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Anon thinks the French are posers (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] oce@jlai.lu 24 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

Nobody in France calls French fries or French toast "French". We're definitely happy to attribute the fries to our Belgian friends and nobody thinks something as ubiquitous as toasts could have a single inventor. I think those are Anglo-Saxon cultural elements.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Also here we call it "cafetière à piston" not french press.

[–] olosta@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

No we are not attributing fries to the Belgian, fries are french. The Belgian improved on our invention and make the best fries, but Frenchs invented it.

Content warning, a lot of french: https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond?view=article&id=132:la-veritable-histoire-de-la-frite&catid=77:articles-fond

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

As a Belgian, this is my position as well. Fries is part of the Belgian culinary culture, but it's chauvinism to claim they were invented in Belgium.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Like the espresso, invented by the French (express or exprés? nobody knows which one it was, but making 1 little cup at a time was new and fast), then the Italians improved it, especially with gruppo 61, group head 61. Now they have the best coffee 😔

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

FIY: French toast is the english name for pain perdu.

Also probably not "invented" by the French, but no one thinks they invented simple toast.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

No idea what a French press is. Probably a cafetière ?

[–] Irremarkable@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago

Seems to be one and the same

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Who the hell calls it a French press, I've never heard anyone call it that.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I never knew there was a different name for it. The cafetière is a new one on me, and I did French in high school. Guess we weren't talking about coffee much, though apparently french fries came up enough for me to remember pommes frites (they probably don't fry apples much over there).

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Some fruits can be fried in the form of "beignets", which is fruit covered with batter and then fried. Apples are traditionally the most popular beignet recipe I think: "beignets aux pommes".

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pommes de terre frites or patates frites

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Or just 'frites'

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Most commonly, yes, just frites. Was just saying that pommes frites wasn't exactly right

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The US calls everything "French" because they think it'll sell better.