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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you like your french fries to be naked or with something on the top of them? Edited worded wrong
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(52,600 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,876 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Siwsan
(26,369 posts)And sometimes I do like to dip them in Mayo.
debm55
(25,801 posts)Ocelot II
(116,130 posts)I don't want to get salt and grease on my boobs, so I always have something on top.
debm55
(25,801 posts)Dulcinea
(6,716 posts)But, to answer your question, I like my fries with ketchup in most settings. However, at the Potato Patch at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin PA (perhaps you're familiar with it!) I get cheese & garlic salt. My dad loved them with gravy.
A friend of mine likes fries with mayo. I know that's very European, but...GROSS! (I can't stand mayonnaise.)
debm55
(25,801 posts)Dulcinea
(6,716 posts)jimfields33
(16,313 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)CanonRay
(14,167 posts)Vinegar is sometimes ok.
debm55
(25,801 posts)But sometimes I like a little bit of Grey Poupon mustard on them. I NEVER use ketchup. It changes the flavor of fries completely. To me.
debm55
(25,801 posts)But then I dip them in ketchup as I eat them. Putting ketchup on top makes them soggy, and I like mine very crisp!
debm55
(25,801 posts)I get a lot of looks and the occasional night in jail.
debm55
(25,801 posts)Dear_Prudence
(430 posts)I like fries with malt vinegar or ketchup or just salt, which might explain why I am in a weight loss group (no drugs, just the exercise program of pushing away from the table). We are visiting Canada in the fall so maybe I'll WALK to a bistro and try fries with gravy.
debm55
(25,801 posts)dchill
(38,675 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Lunabell
(6,152 posts)With salt and a heavy dose of fresh ground black pepper.
debm55
(25,801 posts)I'm gonna have to have this!!
debm55
(25,801 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,830 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,155 posts)Ive also been known to use mustard or mayo.
debm55
(25,801 posts)ShepKat
(383 posts)oh, the looks I get ! I asked in one place and the waitress serving us, upon asking for tartar sauce said incredibly dryly... 'There is nothing we serve that takes tartar sauce'. I said apparently there is because you have french fries and I want tartar sauce ! that along with my medium rare arriving well done - no tip. She was not respectful.
debm55
(25,801 posts)ShepKat
(383 posts)thanks- but I'm old and put in all the time the young waitress is going to have to deal with. Sucks to be her lol Good luck, kid !
AllaN01Bear
(19,082 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Niagara
(7,819 posts)In all seriousness, it's extremely rare that I eat french fries but when I do ...those fries are homemade and in a small serving size and lightly salted with pink Himalayan salt.
I can't eat french fries from a restaurant.
debm55
(25,801 posts)AnnaLee
(1,043 posts)That's why I never eat them. The memory of days when they were perfect is good enough.
debm55
(25,801 posts)jimfields33
(16,313 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Freddie
(9,295 posts)MUST be Heinz.
a kennedy
(29,842 posts)Will NEVER eat the, as I call them wrinkly fries, only straight fries. But Ill tell ya, its sure way to gain some lbs eating them with Mayo. Now, I will only have fries may-be once a month and every OTHER time Ill order the Mayo dipping sauce.
debm55
(25,801 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(5,887 posts)Rarely I might dip in ketchup
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(25,801 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,318 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Probatim
(2,576 posts)A good parallel thread would be "what do you like on Popcorn?" For me, it's pretty much the same, except with an embarrassing amount of butter.
debm55
(25,801 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,523 posts)Any other kind get ketchup, apple cider vinegar or cheese.
debm55
(25,801 posts)LoisB
(7,283 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)LoisB
(7,283 posts)coprolite
(191 posts)with mayo on the side.
debm55
(25,801 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)Hotler
(11,520 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)RainCaster
(10,980 posts)I'm in the UK this week, and that seems to be a thing over here. It's not bad.
debm55
(25,801 posts)AKwannabe
(5,697 posts)Sea salt preferably
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(25,801 posts)Jeebo
(2,045 posts)I hate ketchup. Potatoes have a flavor. It's a wonderful flavor. Why cover it up? I love that potato-ey flavor and I want to experience it. Too often that wonderful potato-ey flavor gets cooked out of French fries, as well as baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, tater tots, au gratin potatoes, potato sticks, potato chips, there are a million ways to cook potatoes, and whenever I eat potatoes in any form, I always want to experience that wonderful potato-ey flavor. I have visited Belgium twice. In that country they dip their fries not in ketchup, but in mayonnaise. I hate ketchup, but I love mayonnaise, so I tried my fries that way. Incidentally, I think Belgium is actually the origin country of French fries, not France. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about that. But in this country, I eat my French fries bare-ass naked. I mean the fries are bare-ass naked, not me. Sorry about the unintentional imagery.
-- Ron
debm55
(25,801 posts)Elessar Zappa
(14,176 posts)French fries covered in NM green chile sauce, cheese, and chopped onions. Dang, now Im hungry!
debm55
(25,801 posts)underpants
(183,182 posts)Actually A-1 steak sauce on thicker fries.
Normally ketchup and mustard.
debm55
(25,801 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,590 posts)McDonald's fries, naked.
For thicker fries (crinkle or steak fries) I like A-1 or Heintz 57 sauce.
I don't eat fries a lot, but when I do those are my preferred ways.
debm55
(25,801 posts)Emile
(23,369 posts)prefer a little salt and ketchup on the side to dip.
debm55
(25,801 posts)ailsagirl
(22,923 posts)There's ketchup on the burger, so there's ketchup on the french fries. Delicious.
But once per year only
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(25,801 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,252 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)retread
(3,769 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)LeonidPlanck
(108 posts)No ketchup or fancy aioli for me, and I prefer them baked as I shy away from deep-fried food.
Debm55, are you profiling DUers with these questions?
debm55
(25,801 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)It was a joke! The Lounge has always been a place for DUers to decompress from GD and LBN, but its also a place to reveal yourself.
If I were to mine data, this paradigm is the way Id do it.
debm55
(25,801 posts)the bottom of my heart for thinking you were that kind of poster.
LeonidPlanck
(108 posts)In fact. No worries!
Different Drummer
(7,699 posts)debm55
(25,801 posts)ForgedCrank
(1,800 posts)a good one in the chamber but then I realized how late I was for this one.
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(25,801 posts)dameatball
(7,411 posts)debm55
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