for Spectrum – Slovenian made "Ines"
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Well, in US, we do have 'Fish and chips', which really means fried fish fillet with French Fries... and we're really loose with the very definition, there's 'classic' french fries from McDonald's, and then there's all kinds of spins on the idea:
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Alain De Vos said:
I always wondered is it healthy ? Is the oil good ?
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No, it's not healthy stuff by any stretch of imagination, mostly because of the oil requirement. Most of the time, people use cheap oil, and lots of it, to fry the potatoes, which is not healthy at all. Gotta limit oil intake, pay attention to which oil you're using, and then the dish gets expensive because of efforts like that. Some good oils go for $100 USD per liter, y'know.
 
Alain De Vos said:
I always wondered is it healthy ? Is the oil good ?
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astyle said:
No, it's not healthy stuff by any stretch of imagination, mostly because of the oil requirement. Most of the time, people use cheap oil, and lots of it, to fry the potatoes, which is not healthy at all. Gotta limit oil intake, pay attention to which oil you're using, and then the dish gets expensive because of efforts like that. Some good oils go for $100 USD per liter, y'know.
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Air Fryer FTW!!!
 
LoganGreystone said:
I am spanish, and I am neither proud nor ashamed of it.
The spanish empire "discovered" America, and I believe they tried to grant rights to the natives before other big colonies. But that does not mean they did not massacre people who did not have their technological level, nor that today most of the countries that were part of the spanish empire are poor (some very poor). When former mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked Spain for an apology for the conquest of America, I do not think someone with four spanish names should ask for apologize to Spain. He should apologize to the natives himself if he feels his ancestors mistreated the indigenous people.
And I do not like flamenco or paella, just as not all japaneses like manga or usamericans like firearms.
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I love Spanish Catholics, the first Europeans to set foot in the New World, where my country is located. My country created the best OS on Earth - FreeBSD.

Jesus commands me to love everyone else too, including my enemies.

I also like firearms. You would too if you lived in the Northern Rockies where wildlife (wolves, mountain lions, and bears) eat people alive.
 
LoganGreystone said:
And I do not like flamenco or paella, just as not all japaneses like manga or usamericans like firearms.
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Do you like the Jamon Iberico ? That stuff used to be illegal in US until 2008, due to concerns about swine fever. Those concerns stemmed from the fact that it takes a few years for the meat to age properly.

Also: Did anyone know that New York City actually had a ban on foie gras between 2019 and 2022?

Food and production methods can get plenty political, people!
 
astyle said:
Ummm... Columbus was merely sponsored by the Spanish crown, made 3 voyages, and he went kinda south of Florida each time... He wanted to reach India, got to Bahamas instead, and called the locals 'Indians' 😂
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The New World's bigger than Florida. And AI also asserts:
Christopher Columbus's crew on his first voyage included 87 men, with notable members such as Juan de la Cosa, who was the ship's master, and Luis de Torres, the interpreter. Most of the crew were experienced seamen from Spain, and only a few were convicts who took advantage of an amnesty offer.
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Wouldn't you insist on a majority Spanish crew if you were footing the bill? To ensure your funds remain within your domain, under your control?
 
DonK said:
AI proclaims:

Wouldn't you insist on a majority Spanish crew if you were footing the bill? Because it enables funds to remain within your own domain, under your control?
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Well, a careful re-reading of Wikipedia made me realize it was 4 voyages, rather than 3...

Oh, and Columbus merely got lucky with getting the Spanish crown to be his sponsor for the voyages - he tried his luck with England and Portugal, managed to negotiate a deal with Spain (who didn't want him going elsewhere), and Spain was merely a convenient location for sourcing the ship and the crew. Oh, and there was a lawsuit afterwards, claiming that the Spanish crown reneged on some of the terms, and that litigation went on for 200 years.

I'd recommend Wikipedia over AI at this point - mostly because Wikipedia does have actual human volunteers doing the research and quoting of sources. AI scrapers do have a tendency to be a bit naive about deciding if a source is worthwhile for analysis and summarization. If a source is from a pubicly viewable blogger, what kind of credibility does that blogger/content farm have? Especially after I debunked one earlier in this thread?
 
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